My adventures continued this weekend with a trip to Edinburgh, Scotland. Between hearing how great of a place it is to how it's "just another city" my expectations weren't that high. Turns out, Edinburgh exceeded my expectations! Plus, on our way there we saw a rainbow over the Scottish countryside. Our hotel was right on Princes Street, where a large majority of the action is, and everything was withing walking distance.
Our first night there we had some dinner at the Standing Order which was good and cheap and then made our way to the City of the Dead tour. The tour ended up being too expensive for some of us so while two of the girls did the tour the rest of us headed to find some pubs. On our way we found The Elephant House cafe which is where J.K Rowling started writing Harry Potter. We took pics and chatted with one of the girls that worked there. Needless to say, one of the boys took a liking to her. He then wouldn't shut up about her for the rest of the trip even though she told him she was seventeen and he was filling every American stereotype. We were so embarrassed.
Next we found a pub/club called Frankenstein. This place turned out to be a blast and had the coolest bouncer ever. He let me in with my railcard because I didn't bring my passport with, for fear of losing it, and all I had to do was tell him my "star sign". Dancing and drinking ensued and we met a couple Scottish people after miss Brittany knocked a glass to the floor and it shattered in their "dance circle" . One was named Himish which made me laugh a little.
We were then off to meet up with the girls who went on the tour. While waiting for them a drunk, possibly homeless, man approached two members of our group who were across the street. They sent him our way and he asked for Collin and Sarah. Collin fessed up to being himself while Brittany said, "Um it's actually Sierra and Collin and I are engaged!" and took the rap for me... literally. This man proceeded to "freestyle" about Collin and "Sierra" and the only word we could understand was "reality" which he said over and over. We ran away pretty quickly and finally the girls showed up and one of the guys and I headed back to the hotel while everyone else went clubbing.
The next day we climbed a volcano called "Arthur's Seat" and the view was AMAZING and crazy windy! On our way up we came upon a green patch where people had written messages out of stones so we decided that since it was September 11th we would write USA 9-11. It turned out pretty neat. I can't really say much about this because I can't really put it into words. What I can say is that I am still feeling the soreness today!
Later on Saturday we hopped a train to North Berwick to see the North Sea. It was freezing but we went in a bit anyways. This place was beautiful and I wish we could have spent more time there.
Sunday morning we headed home with stops at Hadrian's Wall, which isn't much of a wall anymore being 1900 years old, and Durham. At this point I just wanted to get home so I didn't enjoy them as much as I maybe could have.
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| The view from the top of Arthur's Seat |
Scotland Photo link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2827591&id=8643848&l=bd943c97d2
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