So now that our adventure/final vacation together is over I thought I should share the experience with you. The UK was lovely. As soon as I got there I loved it. It was love at first sight!
So let's start with the flight to Edinburgh. We flew out of Paris Beauvais, which is not in Paris btw. We flew in at around 11 pm and we had to navigate to our hostel via bus and our feet. We stayed at some hostel in Edinburgh for the night and in the morning we hopped on a bus to Inverness. Inverness was lovely--grey and gloomy--but lovely all the same. We counted churches on our walk through the city one day, and if I'm not mistaken, we got to 10 within the same area (how many churches do you people need??). On our last day in Inverness we bussed it over to Loch Ness. It has some of the most stunning views there. And no, no Loch Ness monster--Nessie was on vacation that day.
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| No that is not Nessie in the photo, that is in fact a boat. The more you know... |
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| High Street in Edinburgh. Y'arr! Thar be sun in dis here picture! |
Once we were back in Edinburgh I made my friends go with me on a ghost tour!! DUN DUN DUUUNNN! Nah, it wasn't that scary. If anything, I was more scared of the environment we were in then the ghosties themselves. Our fantastic tour-guide Ian so kindly told us that the water dripping from Edinburgh's Underground Vaults (which we were about to go into) were toxic. Lovely. He told us there were rats there. Awesome. People get attacked in the prison we were visiting. Beauty. Anything else? Oh ya, it was raining that night and there are lots of hills covered in cobblestone streets--which are totally not slippery when wet! Bring on the ghosties baby! Aaaaannnnnnnnnnnddd there were none. So we went home. haha kind of an uneventful story, eh? We ventured back to Greyfriar's cemetery that we had visited on the ghost tour, during the day of course. Our tour-guide told us that many characters from the "Harry Potter" series were inspired by names found in that cemetery. We tried finding them, especially Tom Riddle, but we just couldn't find them! So near the entrance we saw some people who looked like they worked there. Oh boy were they characters....they made many, jokes I guess is the word, with us--awkwardness ensued. But they were actually pretty funny. They were also tour-guides with the same company that Ian worked for, except they weren't working at that second so they offered to show us the graves. Along the way they kept making fun of each other--complete with some rather witty remarks about one of the guide's back that was ailing him. For those of you who were there to hear that joke....I think you know what I'm saying when I say "ZING!!". We saw the various graves and I can safely say that I indeed found Tom Riddle (minor spelling differences than what was on the grave but who cares...). Humour me whilst I say this, "I FOUND VOLDEMORT!" But anywho, after some wandering around Edinburgh, trying some whiskey (which I do not recommend), trying some haggis (not that bad actually, although now I think they make it with good meat and not the bits no one wants) we said "see you later" to our lovely German friend Florian and hopped on a bus to London.
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| VOLDEMORT!!! |
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