Today was my last day in Edinburgh. I've had an absolutley great time here, I'm really glad I decided to come. I'll definitely be back for the comedy festival in the future. I just spent the morning recovering from a hangover from last night so I had a big greasy breakfast at a place across the street from the hostel. I met Eldan there just as I was on to my third course of a sausage bacon and egg muffin. Yes, it was good. After that we just started walking aro...

Today was day 3 of my highlands bus tour so it was another early morning wake up. Our first couple of stops today were at a couple of Glens, which is Gallic (old Scottish language) for valley, called Glen Shiel and Glen Garry. They were both really beautiful but it was extremely cold and there was a cold wind as well. There were actually little frozen puddles at all. Next we went Commando Monument, which is a monument to all the soldiers who have died from a sp...

Today was day 2 of the bus tour around the highlands of Scotland. Everyone was quite tired after having to wake up early again to leave by 8. Our first stop, however, woke everyone up very quickly. We stopped at a place called Sligachan (pronounced Slayakin) where the is a creek with water that is meant to keep you looking young. So it's a Scottish tradition, I guess, that they dunk there faces in the water for 7 seconds or just 3 times in a row. So Neil of cour...

Today I woke up at 7am, which is way too early, to get ready to go on the 3 day bus tour. We left at 8am and had the safety instructions given to us by our bus driver Neil in a very funny way, then the 20 of us set off for the Highlands. We drove for aboutan hour and a half before stopping at a little town called Dunkeld to have a look around quickly and have a quick bite to eat/ get supplies for dinner. I just went to an old church that Neil had suggested to go...

Today was just a reasonably quiet day. I spent the a couple of hours this morning just doing a couple of things on the computer but after that I headed out in to a light drizzle to go to Arthur's seat, which is a large cliff face that looks down over the city. It was still raining a bit when I got there. I saw a path leading up to the top when I first got there that looked quite steep but I couldn't see any other paths so I dedcided to just go up that one, even ...