Rendezvous with friends at last!
Trip Start
Jul 26, 2005
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Trip End
Nov 01, 2005
Dundee,
United Kingdom
Thursday, October 13, 2005
I'll start on the 13th when my best friends which i hadn't seen in so long rocked up. I got up and went to Danielle's aunty Pam's house again for the last time before heading shopping. That sonic game - haha! Yes we bought it... Absolutely stoked :-) haha one funny thing, we were in this 'surf' shopt which i thought was a bit bizzare in northern scotland, and was looking for a pair of boardies as i managed to loose my previous pair in Florence. COuld not find any for the life of me, the lady & Sam started having a huge laugh at me, coz i didnt think that who in their right mind would be wearing boardies in Northern Scotland! haha!
The day was heaps crisp and clear on today with absolutely beautiful skies, but as winters just around the corner, very cold. We had a coffee with one of Dan's Grandmas sisters & then took dan's aunties house to meet some more family. All seemed very nice... They lived on the other side of the Firth of Tay river, a couple of streets away from the waters edge. We cruised to the fish and chip shop (or "chippery" as they call it here), where she bought us dinner & a bottle of wine before heading back to her actual cottage to consume :-) Her little cottage area was only 20 minutes drive but seemed like it was in the middle of no where. It seemed like we were driving through thick green rolling highlands and all of a sudden a little group of houses appeared. Scenery was so beautiful. The air being so clean and the colours so much richer with the royal blue sky behind the green rolling pastures. Matty, Dan, Paul & his new girlfriend arrived in Dundee the messaging pidgeon informed us, so we organised to meet up at the Social (pub) in the next couple of hours. Nice little funky pub with a nice lounge area to chill out in. We got dropped off there, met Sam, Holly (dan's cousin our age) and Fiona (Sams friend) which is pregnant but none of us are meant to know... haha! We all had a few drinks and waited for my mates to arrive. I ended up chatting to the bar guy which is from Oz as well, and all of a sudden they finally arrived!! It was soooo great seeing them again!!! Matty and Dan which i havn't seen in 3 months and are just starting their European adventure. Paul in which i havn't seen in 6 months as he set off sailing across the Atlantic ocean. His girlfriend which i hae never met. Us 3 best mates were finally together again! It seems so long ago since we were out the back of our mates home back in Adelaide, Australia over a few beers wondering where we'll be in the world when we all meet up again!! A great day it is today!!! haha, to top it off, as soon as we ordered a beer, Bob Marley "could you be loved" started cranking over the speakers! haha... We all exchanged amusing stories over quite a few beers. An hour or two had passed before we all decided to head to "Fat Sam's". The rest of the night was kinda, a bit of a blur for us all... Fat Sam's being a double story night club packed on each level with different types of music. Some of what i can remember was dancing like an absolute minder with a bunch of girls we didnt know & getting pictures our pictures taken :-) Was the funniest thing!! Now, after i was told us 3 blokes were chucking these huge construction cones around, and the word "police" was mentioned in there somewhere? - i have no idea... BUT a top night it was!!
...The Aftermath!!
The next i woke with a "ERRRRR!!!" and a big one at that. I knew straight away that there's no way i'll be heading up to Inverness to see lachness as we'd planned! Little bit disapointing, but a good reason to return to scotland in the future as i'll be leaving the country the day after. haha throughout the day 'the moan' count was rediculously high! Everyone constantly going "errrr!" all day long - was funny in a sick kind of way :-P So i spent the day watching documentories and researching information on the earths magnetic field haha... We had 2 large pizza's that night from Domino's & when the guy got too the door he charged us 25 POUNDS!!! (approx $60 AUD)!!! Absolute Extortion!!! Thats with no drink or garlic bread either! back home it'd cost around $20 (approx 8 pound) and you'd get drinks and garlic bread with that too..
*Note to self: do not buy pizza in Scotland ever again*
Tomorrow morning up early to meet the others and catch a bus to Edinburgh.
Nighty Night!.
a beautiful day 01
