Edinburgh Travel Blogs

After this trip, I now know this to be true:  "What you don't know can't hurt you." I have never seen ghosts nor experienced anything close to the paranormal (and I'm not complaining :)). However, I do have a wild imagination and I tend to torture myself for weeks aft…

After the last one fell through, Bondy and Hannah came up with the goods and organised this TB Meet up.  It was brilliant!  Somehow, via promoting/bullying, there was a good turn out for this meet up.  The Attendees were: Me, Bondy (Bondy2007), Ashley (ashleynpearson), Hannah (hanna…

So there'd been a meet up organised in Edinburgh for August which I couldn't make but it had fallen through anyway. So as I'd planned on heading to Edinburgh, I set up a new forum to meet locals of the area. Well in the end we only had 3 locals of Scotland and none of them from Edinburgh!! Haha. It…

Me and my dad, we both love traveling a lot. Since I moved on my own few years ago we started to do little 4-5 days city trips together once in a year. Edinburgh has been on our dream destination list for a while already and when Ryanair introduced a direct flight from Bratislava, it was just a question of time when we would go to discover the Scottish capital.

AttendeeeeesMe - bondy2007Hannah - hannah-louLori - lovely_lori88Inuit Jen (Camerican) - Not on TB...shes an inuit that live in an igloo so no net connectionSusheel (or if you ask Derek - Stewart!) - thesweethereafterSusanne (pretty obvious!) - susannebellMark - mageraAnna - Anna_B_82Another origin…

I never seem to be able to sleep on an airplane for very long, or very comfortably. Part of it has to do with the seats, but I think the whole experience of flying is an uncomfortable one. I was hoping that this one would be different. The bulk of my travel itinerary was a 8.5 hour flight from M…

I didn't sleep well through the night due to my ear infection. Suzi gave me some Keflex to help. Thursday had a local city guide showing us the sights of EDINBURGH including PRINCESS STREET and the ROYAL MILE. He told us about the Bodysnatchers, Dr Jekyll & Mr. Hyde and Greyfriars Bobby. While …

Alarm clock rang at 9 am. I got up, had breakfast and took the train from Düsseldorf central station to Cologne Airport. The plane to Edinburgh left at 2 am and arrived at 3 am. Thanks to time difference, I lost just one hour on the flight though the flight took two hours. I got to the hostel at 4…

Our last day in this glorious city…and we had ambitious plans.  I had learned that there was a trailhead ascending one of Edinburgh’s peaks just behind Holyrood…and couldn’t resist the temptation.  Our goal was ascending Arthur’s Seat, one of the extinct volcanic cones domina…

Our last morning in Edinburgh.  We ate breakfast at the Hotel Ceilidh-Donia followed by packing and a taxi ride to the airport.  We flew home to Minnesota through Newark and encountered a 4 hour weather delay due to storm that developed over the airport as we were waiting on the tarm…

I always dreamed of visiting Europe... always dreamed of visiting everywhere but anyway!I was stuck in a life that wasn't as I expected it to be.  Since I was old enough to understand that there was a world out there to be discovered, I wanted to experience it.  My biggest dream, every Ch…

A few more photos to upload (eventually) heh... stay tuned!!

Today we did the 'normal' tourist stuff. Looking at the tourist spots in Edinburgh.Most are located near the Royal Mile, so we got back to Princess Street, bought us day tickets for the next days and started our tour.At first Dad, me and my brother's girlfriend decided to climb on the Scott Monumen…

I feel like I didn't give Edinburgh a fair shake. I basically got there and booked a day trip away from the city and then did some walking.  Mostly I was busy stressing about the next location of my trip.  Anyway, I should've hung around longer, but I did really enjoy the Highland to…

For the first day of my trip, I had to be up early, not because my flight to Scotland was early, that was going to be at 2pm, but because I still had two loads of washing to do from Dublin where I had just returned from the day before... ahhh! I got up at 7am, but the first load of washing on, …