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Sur un air de cornemuse... Édimbourg
... et boarding pass en main, je passe les multiples contrôles haut la main (être canadienne, ça passe toujours bien!). 17h20, je m'envole vers Édimbourg.
*Mention aux douaniers beaucoup trop mignons et sympathiques de l'aéroport de Charleroi!
18h00 (décalage horaire d'une heure en moins), me voilà en Écosse. Première expérience sur les ailes de Ryanair réussie! Quel bonheur que d'entendre l'accent dès son arrivée et sourire. ...
The Jazz Bar
... his Isle of Skye kilt – I made it for him!
We spent the afternoon wandering around the festival watching the street performers and any other acts that were performing on the street. The sites you see are amazing – one couple were promoting their show – they were dressed in bath towels and sitting in a bathtub in the street. They must have been very cold!! We went to see our first show for the day. It was the Oxford ...
Rain Rain Go Away!
Again, this post doesn't have a specific date, in fact it is something that has been a trend the whole trip and in fact beyond this trip to this whole year to date!! Everywhere I go it rains!! In February in Hawaii it rained monsoon proportions! So much so that the day we left it was declared a state of disaster! The town we were near flooded! :( Then when I returned home it rained a whole bunch until I left on my trip to Europe - ...
Convinced to stay!!!
... choice for the night. Also I must be honest and say that I was heavily convinced by some Scots in a pub, they sold it so well :D Apparently this wasn't an event to be missed.
Yvette & Shannon decided to stay in Edinburgh as well so this meant I had some company over the next few days and with these ladies.. who knew what that meant. To keep ourselves occupied we planned on a trip to Glasgow in the coming days and then a couple of tours around Edinburgh.
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Walking down the royal mile
... even though I was late getting up, the
castle was not open yet and there was a bit of a line to get tickets.
Also I had noticed that there was a bit of construction work going on
– for the tattoo later in August.
While waiting in line the sun came out and it
got hot enough for me to take my jumper off. I got my ticket and went
for a wander inside the castle. I had a look at some of the regiment
museums, the various buildings, the war memorial ...