Edinburgh
Travel Blogs from Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dark City (Edinburgh to the Border)
... from the hostel. After so many early nights in the car it was nice to be able to do something different in the evening. Edinburgh has a great nightlife, it was a fantastic time and I really don't think I even scratched the surface. Back being tourists the ...
Those pesky Romanians
With the Romanian embassy clutching onto our passports, and seemingly no chance of finding them anytime soon we ended up in Scotland. Having all taken two weeks off work and excitedly prepared ourselves for Romania, the embassy lost our passports. Its a ...
The Quest For The Indian Visas
Andy has had to go off to Edinburgh in the hope that we'll finally get these visas after all the crap we've already been through. Luckily, after a bus, a taxi and a boat, he's arrived back in Belfast with our visas... looks like we're going to India ...
Return to Auld Reekie - our first month back
When the plane landed at Edinburgh on Wednesday 5 April, I cried...that's it, it was ALL OVER. The trip we'd dreamed about and planned for so long, the 10 months we lived to the full and immersed ourselves in a medley of exotic new places, colours, ...
Final week - counting down, gearing up
... and caught the 11.30am flight to London. Despite being real hard work and quite stressful, our final week at home in Edinburgh also included many cheerful excuses for a good party - a last braai and drunken bash with our sailing buddies on Friday the ...
Get your oats
You could call it comfort food - or discomfort food for those with bad memories of lumpy, cold, or stodgy breakfasts. But porridge made from oatmeal has got to be one of the most nutritious and hearty ways to start the day, particularly if that day is ...
Edinburgh castle
Since we booked our flight out of Scotland with Ryan Air we had to print out our own boarding passes (pain in the butt!) or we would have to pay extra at the airport. We aked the hostel owner where we could print from and she really ...
Happy New Year
... 05, no comments being made but it falls on the THIRD of January (every year). We went up here for the famed Hogmany, Edinburgh's street party. Now, remember I lived in Japan so you would think I would be used to large crowds of people, but Hogmany ...
Great Scots!
... we saw more green hillsides, hedgerow and stone fences and sheep than we had ever imagined. Our Scotland experience started in Edinburgh. One of Melanie' colleagues, John, lives outside of Edinburgh and invited us to have stew and shortbread at his ...
Misty Scotch
... drive for the rest of the day, heading up past the Wallace Memorial and onwards to the Fourth Rail Bridge just outside of Edinburgh. When we arrived in Edinburgh we checked in to the last hostel of the trip which unfortunately was probably the ...
Trainspotting in the Birthplace of Harry Potter
... out of commission for a few days. Anyway, that left me free to explore around the city and take photos. The United Kingdom is great but I'm thinking I may need to mix it up a little and make it even more interesting by ...
Lassie turns religious
My new collie dog is turning religious. Seen here, near the Yangtze, in a temple viewing area . . ...
Lucky Tickets
... at the hostel. He was very jealous of them as he said he lived in Edinburgh and couldn't get tickets to the Tattoo. He didn't understand how they could so they told him he would need to book a holiday to Edinburgh through QANTAS to get tickets next ...
Fogmania and Hogmadoodle (Xmas and NYE)
... haunt us. More on that later, but it was nice to get some good photography in. As mentioned in a previous entry, Edinburgh has some pretty spectacular sights and architecture, which I promised to show you whilst the Vikings were in town. After ...
Scotland in winter - a new home. Brrr.
... it to London. More on that later... Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the traditionally troublesome northern part of the United Kingdom, and now home to a reasonably new Scottish Parliament. 600,000 of Scotland's 5 million or so inhabitants live ...
Closing shop
21 days to go! Ida and I have been rather busy over the past two weeks, winding down our jobs, arranging leaving do's, renting out our house, and receiving the last of our seven vaccinations. I, stupidly, as a result of my irrational fear of injections ...
Christmas!
... till the 27th (Happy Birthday James!) where it snowed more in London and delayed my flight back!! We wandered around Edinburgh and did some last minute Christmas shopping, Edinburgh being nicely uncrowded. We avoided the sales considering the three of ...
Last Minute Panic
... of people were asking what my itinerary was, so here it is as it stands at the mo: Monday 9th June Leave Edinburgh at the crack of dawn to fly to Moscow 2 days in Moscow Wednesday 11th June Leave Moscow on the Train Thursday ...
Less than a week to go!
Well this time next week I'll be on my way. I've had a really good weekend. Thank you to everyone who turned up to my party - it was good catching up with friends old and new, just sorry it's all over now, but I'm looking forward to going. I've just ...
Goodbye Dundee and Sam. Back to the open road...
... . I had heaps of laughs on the way down listening to 9 minutes of cartman quotes on paul's ipod. haha! We finally arrived in Edinburgh a few hours later and the weather was very chilly, but clear sky's again. Just like Dundee had been the last few ...
Edinburgh!!!!
... of wine pasta and pizza. Of course we managed to squeeze in a deep dried Mars bar on our way home! Couldn't leave Edinburgh without that. It was incredible! It sounds a little much but it was just lovely. Edinburgh was our favourite place so ...
Hidden pies within a fortress
... spent a couple of hours exploring the castle. The top of the castle looks over the city and gives an awesome view of Edinburgh (being its highest point). After exploring the castle it was such a nice day with blue skies, so we walked around ...
The First Step
Well I've taken the first step in planning my journey. I've booked a trip with Russia Experience to go across Russia on the Trans Siberian Railway leaving at the beginning of June, only 10 weeks away now. I've also booked a trip with Intrepid around ...
Bagpipes, Kilts and Stout
... time the sun started going down in London. This meant we had quite a bit of time to keep exploring Old Town of Edinburgh. We couldnīt help ourselves when we passed by a very old looking pub so we entered the low roofed place to sit for a ...
Last Stop in Britain, Edinburgh!
After a couple of hours on the bus in the morning we arrived in Edinburgh and found our way to our hostel. We ended up walking past it because it was down some stairs kinda hidden and there was only a small piece of paper with the name on it, ...
Edinburgh
David and Nicola's list Tuk tuk + oother 2 pounds Indonesia: 2 plaques with tounges 4 USD 1 bali figure 5 USD 1 buddah 3 USD (RON: Buddha face 7 ...
They Think It's All Over........
... seeing them both again, and strangely weird being back in Scotland. It's been quite a surreal month, I've seen cows in Edinburgh city centre, hob-nobbed with millionaires, given prizes to children at a local chess club's presentation night, and seen my ...
Edinburgh - Whiskey and Kilts Anyone.
... Jeeeek-eel not Jeckel as by Hollywood) as we wound through the alleyways and closes of Auld Reekie (the affectionate nickname of Edinburgh which basically means Old Smoky). May 01 - Monday Another glorious day. Again it's sunny with a few clouds but ...
