My husband and I just returned from a trip to the UK. We visited Burford, England in the Cotswolds and then drove north to Scotland. There is a very nice quilting store in Edinburgh called Edinburgh Patchwork. It has a good selection of fabric including fabric that isn't available in the United States. It also has very nice owners who welcome visitors as if they were neighbors. If you go on Wednesdays you can bring some work to sew on and chat with the ladies who also come on Wednesdays.
We got caught in the side swipe of Scotland by the hurricane, tropical storm that ran over Ireland on its way northeast. Very high winds made walking hazardous and on our drive back down to Heathrow we saw several large trucks overturn. Ironic that we had to go to Scotland to run into a hurricane. On a similar weather note, both of us were completely astonished at the skies of northern England and Scotland. Montana is called Big Sky country but I have never seen bigger skies than in the UK. They show that John Constable was not using artistic license when he painted his landscapes.
Other than the hurricane the weather was unusually dry so we got to spend some time hiking in the woods and climbing to the top of Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh. We also went to a beach in Scotland to see the Irish Sea. My husband never did get to try mushy peas but we both tried and liked haggis.
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