Posted on 07/14/2008 8:27:07 AM PDT by Renfield
When my wife, Dinah, and I accepted a commission to write a guidebook about family travel in Scotland we had visions of staring moodily across tree-lined lochs, introducing art to our two-year-old daughter, Phoebe, in countless galleries, growing to appreciate the squeak and bellow of pipe bands and maybe even the savoury intricacies of regional haggis. And our son, Charlie, was only six weeks old. He would be easy.
Covering 4,000 miles, and assessing 60 hotels, 70 restaurants and more than 300 attractions for their child-friendliness, our Scottish travels would be a great contrast to our normal working lives — writing novels (me) and often dry travel-technology articles (Dinah). And although friends counselled against the idea of taking two under-threes on the road, we decided that in later years, when they were broadminded, implausibly well-rounded adults, they would thank us....
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Wonderful. Definitely worth the read.
From the ramparts of Doune Castle, the setting for Monty Python and the Holy Grail, we shouted: “I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelled of elderberries”.
One day I will make it to Scotland and I will do this exact same thing. My daughter laughs at my “I fart in your general direction” tshirt, but she won’t once we are there.
I've been there a couple of times. That t-shirt will probably be covered by a heavy sweater and a raincoat on your eventual trip to Scotland, based on my experience. :0)
Very sweet. Brings back a lot of memories that didn’t seem so wonderful at the time, but do now. I recall times when we seemed to have to bring an entire tractor-trailer load full of things to absorb the babies’ various leakings, drippings, spewings, and flowings of various bodily products.
for later
Travelling with two. They’re pikers. ;)
Nothing that a little whiskey on the gums wouldn’t take care of.
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