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Pre-Trip
I am so excited about going to Australia and becoming a teenager. It shall be great. Santa will come and he will give me lots of present, I hope! I've got one more day of school left and then we are driving to Manchester to get our flight at 2pm on Thursday. I think the flight is going to really bad because its 24 hours long. What am I going to do? I hope there will be a lot of movies and nice food. ...
Planning everything
... out in the Caribbean for a bit to fly to north brazil and go to the amazon first then travel down the coast to Salvador then inland to Brasilia and finally end up in the big bold Rio! Mark is flying to the Caribbean in the next week so we really need to get a proper backpack and some good walking shoes ASAP, shame I know nothing about things like that. Off to do some more research in to what we ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
... onto presumably relatives for dear life.
I'm sure people must have been thinking I was a tad deranged as I skipped merrily towards the departure gate with a huge grin on my face! Ironically, the sun was out in Glasgow for once, I figured in mockery for me flying out. But even the blue skies couldn't put a smile on the faces of those in the Departure lounge. The rows of sombre faces were more reminiscent of mourners at a funeral than a lucky bunch ...
Strollin' Through Scotland
... this area of Scotland is called the "Highlands"..because these mountains are tremendous! We stopped and hiked around for a while to take in the beauty and took a plethora of photos. We continued on to Loch Ness where we saw the loch and the town surrounding it. Loch Ness is quite possibly the smallest town I have ever visited, but had great fish and chips! We spent the night in Loch Ness and in the morning drove back through the highlands to get back to the ...
Overnight South of Glasgow
... there in 1692. However, "Gleann Comhann" does not translate as "Glen of Weeping". In fact the Glen is named after the River Coe which runs through it, and bore this name long before the 1692 incident. The name of the river is believed to predate the Gaelic language and its meaning is not known. One possibility is that it was named after a tribe ...
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