Old World New World

I wish I could post pictures, have some sweet ones already. I don't have my computer yet and the fedex said it'd be another 5 days, $£*%:) Anyways, because of the festival that is going on the entire month, and the fact that we can't get into our apartment till the middle of next week, we're staying in different places each night. Every hotel, B&B or hostel or completely booked right now.....the cheapest we've found so far is nothing under $200/night! That's insane....so after a number of calls outside the city, we found a B&B in a town called Rosslyn about 45 minutes oustide the city. Again, pictures are so needed right now, but it was this adorable little house with the sweetest scottish woman I dubbed Grandma Buchanen. We could only stay for an evening, which was quite lovely.
We stumbled upon two things in this tiny little town:
1) It was home of the Rosslyn Church, which if anyone was into the DaVinci Code like I wasn't, would know that it was one of the church's where they discovered who the holy blood line was.....anyways, Tom Hanks had been there filming the movie obviously and the tourism has gone crazy since then....thank goodness for really bad popular movies. The Church was amazing, built in the 15th century and still barely standing due to time and ravages of past conflicts....it's held together by scaffolding
2) This town is where Dolly the sheep was cloned....we all remember this a few years back? I guess it's a state-of-the-art facility in this tiny town that is now controversially in the process of human cloning and stem-cell research.

It's amazing how this small town in Scotland has so much connection to the past and present. I've always marvelled at this very deep connection one feels to thousands of years of history in cities all over Europe....it's a sensation I can't quite describe, and one of the reasons I love this city of Edinburgh and Europe so much. I'll have much much more to say about this idea of recognition of the past later...

Anyways, we stay in the next door neighbors to Grandma Buchanen tonight since she couldn't house us anymore.....these are great times and the Lord is blessing us with great hospitality, places to stay and wonderful conversations about why we're here.