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Scotland VS England
Title:
Entry #3. Scotland VS England
Element of
analysis: Scotland independency
Description:
During my first weeks in Scotland, it was the 6 Nations Championship, which is
a rugby tournament between the countries of the United Kingdom and Italy and
France. As I was watching a game and talking with my friends, one of them told
me that here in Scotland, when their team is not playing, ...
Green Hills and Rugged Landscapes
... Many of the people were so friendly too! Yes, I couldn't understand the Scots have the time, but they didn't seem bothered by it. I don't know why I was so surprised to encounter so many nice and outgoing people in Scotland...for some reason I just had this notion that the city (in terms of its pace and population) would be more like London, or again some other capital city. Boy, was I wrong! The city is ...
Flying EWR-EDI
... a short wait at the UK Border inspection point, stopped at an ATM to withdraw 100 pounds ($153), and then found the Airlink bus stop right outside the terminal. Airlink Route 100, a double-decker bus, runs every 10 minutes from the airport into the city center for 6 pounds ($9.18) roundtrip.
Bus departed EDI at 8:05 and took 24 minutes to travel the eight miles to Waverly Station. After disembarking, I had a short walk up a large hill to find my hotel, the Barcelo ...
Scotland and London the 2nd
... it all, instead of being bustled along so that someone else can take their picture.
Scotland has a wealth of remarkable landscapes, and we were lucky enough to have pretty much uninterrupted sunshine to view them in. I can't remember it raining, and it was only cloudy once. Just about everyone on tour managed to get sunburnt, something that still doesn't fail to amaze me!
At Quiraing Pass, on Skye, the world was elemental. Fists of bare rock clawed up ...
Short Connection
We were barely in this city long enough to really say we visited Edinburgh. I had meant to spend more time here, but when it came to the choice between visiting Keri in Dundee and going to Edinburgh... I picked Dundee. =) Anyway, we still had to stop here on our way back to Dublin. We took a train from Dundee to Edinburgh, and then had an hour and a half to walk around the city ...


