Scotland!

This week has been amazing!

Lets start on Thursday.... I booked my tickets to go to Brussels, Belguim!! My friend lives there and im gonna go see her!! I've heard it's absolutely beautiful, especially in summer and im soo excited!
Also it marks the one month exactly until we are in Spain!! Yay for heat! Yay for beaches!!

Ok so Saturday morning in the wee hours (4:30 am) I had to go catch a bus..to the airport. Now the. Or all busses take about an hour to get into the city but they don't run this early :(. So I had to take the bus that stops in every little town along the way, it takes 2 hours! So I had to leave that early in order to get to the airport early-ish!

So I finally get there and through security... And just chill out! It's so fun watching ppl. Also it great there's heaps of ppl at the bar already drinking lol that's Ireland or ya I guess!

So my flight was delayed and I'm getting annoyed cause I only have 2 days I need all the time I can get! It was t that long though and once we got boarded and left it was only a 30 min flight! Lol so by the time I got there I think it was like 8:45 lol. I was soo excited because from the airplane I could already see different castles and stuff so I knew it was gonna be good!!

Once I got there I had to change my moolah and get on a bus that would bring me into the city center! I was soo super bummed because they did t stamp my passport :(

So it's about a 30 min ride into the city center and as we were driving through other towns on the outskirts of the city I was in complete ahhh!! Everything was soo huge and soo old and just looked like something out of a movie! Now granted I know that most of Europe is like this but Ireland is not so this was my first real old European holiday!

So once we got into the city I had no idea what todo..at some point I needed to meet up with Steffy my friend that's going to school there. So I wandered around a bit but like seriously had no idea which way was what... So I got into one of the goofy looking cabs and went to steffys place to drop off my bag since I was staying with her!!

When I got there... She wasn't here ugh...I tried calling but it didn't work :/. Soo then I went walking around that part of town, found a Starbucks Woohoo connected to wifi an finally got a hold of her! She herself got locked out of the apartment so she was at some friends place!! I told her that I wasn't gonna just sit around, cause I only had one day for the city soo I went up to the castle and looked around and the. By the time she was back! So I dropped my stuff off and we went bak down to the main city! We walked down the royal mile and say more castles and the queens holiday palace and then we crossed the river and went down Rose Street...it's a very posh street that has heaps of markets and lil cafes. We met up with one of her friends for a coffee!

After that we walked all around, "New town" Edinburgh, just lots more old buildings and lots of statues!! We were headed to the edge of town where the other castle sits and we were gonna go up there to watch the sun set! So we got over there walked up...hung out!! But it was still ages til the sun set and it started getting a but foggy. So we though forget this!! Lol. We had to walk back across all of town. We were gonna have a little crepe party at Steffys for dinner!

So went to the store and got some stuff!! Then headed back to her place. Apparently form the week me and Steffy spent together in Australia she thinks im the most brilliant cook! So for the crepe party everyone made their own filling..and everyone shared! I made this cream cheese filling with some strawberries...everyone was raving about it and saying how they ever tasted anything so wonderful and how they could eat it forever lol. I was like Omg it was 3 ingredients not that big of a deal!! But I'm glad they all liked it!

So after that we all kinda just sat around and talked about different countries and languages and stuff because, there was a guy from Russia, a girl from Spain, 2 girls from Italy, a girl from Australia and me! Soo there was quite a few different nationalities goin on there!
By 2 am I was spent I needed to go to bed...I had been up for 22 hours. And I had to go up early for my highland tour in the morn!

So for the tour, we met up at this place right down town. It's called The Hairy Coo tour. And you go around the highlands in a bright orange bus. Kinda silly!

But we left around 9 and headed up to Stirling! It's supposed to be the most important city in Scotland. We went up to the Wallace (brave heart guy) monument and saw where he had his battle and the bridge where the whole war went down. The tour guy knew so much history it was amazing and it was all interesting stuff. But the end of the day I can tell you the whole history of Scotland pretty much!

So we went to the monument nod had to walk up this big hill to get to it and I totally biff it!! Fall right on my face!! Lol. So I have a bruised knee, a muddy knee, spilt my coffee and got mud on my camera not to mention the huge blister I got the day before!! Oh well, just my luck!!

So we looked around there, it had the most amazing view! Another huge castle right in town! This town is also the passage way to the highlands and you can see the distinction between the highlands and the lowlands!

After that we headed up...the first place we stopped was actually the only lake in Scotland! The rest are lochs! It was very cute and quaint, it had a little church across the way and little island! They have a ferry that goes across it but they said you never know when it will be there or when it will come back across lol

Next we drive up huge mountain into the national Forrest...we stopped at a little waterfall. Was very pretty but it reminded me a lot of Washington or Oregon lol. I said that to the tour guy and he said that a lot of people tell him it reminds them if British Columbia and I was like well yea...that's like Washington...people here get so confused at where I'm from when I say Washington! Oh well!

Went went to this little village in the middle of no where for lunch. After that we went to find the Hairy Coos! :) We driving along and stopped at this pretty like that had a small lil church across from it and some "castle" vacation Holmes. Then we all get back in and start driving again and all the sudden, this foreign chick starts yelling all crazy in some weirdo language and laughing and all slapping her husband. All that had happened was we drove by some of the highland cows lol the tour guy all looked back and was like, were gonna stop don't worry with this like crazy look on his face!! It was so funny!

So before we got out he had to warn us about their horns and how they do this spaz thing and shake their head all crazy so don't get to to close cause their horns will stab you and he told us how someone had gotten their jaw broken and another girl had her front teeth knocked out!! So everyone was a little scared!! Lol. I wasn't scared, they are cows! Even though yes they can hurt you with their horns, they are still ore scared of you then them. So I went right up and started petting it. They had some bread that you could feed them and everyone would go up close enough so that their out stretched arm would be sorda near the cow and drop the bread. I was like omg!! So I was the one right near the fence picking up the bread and actually giving it to them. They had crazy long tounge s they wrapped around the bread soo I was making them stick it out so ppl can get their pictures lol. I should be doing the tour lol they had silly cow hats that he said we could use to take pictures with, of course everyone else is boring and I was the only one to use a hat!! It was great!!

Then we headed back to town and stopped a couple more times along the way! He pretty much talked the whole way about all the history and junk and when he wasn't talking he put on all these Scottish singers and there was one group that played all really popular songs but with the bag pipes it was rally cool!

Once I got back into town I headed towards Steffy place and it was right at sunset and everything looked soo beautiful and so I just chilled out in "the meadows" right near Steffys place!
It was soo pretty and seriously the nicest weather!

This weekend worked out so perfect...one it was not raining which was amazing cause scotland is rainier then ireland and it was soo beautiful...those are the two main factors that made me fall in love with the city and would come back In a heartbeat!!

I had to get up bright and early the next day and head to the airport....I did t mind because the city was soo cool with the sunrise behind it and completely empty!!

It had to be the perfect and much needed weekend away!


<3 lynds