Scotland

I was scrolling through posts in a Facebook group for female travelers the other day, when I came across one posted by a woman...

I remember when my mom first told me about the “Outlander” books. I was in college, I think, and we shared an interest in...

Most people know that Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland. But the Scottish Lowlands may as well be a different country entirely from...

A long time ago, the city of Edinburgh was known as “Auld Reekie.” This was back in the days of peat fire smog, overpopulation,...

So far in my travels I have visited roughly 1/4 of all the countries in the world. That's both a lot and hardly any...

The wind was whipping across the hilltop with such force that it was the only sound I could hear. I imagined that maybe I could hear...

If you had asked me two months ago about my favorite part of Scotland, I would not have hesitated to tell you about how...

I remember when I was first introduced to Harry Potter. I was about 13 years old, in Miss Barkett's 7th-grade English class, and we...

Sing me a song of a lad that is gone, Say, could that lad be I? Merry of soul he sailed on a day...

It doesn't really matter how many times I've been to moody Glencoe or seen the shores of Loch Ness or taken photos of Eilean Donan...

I shared my very first passport stamp with my mom 10 years ago. First passports. First trip outside of North America. First passport stamps. For...

Over the past 6 months or so, I have fallen in love. Not with a person, though, but with a place. And that place...

Once upon a time, in the Scottish village of Kyleakin, there lived a Norwegian princess. This princess was not a Cinderella or a Sleeping...

My legs were cold. Very cold, in fact. So cold that I could no longer feel them. The numbness pangs were making me giddy....

Ahead of me, there is just a sea of flickering flames. Behind me, the same. Fire as far as the eye can see. And...

I wrote earlier this year that August is the best time to be in Edinburgh, Scotland, thanks to all the festivals taking place during...

Despite weather that can change in an instant and a pricey British pound, there sure are a lot of things to love about the country...