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Edifying Edinburgh
... We also got a headful of information on the succession of royalty in Scotland over the years. Unfortunately, we didn’t retain too much of it, since by this time in our trip, we had already used up our quota of brain cells. The blur that comes with weeks of immersion in historical facts, buildings, archaeological sites, etc. had set in, so our response was akin to the following: "oh look, more armour, more bedchambers, more cannons, more prisons, ...
One More To Go
... on stage. I am very proud of him. He did not complain or make excuses, he just came and did an outstanding job.
We are set for our final performance tonight and I know the group will be excited but slightly melancholy. This has been an incredible emotional and physical grind that has tested all their limits. I truly believe that they have grown from this as actors and as people.
OK.
One last one to go!!
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Scotland and a Haggis Bus Tour
... contacts that they have had of a creature that has a body more than 3m wide and over 70 tonnes. They can't measure the length as the sonar doesn't have the capacity. He said that they have had 1500 sonar contacts in the 9 years they have had the sonar. They have even had multiple creatures on the screen a the same time so evidently there is more than 1 Nessie! By our fourth day, we were all so sick of the wet that our plans changed dramatically. W were supposed to start the day with ...
Lille to Edinburgh
... and is noted as one of the founders economics.
Princes Street is being dug up at the moment (in preparation, as we understand, for the laying of tram-lines), which means that the whole area works as a largely unimpeded pedestrian zone. We eventually found a bookshop in George Street (parallel to Princes Street, rather than being a continuation, as in the Edinburgh of the South) – a Waterstones’, and before we ...
Beers Souvenirs and Whiskey
Well that sounds good to me!! I did a LONGGG tour yesterday! Got there at 745 got back just after 8 pm! We had a GREAT tour guide/driver he was from Scotland so he had a magical storytelling voice!
Did you know how disgusting Edinburgh used to be!!! They were superstitious to go outside the old town so the population grew to be huge. At night people used to throw open their windows and throw out onto the street whatever bathroom ...