Travels and Highlights

This past week we traveled with my parents to the Lakes area in Northwest England. We didn't stay long on this trip but we are going back this week with Bethany's parents. We did see Windermure Lake, one of the main attractions and ate at a small cafe there. It was raining on us that day. The lake was beautiful. It sits in the valley between high hills.
After dinner at the cafe, we traveled on to Carlisle, England and stayed in a bed and breakfast there owned and operated by the parents of one of our young Whitefield members. Carlisle is an historic town that was the northern border of the Roman Empire at its height of imperial expansion. In fact, a wall was constructed across the town to keep out northern invaders - who I guess would be the Scots, the Norweigans and other Scandinavians. The next day we went to Edinburgh, Scotland and toured the Castle and walked part of the Royal Mile. The castle was amazing. In that fortress was a chapel built in the 1100's.
This grand castle is built high up on a rock hill and the city has grown around it. I stood looking at this monstrous construction trying to imagine how they built it without the modern machinery we use.
We spent one night in Edinburgh. On the second and last day we saw the palace of Holyrood, where Mary Queen of Scots lived and where to Royal family still comes to vacation. Adjoining the palace are the ruins of an abbey where Roman Catholic monks lived many centuries ago. This was one of Bethany's favorite spaces. Finally we saw the University of Edinburg. I wanted to see it because one of my favorite professors at Lon Morris College was Scottish and received all her degrees through her PhD there. Madeleine Ross is her name.
There is much much more to share about this trips and many pictures. I will try to post some pictures here as soon as I figure out how to do that. Bethany's parents visit this week and we are going back to the Lakes area and to Edinburgh to see more of these places.