St Andrew’s is so beautiful, but so is all of Scotland really! My son currently has his eye on going to ‘uni’ at St. Andrews!

Thanks Reeta! YES the sun has been SPARSE lately. I’m ready for a good three or four day stretch, but we’ll have to settle for just a sliver here and there. 🙂 And of course, when I’m on my computer, I have the sun lamp right next to my face. 🙂

Thanks much, Ashley! It so depends. It’s so expensive to fly to Europe that before we moved here we decided that one of us would take each child when they turned 13 as sort of a milestone trip, which has turned out to be a great age. They are old enough to walk far, appreciate some things a bit more, sit and wait for things, etc but they are not yet (completely) embarrassed to be seen with you in public. 🙂 I love taking Simon and Ben places now (ages 7 and 12) but of course, if we didn’t live here, we couldn’t jet off to a European city for the day. 🙂 I took all three of my boys to Memphis last year though for a couple of days and we weaved in some culture with a trip to the zoo. I thought it worked great. Loads of blog posts about our milestone trips with our kids in the archives. Taido and Cole went to Switzerland, while MP and I went on a Medi Cruise. LOVED. EVERY. MINUTE. 🙂

How very fun! It’s SUCH a wonderful city. I’m sure you’re enjoying it so much.

I do love it a lot! Would be happy to meet you there sometime!:)

It is a nice change! The train ride is about 2.5 hours.