Blogs from Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 3

Castle This past weekend I went with an IFSA-Butler sponsored trip to Loch Lomond. They always do good things, though this was the first trip of the semester, which means TONS of people. It was quite a festive bunch, though slightly exhausting. To deal with the large amount of people Butler hired out an entire hostel, the Loch Lomond Youth Hostel to be specific. The Loch Lomond youth hostel is not your normal backpacking hostel though. It's a castle. An honest to god Castle out in the middle of nowhere. Converted in 1945 using relief funds contributed by American Trade Unions, it has preserved the grand feeling in all of the main rooms, conference rooms, dining rooms etc, while the rooms all became your basic hostel rooms. My favorite part architecturally was the beautiful stained glass ... read more

Meaning: There was a great Cèilidh at the university , a good whisky (alias water of life) and a nice loch (alias lake) in Loch Lomond :) Jaja, meine Gälisch Kenntnisse machen große Fortschritte. Es ist ein großer Schritt für mich und ein sehr geringer für die Menschheit ;-) Aaaalso, um mal im Urschleim anzufangen. Ich bin Mitgleid im Partykommittee der international society, die aus drei teams besteht: trip team 1, trip team 2 und social team (in unseren Kreisen einfach nur party team ;-)). So, wir veranstlten sämtliche trips rund um schottland und natürlich, ganz wichtig, alle möglichen Partys. Am Donnerstag beispielsweise, war ein Cèilidh. Total toll! Meine Waden waren zwar am Montag noch ganz verkrampft (ich hatte solche Schmerzen, dass ich geschrien habe, als Alex sie massiert hat), aber es hat sich gelohnt. Ich ... read more

These are pictures of my first holidays. My parents, my grandma and I had gone to Scotland and visited lots of beautiful places...... read more

Sunday was a good day. We had to get up for breakfast at 8, but then we could go back to sleep until church at 1:30. But after I got up and ate, I didn’t really feel like sleeping anymore. So I ended up sitting in the common room doing some writing and also some sketching of the views. It was nice to sit there and just look at the landscape because it’s completely gorgeous up here. Everyone else started getting up around 11 to get ready for church. There isn’t a local branch, so our group is just holding our own sacrament meeting in a grove of trees behind the hostel. It was really amazing having sacrament meeting outdoors. Being outside jerked me out of the familiar routine we sometimes get into and made ... read more

Path to the Youth Hostel in Rowardennan on the Banks of Loch LomondLiz Muir I arrived in London Heathrow Airport at 5:30 am on the 27th with three hours until my connection to Glasgow. I spent the first two hours running through the rat race that is Heathrow airport. The ceilings were really low so the halls feel all squat and square, and you end up in these hugely long lines that snake through the airport with no sense whatsoever. After making it through that, I made my first food purchase in the UK: an Aero bar, of course, only the best candy bar in Britain! My flight to Glasgow was slightly delayed because they had some trouble getting off the luggage that needed to go on other planes. I finally arrived in Glasgow about an ... read more