Culdees Bunkhouse Perth

... already know all the best spots!

We plan to visit Edinburgh before going onto London. As my husband is of Scottish heritage. I need MUCH advice on getting around Edinburg, Scotland without driving ourselve. We only have a few days before we head down to London so we would like to maximize our time there without being frantic

312 miles - set off at some un-Godly hour to drive from Chesterfield to Fife, Scotland to watch football! Trish likes the journeys but thinks the idea is crazy. Anyway, we are here now! Prior to the match we walked around the town - NOT Scotland's biggest attraction. Anyway, 2:30pm and I arrive at the ground ready for the match. One stand is fairly ...

... 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

Today, I was planning to go to the youth hostel at the castle, but the Land Rover had other plans!!!

Oh dear, game over! I popped out to start the Land Rover this morning at around 9am and the engine was smoking like a trooper and sounding a lot worse than it normally does. I called the AA at around 10:00 and they turned up at at around 10:45 from a local garage. He told me that the engine is fairly terminal (piston problem ...

... br>elderly men were running with 12 year olds, but it gave it a real family supportive atmosphere. Even in the strength events, there were many father/son teams. The fathers, clearly with a great amount of expertise, would cheer on and help their inexperienced sons with the events.
Lastly, the other favorite event there is Tug-of-War. There were 6 teams competing. Each team had about 6 people and each was strategically placed according to their size to provide the best ...

... London in the dark at about 5:30 am. As our luggage went on to Edinburgh we didn't have any problems there but we did have to answer many questions at boarder control to make sure we weren't going to stay in their country and steal their welfare. Bernie's cousin Anthony who has been in Edinburgh for about 12 months picked us up from the airport (which had a Dixons- all Booshites see the photo) and escorted us home on the airport shuttle. After some refreshing ...

... Most of the time when people speak to me I have to ask what they said about 3 times, because it does not sound anything like English. I often overhear people talking and wonder where they are from and then discover they are Scots and speaking English that I can barely pick up 3 words from a whole paragraph and I thought undestanding people from India was difficult... I will try to send photos tomorrow.

... We climbed uphill on a wide cobblestone street, called the Royal Mile, filled with tiny souvenir shops selling kilts or every plaid color imaginable. There were traditional pubs which looked to be older than the city itself and we even passed a Scotch whiskey bar where tourists could taste the different types available. Chocolate shops and old tea houses serving scons on white china placed on laced ...

... far end blocked by a grill. This had been fitted to prevent him losing tennis balls down the uncovered exit! The Reformation (rise of Protestantism) began in Perth in 1559 when John Knox gave a sermon in St John's Kirk. There has been a church on this site in the centre of the city for at least a 1000 years. The present building dates from the 15thC but was restored in the 1920s. The city was occupied by Montrose in 1644 and by Jacobites in 1689, 1715 and 1745.

... who also owned a canal boat... & 3 absolutely adorable *****es! ( dun u call a female dog a *****? lol!!). Anyway I was chatting with Mark & sharing my wonderful experiences in Merseyside & Liverpool in the last couple of days. He was a friendly lad, with a cheerful disposition. I think he really fancied me... cos he said he didn't mind adopting me!! but Derek warned him that I was high maintenance! lol! Mark also reckoned that I wouldn't have ...