Blogs from Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 6

Hello everyone...good to hear all is ok back home....which seems a long way off right now! It is 9.15 am here in Stirling and I am at the tourist info place. I will be heading up to Edinburgh later and will be going to the Tattoo tonight....hopefully anyway because they have predicted heavy rain tonight! Had some lovely surprises in Stirling....I was met by two friends when I got here who took me out for a drive in the afternoon and then to tea that night. Yesterday I bought a ticket on the hop on hop off bus and went out to the Wallace monument. It is a huge tower and I climbed the 246 steps to the top....great views but you know me with heights!...I was glad to get down. Then I rang another friend ... read more

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 had one more week at the Stone's house. The boys and I went to visit the Kelvingrove Art Museum, which had an excellent photography exhibit on at the time. I got bored one afternoon and ... read more

20 June - Friday 20th June 2008: We decided to use the hop-on hop-off bus, rather than the car, to travel around Stirling as it stopped at all the places we wished to visit and it also gave us a scenic tour of the rest of the town. The township of Stirling is your typical English/Scottish town; the old parts of it are full of incredibly, narrow winding streets but more modern buildings, shopping centres and malls tend to dominate the renovated portions of the city. We turned the corner to the street containing the bus stop only to see the bus (which was supposed to leave in ten minutes time) start up and disappear into some of the narrower streets. As the stop was outside the tourist centre we went in and asked what was ... read more

Has been another interesting couple of days. Weather has continued to be absolutely beautiful - sunny, warm and NO RAIN! YESSS! Yesterday I had grand plans to see Edinburgh Castle and Camera Obscura amongst other sites. Instead stayed in, marked essays and after a bit went to the Meadows to check out the music festival going on with Carlo, the janitor at the hostel (he was from Naples) and Dominik (a 50 year old South African dude). It was really fun and some of the bands were fantastic! So after sun bathing for a while headed back to the hostel and decided to go out for dinner and a tour around town with Karine, Steve and Derek. The Aussie tried to meander his way in but we sort of left without him... whoops! Because Derek was ... read more

I suppose it just wouldn't be right if each year didn't get a little bit more difficult in my five year long battle against the evil company. In February, about a week before I left for Scotland, I called my HR contact to see if my position might still be open this summer. Unfortunately, I received this email about two days later: Dear Prospective Intern, Thank you for your interest in participating in the Summer Internship Program. We will be undergoing substantial global restructuring, reshaping, and repositioning of its organization in the upcoming months. We regret to inform you that due to the many complexities of this global process, the organization will not be in a position to sponsor and support a summer internship program in 2008. Once again, we appreciate your interest in Maersk Inc. ... read more