Blogs from Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 462

Frankly, having a short visit to the most fascinating cities in the world (I suppose) is always a rewarding experience... My 3-hours stay at the city centre of Edinburgh was really an achievement being an urban planner. Edinburgh is one of the old cities in the world and a very good example of the early and modern urban planning! Prior to my visit, stories about the city were just purely accounts of authors from books and magazines... and my own imagination! Being there alone was really a wonderful feeling of fulfillment - experiencing what these authors said about this Scottish city... amazing, magnificent, awesome, beautiful and fantastic - those words described my feelings - admiration at first sight! Wow!...Through my digital camera, I was able to explore the places, enjoy the city scenery - the ... read more

On 25th February, Lorina and I finally went on our first international society excursion to St. Andrew. We had the best weather as usual *being sarcastic*. At 8.45am, we boarded the bus at King’s College. At 11am, we finally reached St. Andrews. Sightseeing started with the ruins of St. Andrews' castle. We couldn’t really enjoy it because it was really foggy and icy. In fact, the wind was so strong that it was quite impossible to take a decent photo . After spending an hour at the castle, we moved on to take a guided tour of Scotland’s second oldest golf course. They say that golf was invented there. The tour was interesting although we almost froze to death. Then, we went on to the ruins of the St. Andrews’ cathedral. It took Tina some convincing ... read more

On the 17th of Febuary I disinbarked from Cairns, Australia. About to see off on a journey many would call "living the dream" Not knowing what the future had in store for me. My First of many flights was destan for Japan where I stayed over night and returned early the next morning to the airport. My next destanation was Scottland with a pause in Gemany.On arrival in Scottland Alice was awaiting my arrival with the warmest jacket she could find. 20th Feb Early Monday morning Alice and I set off on owe 6 day Haggis tour (where we meet alot of aussies). The tour showed us some of the many beautiful (but cold) sites scotland had to offer!!!! After the tour Alice and I returned to Stirland to regenerate and stock up ( as in ... read more

Mid term break provides teachers in the UK with a much needed break from the rigors of dealing with this chaotic profession. But for a lifestyle-teacher like myself it provides an opportunity to frolic in a foreign land… in this case Scotland would be the land to which I turn. Azz did his very best to miss the bus, but apart from that, after a ‘wee’ 6 hour journey we arrived in Glasgow well acquainted with the humdrum of green pasture, snow capped mountain tops and British sheep. For the first time this trip, I was lured into doing tourist type things like visiting ancient castles, historic monuments and antiquated battlefields. But by delving into the history behind each town we visited (Glasgow, Stirling and Edinburgh), one could not help but marvel at how amazing ... read more

Today Emily and I started our first trip together completely independent of school and everyone else in the program. For the most part all of the other kids from school joined the trip to Prague with the school but we decided to take the more budget-friendly and unique option to spend the long weekend up north in Scotland. We left last night on the overnight bus from London to Glasgow. I'm not going to lie that this wasn't the most pleasant experience that we've ever had considering that we both thought we might freeze to death before we even reached our final destination. I don't know what the deal was but no matter how hard we tried we just couldn't get warm. The bus left London at almost midnight and we arrived in Glasgow at just ... read more