Edinburgh Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals - Page 3

So today was our last day in Edinburgh and since we kind of wasted our 2 previous days by trying to sort out flights, trains, and accomodation we thought that today we should actually see some of the wonders of Edinburgh. We started with the Royal Mile (ofcourse!) We walked along their until we came to Mary King's Close (the city underground) Mary Kings close is an old side street that branched off of the royal mile in the 1600's but in the 1800's the government cut off the top of most of the…

Ok, so we went to Edinburgh for a fun-fulled Halloween weekend. We had a great hotel that I will give a full review (Ten Hill Place). We booked the "Ghost and Gouls" tour with Mercat Tours. It was quite cold, windy,  and a bit rainy. The witch who was our guide was a great storyteller. Here's abit about the tour: By day Edinburgh is a bustling metropolis ��" but at night the old buildings and narrow closes take on a more sinister air…A long history of murd…

My brother and his now wife were over visiting us, so we were trying to figure out what to do and although I live here, its terrible the amount of things I haven’t seen! So we decided to do the Edinburgh Ghost Hunt, which for us started at 10pm at night (tremendous!) and finished at midnight.   You start off on the Royal Mile where your tour guide is all dressed up and getting you into the theme and spirit of things. He tells you some background and then you follow him a…

I traveled to Scotland with 2 friends of mine - Jatin and Simon. Our original plan was to attend the Edinburgh rocks weekend that was organized by the couchsurfing community (www.couchsurfing.com), which started on Friday and ended on Monday. We decided to skip the program and to travel around in Scotland for 2 days. At first Simon and I couldn't decided where to start our journey on Friday evening - Simon wanted to fly Edinburgh and I wanted to fly to Glasgow.  …

I never slept well that night. I don't know why, surprisingly I was the only one in the room but  I just couldn't sleep. I got up at 7am, called up Haggis and said I'm not going on the return bus back to London. I slept again, woke up at 10am and kept my luggage at the locker. I headed out  after breakfast, and posted some stuff back to my Dallas address. I went to Waverley to buy my ticket to London. F*%#!! 89 GBP! From there, did some general window shopping and headed around to…

We have seen a total of 5 castles now, Edinburgh, Urquhart, Huntly, Lochleven and Sterling.  They are unbelievable, its hard to image something so old still exists!  They are hundreds of years older than our own country!!!  Some are in better repairs than others, but thats besides the point.  Yesterday we traveled from Inverness back to Edinburgh, stopping at Huntly and Lochleven on the way.  It was cold and rainy, but we still trooped out and about.  Saw a lot o…

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, had a bath, and then started to pack. No panic, I still had 3 hours before my sister was due to pick me up to drive me to the station. It was nice to have one night back my nice bed before h…

Well, I think it is....Great party. We celebrated NZ's new year at 10am, then Aussie, then a whole bunch more. Met some really crazy fun people and had a blast.Edinburgh is cool. Evidentally it's easy to understand the Scottish accent if you are drunk.

I woke at 10:20am to the sound of ringing.  Until then, I had not even realized my room had a phone in, an unusual feature for a hostel.  It was the counter staff calling to inform me that I was overdue for check out.  Having forgotten my alarm clock at the last hostel, I had overslept by a couple of hours.  Hurriedly, I popped out of bed, got myself ready, packed up my things, and promptly vacated.   I toured the excavated AD 1600 cellar of the Marlin’s Wynd in t…

Our tour ended in Edinburgh and we all went our separate ways.  My plan was to catch train that evening down to York, England.  However, there were no more trains running that way for some reason so I decided to stay in Edinburgh for the night, taking an early train in the morning.  I found a room at the hostel I had stayed at before, and as I was walking around town I bumped into two of the girls from the tour.  It just so happened they were staying in the same hostel, so…

And so, I came upon the final week of my program and, therefore, my time in Scotland.  I had found a home there and I was truly sad to leave it.  So, like good American students, I and my fellow classmates engaged in some end-of-the-era fun, of the extremely inebriated sort.  =)  I can't tell you what I learned the last week of school mostly because I was either still drunk or too hungover to remember a thing.  But it was worth it.  Best of all, to truly end with…

Edinburgh & Scottish Highlands, July 2006

We finally arrived in Edinburgh feeling tired and ill thanks to a bumpy flight and a chronic hangover due to 4 nights of leaving parties (thanks to all our mates and family for this ;o) ) Edinburgh was very cold but refreshing all the same....We've been taking things very easy and generally looking forward to the chilled out lifestyle we are looking forward to enjoying over the next (??) months !Spent a leisurely day taking in the sights, mainly Edinburgh castle, and exploring the old town. W…

We had a brilliant week in the Beautiful city of Edinburgh, one of my favourite cities so far. We stayed with the awesome fun way cool friendly helpful executive hippy professional juggler/fire peformer Rob, and with such a beautiful place to stay (outisde the front door was a view straight down the street to the Castle) with such a beautiful person, what an awesome time we were set to have.

Well after having the most amazing year in Poland, something told me it was time move on. And again I had to say see you later to some great friends, which never gets any easier. Why I chose Edinburgh I have no idea. But every move I make something good always comes from it. One door closes another door opens...Well my doors are always left open.After the first day in Edinburgh, I was questioning my move. It was a cold, wet and windy morning upon arrival and I knew absolutely nobody. And coul…