bonny scotland

When planning this world tour, we were worried about running into poor weather on most of our stops. So far, we've been amazingly lucky. We avoided the rain in Thailand, picked up some fine, clear days in China, had perfect weather in Germany for a hike around the Black Forrest, and even fared well in London.

Today in Scotland we had our first sub-zero (Celcius) night since leaving New Zealand. The sun is shining, the land is beautiful, but the air is cold. I think we have to accept winter is here, and we're not going to be traveling out of it. (It's too bad - New Zealand is nice this time of year).

So far we've toured around Glasgow, Aberdeen, Edinburgh. We rented a car yesterday and are now wandering up the Scottish east coast. Our lunch stop today on the banks of a Loch has free Internet, something I haven't often seen on the travels.