Edinburgh Travel Blogs - Page 3

This blog is just a small photo gallery of my last trip to this amazing city.

Feck Aye,   We're back in the capital after a week of being on tour through the Highlands, Isle of Skye, Orkney Islands and Loch Ness! Overcast days, wind and rain just added to the surreal experience. After one night sleeping in Gatwick airport we're off to Croatia.

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 g…

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 cam…

I'm basically not doing any updates now, because Caroline's computer is set up on her bed, and it's really uncomfortable to type for any length of time... and tomorrow I'll be heading up to the Orkneys, so not likely to update any time soon. I'll try to log on to send emails letting people know I'm…

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 a…

 Today was a really late start....Getting up early and drinking isn’t a very good combination. Noell and I went shopping today. Not really what we came to do in Scotland, but we weren't up for much.  We walked around to different shops along Princess Street. Then we headed back to the h…

We woke up at 7am, and packed our things up, ready to get back on the bus at 10am. Before we left though, we ate breakfast at the hostel. Our bus left on time, yet we were late getting into London. We were supposed to arrive at 7pm, however, because we stopped at many little towns along the way, an…

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&nbs…

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.  =) …

Edinburgh & Scottish Highlands, July 2006

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 th…

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.

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.  …

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…