Schlepping

Now, I don’t know if this is a real word or not but it’s a word that Stephen and I use to describe some of our travel adventures that involve hauling our luggage from Point A to Point B. During this past week, we schlepped far more than usual. We left Paris on Thursday December 3rd (a day after arriving from the US), we were in Cheltenham on Friday, Bloxom on Saturday, to St. Andrews on Sunday, Edinburgh on Monday and back to Cheltenham on Tuesday, then to Paris on Wednesday . Hence the schlepping,,,
Here are some photos of our recent "schlepping" experience.
 
Stephen actually rented a car to drive from Birmingham, to Cheltenham, then to Bloxham to visit Suzie and Mike, back to Cheltenham and then to the airport again in Birmingham.  I don't have any pictures of the driving.... I was too busy navigating the motorways and roundabouts.
This photo was taken at the Falkland Arms pub where we had lunch with Suzie and Mike and Nicholas and Catherine.  We had a lovely visit with everyone...
 

 
 
Then it was time to fly to Edinburgh for our trip to St. Andrews.  This picture doesn't really do justice to the room we had at the Old Course Hotel.  You can only see half of the room - very spacious, very posh
 

 This was the view from our room....the 17th fairway

As I took a walk into town, this is how close the path came to the 17th green.  In the background, you can see a large, reddish building.  This is Kohler Co.'s latest acquisition.

Here's a close-up of Hamilton Hall.  The building is empty and is in disrepair.  It might be turned into fractional ownership apartments.  The 18th green is directly in front of the building.

Here I am standing in front of the 18th green.  You can see the Old Course Hotel in the background.

Stephen and I having a pub dinner at the Jigger Inn

Then it was time to continue our schlep, back to Cheltenham.  It was very relaxing having drivers at both ends instead of having to worry about the driving.  Not that Stephen didn't do a great job driving...  but it was dark and raining and the signs would have been hard to read...

Here's where we stayed in Cheltenham.  There's a lovely shopping district in the town and I was happy to browse the many shops while Stephen was at work..

Inside the hotel

And this last picture is for Zosia, who is always interested in flower arrangements