Edinburgh Hogmanay 31st December 2009 - 4th January 2010 This will be fairly brief as it is over 2 months later that I'm writing this and trying to remember what we got up to! We were up at a decent hour on New Years Eve, considering how late we'd arrived the night before. We found Matt and Jodie and set off in search of a breakfast before heading up to the Royal Mile. We made our way right to the top near the castle and found the first pub of the day. We ...

An Autumn in London October - November 2009 So after arriving back into London we had booked 3 nights at a dodgy little hotel in the outskirts of London, near Wembley Stadium. We had done a little bit of looking for somewhere to live while we were travelling but it was just too hard to organise. Anyway, we'd, oops, I should say I'd done lots of looking on the Internet, and emailed and called a few people and set up times to go see places on Monday. We set o...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Edinburgh - Post trip - 8-10th August 2009 Alright, so Edinburgh during the festival is insane. Absolutely crazy. People just walking everywhere, and the Royal Mile is jam packed with buskers and street performers and groups doing bits out of their shows. I cannot compare it to anything else I've ever seen. It was just mental. On the day after our tour ended we just strolled up and down the Mile and were handed enough flyers ...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 5 of Highlands tour - Oban to Edinburgh - 7th August 2009 The last day. The first stop was at Carnassarie Castle not far out of Oban. It was just a shell, but pretty cool, to climb up and around it. We didn't stay here long as there wasn't much to do.We had a toilet stop in a little place called Killmartin, which across the road had a little church with graveyard. They had some tombstones displayed which date right back to...

Haggis, Highlanders and Hairy Coos Day 4 of Highlands tour - Isle of Skye to Oban - 6th August 2009 Day 4 saw some beautiful weather again as we headed off Skye. We stopped for a few photos as we got off the island, and we stopped again for more photos back at Eileen Donan Castle as the weather was much better for photo taking than the first time we were there. We also did a couple of group photos which will get emailed back to us. We also did a Taiwan group ph...