Blogs from Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 5

Busy weekends, I tell ya! This past Friday, the International students decided to go out and get a taste of Celtic music. The Tunnels, which literally is a huge tunnel under Union Street in Aberdeen was hosting something called "Electric Ceilidh." ( I am not sure of the spelling?) They basically played many different varieties of Scottish music and attempted to have traditional dances. The dancing part didn't go too well, but the music is quite entertaining as well as the men in kilts:) After the Ceilidh, a couple of us left and took the bus back up to the dorms. This was my first experience riding a DOUBLE DECKER bus, (slightly intoxicated) as well!! Good times! Saturday was a pretty uneventful day. A couple of friends and I that didn't get tickets to Loch Ness ... read more

What a weekend! Me and a couple of other international students decided to get out of Aberdeen and visit Donnottar Castle. We took the bus from our dorm, downtown, where we had to walk and find the bus station. Luckily, one of my flatmates was on her way to work and helped us out a bit and we found it no problem. After a rude man told us with an unidentifiable phrase which bus we had to take, we figured it out ourselves and ended up on the right bus...whew!! Stonehaven, by bus is about 40ish minutes from Aberdeen. Lucky for us, the weather was sunny, so we were all in high spirits. We got to Stonehaven and guessed at which stop to get off at. As we were wondering around, an elderly guy saw and ... read more

What a day! We did not get to go visit the castle like we wanted too, but we are going to go to Stonehaven tomorrow anyway and explore the city. It's about 15-25 minutes south of Aberdeen on the coast. Today we made a discovery that simply was unbelievable. The North Sea beach is a 15 minute walk from campus! 15 MINUTES! And it is beautiful. I have never been a on a beach where there was snow and sand at the same time!:) Today we went shopping downtown...a Saturday afternoon is the busiest time to shop in Aberdeen, because everyone is off work and all the stores close at 5pm. I picked up some essentials and then we headed back to my flat and made tacos. They hit the spot:) I went with two friends, ... read more

Ende November war die liebe Familie zu Besuch, und statt (nur) der Ellis, kam die Janilein auch mit. Mei, war des ne Überraschung ;) Ich hab mich sehr gefreut und wir 4 haben 2 tolle Tage zusammenverbracht (von denen ich leider schon am Abend des ersten krank wurde, als Jana nur meinte, cih glaube ich werde krank, es karatzt schon im Hals. Ha, und wer wurde wirklich krank? Natürlich, die Jüngste ;))Wie waren in Stonehaven bei Dunnottar Castle (eine Kliffruine par excellence, hier wurde Hamlet mit Mel Gibson und Glenn Close verfilmt, zumindest das Setting) und auf meinem Unicampus, also viel Spaß beim Anschauen :)... read more

Oioioi, an dem Abend habe ich wayyyy too much getrunken. 10 shots Tequila glaub ich und eine kliene Flasche Ouzo zusammen mit Vasilis, der sie mir aus Athen mitgebracht hat :O Bis zum nächsten Mal. Liebe Grüße, eure Jule... read more