Blogs from Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 2

The hard part was getting there! We (well, especially me) like to have two seats together instead of the usual three in most airplanes. This is especially important during an overseas flight, which can become very uncomfortable after sitting so long. I found that KLM, which is operated by Air France and Delta, offered 2-seat rows on their Airbus A330 flights from Seattle to Amsterdam. We flew from San Francisco to Seattle, then to Amsterdam, and then it was a short trip to Glasgow from Amsterdam. When we arrived at Seattle we found our flight was delayed about an hour, which meant we would miss our flight from Amsterdam to Glasgow. We went to the ticket counter and explained our situation. An agent spent a lot of time trying to get us on another flight, with ... read more

Meine zweite Woche in Schottland ist vorbei, so langsam komme ich wieder in Europa an, nur an das Wetter kann ich mich immer noch nicht gewöhnen. Vor ein paar Tagen war es richtig schön sonnig und fast warm draußen, so an die 20°C. Da meinten die ganzen Schotten, ja so sieht hier der Sommer aus. Buhuuu, ich will zurück nach Brasilien!! Wie im letzten Eintrag angekündigt, will ich nun endlich mal etwas über meine Arbeit erzählen. Obwohl es da auch nicht sooo viel zu sagen gibt. Ich mache jetzt ein 5-monatiges Praktikum bei einem Reiseveranstalter namens Abbey Tours. Eigentlich sind die aus Irland und haben auch in Dublin ihren Hauptsitz, aber seit einigen Jahren haben sie eine Außenstelle in Edinburgh, die ausschließlich für Reisen innerhalb Schottlands zuständig ist. Das Büro ist nicht so riesig, es gibt ... read more

April 26, 2012 – St Andrews Today was Damian's round of the Old Course at St Andrews – talk about having one excited Husband! The weather was extremely cold, and a few showers came across the region but I don't think it mattered at all – Damian was able to tick something off his “bucket list” by playing at The Home of Golf. I spent the day exploring St Andrews – it's not a big place, just a nice village. There are some great shops, and I also walked up to St Andrews Cathedral – which was really interesting. There is just so much history in the UK – we have no concept of history in Australia. It's our last night at Cambo House tonight – we'll be sad to leave tomorrow. Tomorrow we are heading ... read more

Greg was up at 5am, out of the room by 5.15am and he headed over to line up to get on the Old Course to play. I called at 8am, i could hear lots of wind in the background, but GREAT news, he was on and playing. A group of 4 had pulled out so he'd just hit off and thought the ball had hit the water!!! Will leave it to him to fill in the rest. Kids and i trying to get organised and head to the movies. Went and saw Pirates, pretty good, great bus trip to the top of Dundee and back to the snow. Weather today back in Yorkshire was blizzards, again more great luck! or a St Andrews miracle. St Andrews, let me set the scene. 6.15am, 1.5 degrees, the wind ... read more

The day started off sunny and pretty cool. Today we travelled to St. Andrews and then to Edinburgh. At St Andrews we learned that the Scots put up St. Andrew’s church to show the cardinals in England that they were capable of having their own church separate from England. The church supposedly had some bones from one of the disciples, St. Andrew and in the day people would go on pilgrimages just to see this church and touch the casket holding the bones of St. Andrew. The church was enormous and very ornate. Later a man named John Knox gave a rousing speech at the local Presbyterian church denouncing the Catholic religion and how the bishops lived in opulence while the people were in poverty. This led to the whole town converting to Protestant and heading ... read more