we went to edinburgh, scotland this summer! it was beatrix’s first country outside the united states and canada, and she really loved it! traveling with a young baby definitely changed our pace, but it was really nice to have a change of scenery after a number of months at home. we learned that edinburgh has a rich medical history on a very cool walking tour of some of the city’s medicine related sites, which was a birthday gift to me from ann! we also had a very nice afternoon tea at the bonham hotel, where we stayed for one night, and even saw a celebrity there. the other nights we stayed in some dorms at the university of edinburgh, and spent some good time relaxing on the “meadows,” beneath which is a burial ground of tens of thousands of the city’s residents who died during the bubonic plague. mostly we just walked around the city, which was a lot of fun!