Goodbye Wiston, hello London

Alright folks, the nearly month-long post drought is over. Last week I left Wiston Lodge after a month there. It was a great month, and I'll have a lot of good memories.

From Wiston, I took a bus to Aberdeen, which is a very cool city, with loads of interesting granite buildings. I had about two hours there (enough to walk most of downtown) before catching an overnight ferry to the Shetland Islands, the northernmost part of the UK. Shetland is renowned for beautiful shorelines, geology, and archaeology. I spent a couple days hiking the sea shore (pictured above) and visited a 4000-year old archaeology site.

Above is a tombolo, a sand and shell beach connecting two pieces of land. You walk across the beach from the mainland to get on this island inhabited only by sheep. The weather was pretty incredible too (although windy).

I had originally planned to spend a few more days there, but most of the lodging on the outer isles was already closed for winter, so I decided to go ahead and go to London, where I am now.

I've just been walking around the city a ton and bingeing on museums, which are free (!) here. Yesterday, I went to the British Museum (home of the Rosetta Stone and a bajillion other cool things), the National Gallery (home to a pretty exhaustive collection of western art from 1300-1900), and the national portrait gallery, which has, well, a lot of portraits, some of which are pretty cool.

I also ran across this little gem:

Yes I ate there, and yes it was good.

I head to Rome on Monday. After that...who knows!