It is day two of my Scottish adventure! I flew into Edinburgh airport from Dublin on Aer Lingus yesterday with my family and rented a minivan to drive right up through the beautiful Cairngorms National Park on the A9 road to Inverness. It had been 36 hours since we had all slept by that point, so I napped for the majority of the way in the backseat as we drove through. However, when we arrived in Inverness, all eyes were bright and eager to see the town known as the capital of the Highlands. We decided to first find the accommodation we would be staying at. As we are a family of four with three girls (much to my Dad’s patience and grey hairs) we need our space and decided that renting a cottage with three bedrooms and two full bathrooms through AirBnB was our best course of action. We…
Life is For Living – The Story
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Riley Stefano
Hi, I’m Riley! I am a freelance writer based in Boston. I was born and raised in Plymouth, MA, American’s beautiful hometown, therefore designating…
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John Steinbeck exposed the beauty of the Amalfi Coast in Italy to the tourist world when he wrote an article in 1952 in Harper’s…
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The Motherland: Visiting My Roots on the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland
The month of March has been all about exploring the beautiful country I have been living in for the past two months. I’ve had…