Ballantrae Hotel Edinburgh
8 York Place Edinburgh, Scotland, EH1 3HP , United Kingdom
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Scotland- Edinburgh and the Highlands-Part I
(Thursday)12/2/09 - Thursday at 6:00pm our train departed from Kings Cross Station(Harry Potter!). For some reason, Sir Darren Nigel Goldberg III of Maida Vale and I thought that leaving the flat at 5:10 for our estimated 20 min tube ride (thetube.com is my new favorite website, that and xe.com the currency converter page, cmt is still my homepage …
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Day 21 - Edinburgh
... was interesting – they squeezed five cars into a very small space accessed by a really narrow driveway. It was incredibly difficult for the driver to exit the car except for the French man who had a left hand drive car. Only the last car in could actually get out. Lucky we were able to catch buses around to the sights, or we walked. We found a laundrette and paid for the lady to do our washing the next day while we saw the sights. ...
Hogmanay
... bus man helping people out and he suggested we get one that would stop just around the end of the street. Unfortunately when we got there it turns out the street was a couple of miles long and all up hill! Not so great with a cold and at 1:30am. A fun night all in all and something to add to the list of things we have done.
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Room 311, The Old Waverley Hotel, Edinburgh
... his element and I think we’ll be back to Scotland more than once.
I hope so too, it is enlivening to be here, visit with mum and Nannie. She was so pleased and made much of us being Henderson’s just as she had been before she was married. Hopefully it will be not so long that we will again and maybe with another generation of Henderson’s in tow. But now Paris beckons....12 sleeps in 5 beds and a plane. ...
If thats the worst that happens....
June 6, 2009
As I round out my 2009 travels, I find myself in Edinburgh, Scotland, the only place on this trip I've visited before. I always wanted to come back here (and at one point had plans to move to this city!) so its nice to be somewhere familiar on my last stop before home. It wasn't without conflict that I got here though - and I suppose if the following is the worst that happens to me on my 3 month trip through Tanzanian ghettos, the hectic bazaars ...



