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Sunday Roast, Reservations Recommended
I almost missed my first proper Sunday roast in Scotland because of a sign in a restaurant window. Or maybe the sign is exactly what started it. I was walking through town when I spotted a wooden easel outside the restaurant advertising Sunday roast reservations. Not just “Sunday lunch,” but a real roast —…
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Outlander Adventure Tour
I’m a huge Outlander fan. It started when a friend gave me the book by Diana Gabaldon, what seems like a lifetime ago. The show wasn’t even a twinkle in the producer’s eye LOL. When I arrived in Scotland, back in December this was a must-do for me. Especially because I started off in…
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It Wasn’t the Noise That Bothered Me
This morning, a bird started knocking on my door. Not metaphorically. Literally. Knock, knock, knock, knock, knock. So of course I looked. Because… what? And for a second, I had that thought:“Opportunity is knocking.” Cute, right? Except it wasn’t. I opened the door to see what it was doing, and it turns out—it was…
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Sometimes Healing Doesn’t Look Like Healing
I didn’t come here looking to heal. I came to travel.To see new places.To experience something different. And somehow, somewhere in the middle of that,I found myself standing in front of a field of cows,watching them exist so completely unbotheredthat it stopped me in my tracks. Another day, it was the water. A loch…
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They Blended In—Until They Didn’t
I Almost Didn’t See Them We were driving through the Highlands—just following the road as it curved through the landscape, not really looking for anything in particular. And then something shifted. Not obvious. Not dramatic. Just… enough to catch my attention. “Wait… there’s deer.” They matched everything around them—the color of the grass, the…
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The Loch Didn’t Just Reflect—It Revealed
I Didn’t See Just One Loch I saw them in pieces. From a moving car.From the side of the road.From a distance that made them feel still… even when I wasn’t. And each time, it looked a little different. Different lochs.Different reflections. And still… something about them felt connected. Like the same truth, showing…
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I Wandered Around the Corner…and found Heilan Coos
Highland cows, something Scotland is well known for. Something on my bucket list to see while here. Only, I didn’t go looking for them. No plan. No pinned location. No “must-see” moment. I just walked around the corner. And there they were—laid out in the field like they had nowhere else to be and…
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Crock-O-Dough Dundee
The Creation of Mac Dough It started in a freezing cold kitchenon the fourth floor of a flat in Dundee,with the River Tay just outside like it had something to sayand I wasn’t quite sure yet if I was listening. I had always wanted to try making sourdough.It had been one of those “one…
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And Then There Was Gingy…
GINGY THE GINGER BUG Bonjour, Bitches. Not everything begins quietly. Some things arrive with a presence. Gingy was one of those. She wasn’t born in Dundee like Mac Dough,in a cold kitchen where patience was required just to survive. No. Gingy was born in Tayport.In a warmer, better-equipped kitchen.The kind of place where things…