October 2022
From Rome, Cooper traveled to Greece, Ireland, Scotland, and Bulgaria.
Greece
Heading back from Corinth right now. We had a philosophy lecture while we watched the sunset across the sea and mountains. Athens was incredible too. The Parthenon was so cool.
In addition to the Parthenon and the Acropolis we saw the Erechtheion and the Theater of Dionysus.
Rome
I visited the Pantheon yesterday along with three other Marian churches. So beautiful. Pantheon was even more impressive than I imagined.
Ireland and Scotland
We explored Galway all day and will go to the Cliffs of Moher.
Hey it's going well, we've been in Dublin for a few hours now. We went to Trinity College and walked around. We're heading to the hostel for tonight slowly but surely. I have some great pictures from yesterday that I'm excited to send once I settle in tonight.
Heading to Scotland this morning. We're doing an awesome tour tomorrow to Loch Ness, Glen Coe, and the Scottish Highlands.
We're going to the royal botanical gardens and national scottish museum tomorrow. Then off to Glasgow. I really like Edinburgh though so I think we're gonna delay our bus a little bit until the late afternoon so we can do everything we want to see here. The churches have been cool too but they're all Protestant and actually have a completely different feeling to them. Almost secular in a strange way. Hard to explain but I do have some evidence for why I think that.
We slept in a good bit today and then walked across the city, got some food, and ended up at the Glasgow Cathedral. That was pretty cool. Right next to it was a pretty impressive cemetery called the Glasgow Necropolis. We walked through that for a little while and then made our way to city center again. Glasgow doesn't have much to do. It was a good trip but this was kind of a disappointment. All the art they have is super modern.
Loch Ness, Scotland
Sophia, Bulgaria
Bulgaria has been beautiful and so much fun. We're going to a couple more churches and then getting dinner and then going to see what else to do at night. In the morning were going to do a hike which is just outside the city up to a waterfall. Super excited.
