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Travel Blogs from St. Andrews
St Andrews and The Fishing Villages of Fife
... centre, and have lunch.
Heading homewards we travel across the Lomond hills, descending to Loch Leven (scene of Mary Queen of Scots imprisonment and escape) and on to the pretty little town of South Queensferry for a relaxing late-afternoon walk, before we return to Edinburgh.
Tour highlinghts: Aberdour, Anstruther, Pittenweem, Crail, St Monans, St Andrews, Loch Leven, South Queensferry, Forth Road and Rail Bridges.
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Couchsurfing, my new friend
... with my new German, English, Czech and other friends from several various countries, who I can hang out with. I think that for someone who wasn’t quite sorted out at the beginning, I’m doing pretty well.
Analysis/observation: When you travel for the first time, many things are stressful: airports, languages, money, etc. One of the most stressful things is that you don’t know who you can and cannot trust. The purpose of ...
Castles, Cathedrals and Cheese
... The bottle dungeon where the salted body of the cardinal was found is really quite nasty but according to the history I've read so was he. The last thing I was expecting was a small bunch of flowers and a note which had recently been left by some of his descendants.
Amazingly in the molly coddling, overprotective, paranoid nanny state that we seem to live in you are allowed to explore the remains of the tunnels that the attackers ...
Edinburgh
... made other really good friends. I was really tired and not so keen to go on the pub crawl, but I made myself go because so many people had told me how good Edinburgh's nightlife is! They were not wrong! I had the best night, and made really good friends as well!
The next day, I slept in for a while.... May have been a little intoxicated the night before. I got woken up by my Aunty Elspeth ringing me, because she was in Edinburgh doing her St Andrews First Aid because the Pope ...
Day 10: Edinburgh
You know what's faaaaantastic that we got to do today? SLEEP IN!! :) We were so exhausted from yesterday's excessive walking and hiking that we gave our bodies a rest until about 9:30. I was also reprimanded because my post about yesterday's hike was less than stellar, according to Bradley. So... to add to the post about the hike, WOW, it was the most PHENOMENAL thing EVER!! Actually, really, it was great. And none of the ...