CasaPope: Easter Break

Growing up in the US, the phrase, "Spring Break" was loaded with meaning. It wasn't just a week long break from school, or a week on the beach, it was a way to immortalize your year. Your mind chronicles it as "Spring Break '98!" etcetera. It's how you remembered that year, albeit you likely didn't remember that spring break itself in its entirety. MTV paid tribute to it for multiple weeks by chronicling the spring breaks of thousands of kids/students across the country. Spring Break Daytona, Spring Break Lake Havasu (?) come to mind. Lets not forget that our beloved South Padre Island from our childhood was trivialized into a simple "SPI." Granted, I never participated in the debauchery that were these rites of passages, nor do I regret it, but that's not what this post is about.

In Scotland there is no such thing as "Spring Break." Instead we have a 2-week-long EASTER BREAK!!!!!!! Not sure it has the same ring to it or connotation, but such are the ways of the Scots, and the Brits for that matter. Always polite, proper, and solemn.

So what does the Pope Clan do for EASTER BREAK 2014!??!?!?!

Not much.

Castles are the business of the day, as they are most every other weekend in Scotland, especially when you have whole transport systems and carriageways devoted to a thing called The Castle Trail.