I know it's been a while, but due to internet issues and software issues with my camera, I haven't been able to update until now. So, not long after my last post, Katie and I headed up to Stirling to see the castle during our afternoon off. Stirling has been my favorite for years now, ever since the first time I saw it nearly 7 years ago. I found that I'm as much in love with it as ever. Katie left two days later to return to the States, and is currently in Poland for two weeks. After Katie left, I [View Full Entry]

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I have been working a lot lately. On my days off I have been wondering around exploring Edinburgh. It is so amazing here. I love being in this city. I have found some cute little street and pubs. I have also found a small knitting store that sells yarn from all over Scotland. I am going to buy some as soon as I know what I want to make when I am home. This past week I fit in a 3-day tour of the Isle of Skye, which is an Island off the west coast of Scotland. It drives you through [View Full Entry]

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Good Morning Friends and Family! After a cooked English breakfast for me and half a plate and lots and lots of cereal for “The Small Young Gentleman”, we went to the Glasgow University via the Kelvin Grove Park and the River Kelvin. As I said earlier, we were in the university district area and so the main campus area was a 20 minute walk away. Surprisingly, the weather stayed pretty dry with only short drizzles of rain. We visited the Hunterian Art Gallery and Museum which had exhibitions of weird and wonderful things spanning from abnormality in animals to amazement of [View Full Entry]

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but not as dangerous as playing football. Why? Well - after three days putting slates on our roof - our roofer played football - couldn't have been for more than 90 minutes and he managed to break his leg. Commiserations to Ally who has been great. Fortunately the 2 young guys have managed perfectly well without their boss and finished the north side of the roof and started on the south side. What else - well Carrie and Frank finished putting bales in the north wall, then at the weekend, supported by volunteers Tim, Alan and Margaret, we started on [View Full Entry]

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I woke up at 06:00 in order to do last minute-minute tidying up, give away my still fresh fruit and veg to my student neighbours, do the last dish wash and wash my hair! Wash my hair? Well you never know!! We took the local bus to the Berlin Main Train Station ( Hbf ) and after hugs and goodbyes went on the Regional Train that had a stop-off at Schönefeld Airport. We arrived there a little after 12 Noon and after slight bag adjustments for the benefit of security control, went through with no problems at all. My belt didn't [View Full Entry]

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well the Isle of Lewis, what a beautiful place, amazing scenery . the HEBRIDEAN CELTIC FESTIVAL is definitely recommended. although we probably drank way too much. we got the boat from belfast to troon then drove up to ulapool, (stopped in a travel lodge for one night on the way) great road trip, great fun. [View Full Entry]

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more sheep than people :D [View Full Entry]

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Here's the problem with blogs. When you're busy doing interesting things, you don't have a second spare to write them. Only when you're bored is there time to inflict your naval-gazing on others. So here, in ultra-condensed form, is what I've been up to for the last month or so. I was sitting on the ruined watchtower of Craigmillar Castle just outside Edinburgh a few weeks ago when my phone finally rang with a job offer. I nearly fell off my turret with happiness. It's a sub-editing job with a group of local papers on the western fringe of London, starting [View Full Entry]

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July 15th and 16th , 2008 Today the ship docked in Edinburgh, Scotland for two days. We had a fantastic day exploring Edinburgh Castle. At 1:00 we heard the cannon blast. We saw the crown jewels of Scotland and had lunch in the Castle. Then later that evening we had a private ghost tour. Edinburgh is home to the show Ghost Hunters. Our guide was a very good story teller and took us all over Edinburgh telling us of the haunting and then took us under the city to the underground vaults and tried to scare us some more. I didn’t [View Full Entry]

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A day I'd imagined all my life and what a day it would turn out to be. I think nearly every little girl dreams of her wedding day, the beautiful dress - marrying the man of your dreams. For me, I always wanted to be by water, in the open air. Scotland was ideal, perfect and home. It took months of research to decide that we could do it there, as the strong pound against the Canadian dollar made it an expensive choice. However, with some help, the possibility turned into reality. We started planning and my trip over at Christmas [View Full Entry]

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