The Wandering Enginerds

It took all of 30 minutes for me to fall in love with Edinburgh.  The gorgeous weather and fall colors probably helped, but the city has amazing architecture, lots of rolling hills, the sea in the distance, pristine parks all over the place, good food, and a rich history making it hard not to like.  I was constantly snapping pictures all day.  After 8 days of being no more than 1 foot away from each other while road tripping through Iceland, Doug and I explored Edinburgh separately and just hit all the sites in differing order.  We were staying in the Grassmarket area which seems to be a hip and foodie section of town just off the hill from the Edinburgh Castle and only a street off the Royal Mile (the main drag).  The city isn't big and can be walked in a few hours.  It is clear the people here are proud of their heritage as the Scottish flag flies everywhere and is much more abundant than the Great Britain flag.  There are several high vantage points around the city - Edinburgh

Back at it again in the Land of Fire and Ice! Well, not really much to do with fire going on in Iceland besides the lava fields and geothermal areas as their volcanoes haven't erupted in a few years, but there was plenty of ice to be seen for us adventurers. I'll preface the entire blog by saying our Iceland experience was jaded by going to Norway and Iguazu Falls in Argentina already so some of my opinions would be much different had we hit Iceland first. Overall we thought Iceland was cool, but quite overrated.  If anyone wants our itinerary I have it saved with comments and ratings of things we hit along the way and I'd be happy to pass it along. A quick list of some Icelandic suffixes for reference:  - "-foss" means falls or waterfall  - "-kirkja" means church  - "-vatn" means lake  - "-jökull " means glacier Also, the Ring Road that I'll mention is the main highway that links the main cities and makes a loop aroun