Old Waverly Hotel Edinburgh

28th April 2008: Leeds - Edinburgh   We took the 11.05am train from Leeds to Edinburgh. Arrived at Waverly Station at approximately 2.18pm. Take note of our precise notation of the hour and minute - the British Rail system really did live up to ...

... a veggie pasty (it's a Friday) and an Irn Bru and waited for Sara, Elaine (Sara's friend from high school studying in Edinburgh this semester) and Penny (Sara's Scottish nanny) to arrive, reading The Leopard for my Comp Lit class. They called and told me ...

... that day) and looked adorably Scottish. It was a quick walk over to the student union of the University of Edinburgh where Arcadia had arranged a ceilidh for their freshmen considering studying abroad that we were all invited to. The ceilidh was really ...

... the sites of London and Cambridge it was good to have a bit of time to sit back and relax. I am staying at Edinburgh's Globetrotter Inn, a hostel about 15 mins outside of Edinburgh's centre, on the scenic banks of the Firth of Fourth. A short stroll ...

... lots of those bags piled up on the sidewalks, stuffed full of garbage, but at least it seemed mostly contained. I wondered if Edinburgh’s sanitation workers were on duty over the weekend; by Monday that stuff was going to be ripe.  I also ...