The White Swan Hotel
Travel Blogs from Duns
Haste Ye Back With Open Arms
... get a seat were munching take out fish and chips by the marina as we walked home. Good thing it wasn't raining. It also helps that the sun is up until after 10PM.
Next morning we set off to drive around the Isle of Skye. Driving north from Portree the scenery is spectacular. Set off early to avoid the tour buses. Past the Old Man Storr rock, Kilt Rock and Duntulin Castle the road narrows to one of those polka dot roads I told you about. This ...
The last days
... soak in the sun beaming through the windows of the porch-turned-sitting room. After my second cup of tea, Bert and I got in the car and he proceeded to give me a great tour of the surrounding area. We visited Musselburgh Links, the oldest playing golf course in the world, which means that I was wrong this entire time about St Andrews! But Bert grabbed a few brochures so stuff in my pockets and made sure that I promise to ...
The Past Three Weeks....Full of Ups and Downs...
... which is an interesting book. I also went out with a group of students that were still here to a club called Frankenstein which has been around for a long time. I really liked this club and it was a lot of fun. We all looked out for each other and made sure we were doing alright. We met an Australian guy who told us his opinion of Americans has gone way up in a good way and we also met a group of Irish boys who were very cute from Cork and we just had a good time with all of ...
A GREAT end to the week...
... something from home that is what we all think in the palace. On Thursday, I and another student in the program Adam went to see Shout. It is a 60's themed musical. It was awesome and I had a lot of fun. The actors had a lot of fun doing the musical. You could tell they were having fun and they got us the audience involved with clapping and singing. It was an awesome show. Then we got on the bus to head back to the palace and ran into two others from the program who went to ...
A Month in Scotland...
... because they were quiet during the presentation." I had fun talking about Wisconsin and showing them where I come from and things about me. My internship is going well. Thursday was the first full day of the extended weekend and most students were gone except a few who were doing a Highland tour that started on Friday so we went out for dinner. Dinner was nice and it was also nice to hang out and just relax. After dinner we got a fire started and it was a fun time just hanging ...