Blogs from Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 25

Traveling by train in Europe is so easy. Its simple and if you do get lost just ask someone and they will be happy to help. Everyone I've asked for help has been so kind. After Robin Hoods vilage I went to Edinburgh, you don't pronounce the g, if you do people will think your slow. I'm not sure if they will actually think your're slow but whatever. The first night i was there just relaxed. The first full day I was there i went to Edinburgh castle, which was kinda disapointing because they had so much closed off so you couldn't see much of the castle. But it was still very cool. And I decided that if a zombie apocalypse happens or a simalr situation occured I would take shelter in a castle, why, because ... read more

Our trip to Scotland was short, sweet and extremely wet. Then again you probably can't consider it a complete trip to Scotland unless it rains. Our Scottish trip was really a spur-of-the-moment thing as we were visiting my brother in the Manchester area and just decided to make a quick trip out of it. We left Manchester really late at night and did not make it to EDINBURGH until about two in the morning. Obviously it was pitch dark, but every now and again in the car's headlights we saw plenty of green and a lot of sheep. Edinburgh was just a charmer from the start since we drove around for a while trying to find our hotel - the Hudson Hotel. The hotel was very conveniently located to pretty much everything so we were happy ... read more

August 12 We started our day with a hearty home-cooked breakfast to fuel our hike up Arthur’s Seat. The summit is 250 m high and the sun sure was beating down on us as we hiked up! The climb was well worth it as we enjoyed phenomenal city and water views, as well as a lunch on the top. We then descended and climbed the second peak to get some other perspectives of the view. Much to Bryan’s dismay, we then took in Palace of Holyroodhouse which is right next to Arthur’s Seat and at the opposite end of the Royal Mile from the Edinburgh Castle. This Palace is the official residence of the Monarch of the U.K. in Scotland; the Queen spends one week here at the beginning of each summer carrying out official engagements ... read more

August 10 We hoofed it back to the train station and headed for the airport. Off to Edinburgh! Some of you may not know that Hanna spent a school year here when she and Bryan first met. After refreshing and refueling we began to explore. It just so happened that it was the Edinburgh Fringe Festival - along with a handful of other festivals - which is the world’s largest arts festival. Needless to say the city was absolute madness. It is said that the population of Edinburgh triples during the festival which is pretty impressive since there are over 400,000 thousand permanent residents in Edinburgh. We walked around the old city and the University of Edinburgh and found Hanna’s old flat. We also happened upon a craft beer pub that served many Scottish craft beers ... read more

So today was..................THE LAST DAY OF SCOTLAND!!!!!!!! I WILL MISS IT ALL......BUT OVERALL IT WAS A GOOOOOOOOOOOD TRIP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So today we woke up did lots of cleaning made the bed do the laundry and then we left for the highland games it was also a fair that was cool but we didn't go on the rides but we did get to see the highland games and plus there were some boys races and Russell was in it and he came in third place and if you are on my moms blog you can see my brother with some money which he got three pounds but he doesn't know what to spend it on but he knows what to do with one of his pounds he is going to keep it to remember and it is real ... read more