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Travel Blogs from Doune
Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... chat. He even explained the inflight entertainment which was otherwise a complete and utter mystery to me! Definite highlights of the flight were the views, especially flying over Baghdad and Basra and even Kuwait, even though it was dark, it was still possible to see the cities all lit up below. The whole flight was surreal, I felt like I was watching myself in a film. Coming down into Dubai was amazing, we could even see the desert and swimming pools below...!
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Genna - At Last!
A few things worth noting happened here in Scotland today. First, as evidenced by my ability to post this update while sitting on the couch in our flat, Alex and I finally have the internet. That means we have access to Skype, and starting tomorrow we can start talking with everyone at home again. It's been three months too long!
The second thing that I would like to mention is that this morning I woke up to find that it had snowed! ...
Monty Python and the Storming of Stirling Castle
Today we gate-crashed a wedding at the Doune Castle scene of Monty Python and the Holy Grail's famous wedding-rescue, where John Cleese (Sir Lancelot) kills guards and guests in an attempt to rescue a maiden from an unwanted wedding, only to discover that it is the wimpy groom who sent a message of distress. Today's groom did not have wet feet, it appears...
Last night we watched part of MP and The Holy Grail in preparation for today's trip. About 70% of the ...
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- Restaurant
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- Pets allowed