This past weekend, the girls and I all travelling to Edinburgh, Scotland. I've been there once before, when we stopped there on our way to Venice to go meet the cruise ship two summers ago. All I remember about the city was that it was beautiful and green and had a pretty castle and that Annica fell in love with Scottish people as a whole. Pretty funny actually. This time, we all booked a tour group with Anderson Tours because we figured that it would be easier to travel to a new place if we had someone to plan everything for us. So, we left from the King's Cross Station with the rest of our tour group at 8am on Friday morning, made it all the way up into Ediburgh around 1pm that afternoon, went on a guided coach (bus) ride around the city, and then were taken to our hotel to check in for the weekend.
Now, the Peace and Love Hostel in Paris that Ann and I stayed at was pretty good (for a hostel), but this was a real hotel! It was pretty nice to have a big room, with people that you already know, a big bathroom with towels provided, and yummy yummy breakfast every morning we stayed there (complete with HAGGIS...ew.).
After resting a bit at the hotel, we all got up and dressed to go out in downtown Edinburgh for dinner and a few pints at a local pub that Bridget had read about online. It was a nice place, just what you might imagine a Scottish pub to be like. Lots of students actually, because the University of Edinburgh is right nearby - so there were both a lot of Scottish students, as well as International students who study there as well.
Saturday morning we woke up, ate YUMMY breakfast (eggs, sausage, ham, HAGGIS, toast, little mini pancakes, and coffee), and then went out for the day to explore the city a bit. We wandered around for awhile, and then managed to find our way up to the Edinburgh Castle which is a pretty neat site to see there. Then, we were pretty tired after all our walking around so we caught a bus back to our hotel and napped for a bit before getting ready to go back downtown for dinner. After a delicious FISH&CHIPS dinner (my first time eating that here actually), we hung out at the pub for awhile, and then came home to sleep.
Sunday was just spent packing and then grabbing some food for the train ride home. We all had enjoyed Scotland, but I think we just wanted to get back home to London as quickly as possible. I love London the best.
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Awesome, the picture in front of the castle is amazing, the castle that is. Pam and I just got back from South Lake Tahoe, we had a conference there, I did a presentation. South Lake Tahoe is equally as amazing as Edenborough or London really, I mean, it has, well really smoky old casinos with stupid old people gambling, and they have a lake that is really big, and well, polluted, but not so bad. Best of all, our room at Harrah's had two toilets in it, now that's worth writing home about. And no fantastic breakfast, but they did have a Starbucks . . . yes, we had a fantastic time there. We are going away for a few days, though, this week, to Mendocino, staying in Elk at a place right on the coast, kind of secluded, for our anniversary. Well, that's it, thanks for the posting, what a fantastic trip!! I want to be in school again and do a semester abroad. Dad
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