The Lodge at Carfraemill Edinburgh

... 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

FINALLY, a real trip!

So randomly decided on Friday to accompany my friends on their Edinburgh day trip. Not for anything touristy, just to check out the place. Heard it was gorgeous, so why not?

After crawling out of bed at 5.30am, we got to the bus terminal for 7 and hopped onto the Megabus down to Edinburgh. Nice, quiet ride, nice little nap.. until they tell us that we have to change in Dundee. Ugh.

Out ...

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.

... and drapes to try to get some air circulation because I was about to sweat to death in the lower bunk. However, along with the air circulation came the smell of cigarette smoke. I tried my white noise machine. All I got was “party central” with a little bit of static on top. I tossed and turned. I never wished for air conditioning so much in all my life. I don’t think I slept for more than 30 minutes at time, and probably not more than 5 hours of solid sleep for ...

... in the night, you see... or something like that. Les Miserables. Ish.

Counting Down the Hours to Glasgow (T-minus 32 and counting). Also listening to 2 classmates talk about swords...(no, Sarah, not THAT kind... you are truly my soul mate, mind-wise). Also got a trio of veloceraptors in my Kinder Surprise.

Pictish Evidence Day 14: http://s672.photobucket.com/albums/vv82 /amj7348/Scotland%20Day%2014/

Ho oray for Wednesday,

Ashley

... they call "closes" and we walked down some of them. My favorite names were Fleshmarket Close and Cockburn Close... some vivid images of the past!! We went back to the hotel, checked in, and took a 2 hour nap before orientation started at 5:30. We went downstairs, got a general overview of what we would be doing for the next couple of days, met the Glasgow School of Art students and the Arcadia staff and then were taken out to dinner at a traditional American pizza place. Not ...

... Helping the girls purchase shoes and clothes has been one of the true highlights of his whole trip!!! The 4th day was back to Tricia at the conference and Ken, Nick and Alice discovering more of Edinburgh's delights. They located the fourth of Firth railway and road bridges. Now these bridges are a bit special to the Dempsey family because Nick actually had to complete a significant project on them back in ...

... 12 to the train station. We got there and had to buy another ticket to get to birmingham - turned out we couldnt use railcards since it was peak hours *******mit! All four of us ended up going to the same counter and he told each one of us that we couldnt get a discount - he got slightly annoyed by the end me thinks. Anywho, train to bham wasnt eventful. We had like half an hour to spare so people left me with the bags and went to Smiths to buy magazines and food. I just wanted to ...

... city. We take it as a sign for better things to come. We park the car at the airport and take a bus into the city. As we drive through the old town we see medieval cathedrals and cobblestone streets. We hike up a hill towards Edinburgh castle and towards what will be our home for the next three days. Our hostel is across the street from the castle, which is situated and built upon a hill. We duck into the small opening of ...

... bus, enduring the drivers torment, mockery and general lack of any sympathy! We spent the morning at a place called "Rogie Falls". Beautiful forest, where took a few pictures! Then was onto the highlight of my trip to Scotland, the Isle of Skye. We hit the "port" where the "ferry" goes to the Isle of Skye. This town was called the Kyle of Lochalsh, population: 23.5 We said our farewells to our group and boarded the "ferry". Err. This was no more than a little boat with an ...