This past week we spent bumming around Edinburgh in Scotland. It was a very last minute decision to head there from Newcastle (us? last minute travellers? no! ha) and, when we decided the night before to book a bus there, we soon realized that there was NO accomodation in the city. Yup, we accidently booked our trip for the middle of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. So, this drove us to our first actual encounter with Couchsurfing.com. Yup, we stayed with strangers on their couch (sorry dad!). It actually worked out perfect. The boys we stayed with were great and showed us around the city. They even had a spare room for Laura and I to share! We went to a different show everyday. We saw comedy, plays and dancing. They were all spectacular but one....which presented
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