Peat Inn Cupar

We are visiting the UK and Norway at the end of May and first part of June in 2010. I have never been to Europe and am very excited about it.

Our daughter has been attending Kingston University this past year so we are going to see her, travel and pack her up to come home. We have family in Stavanger so we don't need hotels and ...

... but one side has nothing - it's just bare and exposing a monstrous building left from the time when the area mined coal from under the sea. I ask a guy sat next to me what the building is used for now and he tells me that it's going to be dismantled but requires a lot of money and asbestos specialists to take it down. The coastline will look ...

... is screaming for mercy. Found some very nice cookies though, yum!

Time for some wandering! We didn't hit the Royal Mile unfortunately, but we did get a good wander up and down Princes Street. Waiting around in Pizza Hut for some food, just having a general laugh.. who needs to be touristy when you get the full-on local effect?

And the best part was.. SNOW! Very random and very light, but it was there :)

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom kilgiraffe

Fun trip to Murrayfield for Scotland v Fiji.....lots of happy Scottish faces after the win, boys in fancydress, stag parties galore, chuc-chucs ferrying folks home in the rain, great cocktails in an Italian Jazz bar and running to catch last train back home on a busy busy Saturday night train heading South.

... a long time. We explore a ruined castle on a hill to watch the sun set- and then brave eating fish and chips near the water....it is getting alittle to cold so we head to a bar to warm up with a drink. Loch Ness.- we wanted to climb Ben Nevis- the tallest mountain in Scotland- (sadly Donna hurt her ankle badly before leaving London, so that adventure has to be put on hold for another time.) We are heading towards Inverness but not before going for a brave swim ...

... because of the two people I am traveling with. Then I was in the ballroom Wednesday night, doing homework and chatting with some people from back home and then one of the guys in the program was drunk and decided to bug me and asked me to go to the pub with him and I told him no and he kept insisting. Then he insisted I was judging him because he was drinking and I said no then he asked another person in the room if I was judging him and the person ...

... city since leaving London! It has a population of some 100,000+ people however the hostel only opened for two months during the summer so after a visit to the Information Centre (which was quite unhelpful as their accommodation booking service was nothing more than handing us a brochure and telling us to go through it ourselves) we found a great little B&B only a couple of blocks away and checked in there for three nights. The owners of the B&B were in the process of ...

... I headed out and just wandered around for a few hours. Beautiful city. Plus August is a big month of festivals so there are tons of people around. I decided to come to Edinburgh because of the festivals. At the moment the Fringe Festival is going on. It's the largest Fringe Fest the in the world (Edmonton's in the second largest I believe) and its amazing. Basically you can see a wide range of show from stand up comedy to drama to alternative theatre ...

So here I am on the 6:00am shift. **** I tell you ****!! The super intelligent night staff member before me has screwed around with things yet again and I now have no sound so it will be a silent 8-hour shift. I mean seriously if it ain't broke - LEAVE IT ALONE. If there is nothing to do at night, just have a nap, it would save the dayshifters all the trouble trying to find what you've hidden away from us, fix what you've broken, and decifer your muddled reservations in our system ...

... our way to the Scottish Art Gallery. This place was pretty good, and it had some cool stuff in it, including some stuff done by Monet and Van Gogh, which was quite cool to see. After the art gallery we made our way back to the hostel, got our bags packed up and made our way to the bus station ready to catch our bus up to Dundee, where we will be meeting up with Danielle and Clint. Cant wait!