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Travel Blogs from Dunoon
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
... go somewhere just because it's pre booked. We have a few books on brazil and South America so I think we will be relying on them a lot while we are there. I have also got a very fitting travel journal to write everything so as I can put it on the blog later. I have created this so as family and friends can keep up with our progress and we can remember everything too. The plan so far is once ...
Leaving Haggis Land!
Even though today was the big day I didn't really feel nervous or excited about the fact I was leaving Baltic Scotland indefinitely, just taking it as if I was just nipping to Edinburgh on the train really. Saying goodbye to mum and dad and the brother at the airport wasn't nearly as emotional as I envisaged it to be, even if mum was a little bit teary as I headed through security. But it was nothing compared to the bunch of kids who were wailing inconsolably ...
Time-Travelling Loch Lomond
... and an American table. This is really where I met Tom and Aagje, the speedy-walkers I mentioned yesterday. From Belgium, they were at the Dutch table with an older Dutch couple. At the American table, Pat and Mike from Arizona…and me! All nine of us chatted while Fiona and Neil bustled about cooking an array of breakfasts – orders had been taken last night.
Pat and Mike are clearly outdoorsy people and are walking the ...
Genna - Introducing Scottish Thanksgiving...
... ago and at the time we had thought that it would just be the three of us. But as the date approached and we got more excited about having someone over at our flat we started inviting more people. Come D-day we were up to 6 – Kate, her roomies, and three people from school. Luckily (because our flat is small and we don’t have seating for 8 people) there were some cancelations and only 3 of our friends were able to ...