To all of the Becky in Spain subscribers! You're in luck Becky will not be writing about the past few days I (Steph) will be!!
To start, Scotland was absolutely beautiful. As soon as we got there, we felt immediately more at home and in tune with it than London...even though it was seven am after an all night bus and we were very tired! We started the morning with a quick nap at the Hostel and then when we woke up it was sunny and gorgeous so we went for a walk. We walked up to Edinburgh castle (didn't go in) and also walked around a lot of the city and did part of a walking tour which was interesting. We did a quiz night (trivia) at one of the local pubs which was fun even though we lost...we were quite upset because the people who came in second last always get a prize and it was quite neck in neck for us. We also went to the national gallery--they had a town and city exhibit which was quite fantastic because it shows old paintings and drawings of the city/surrounding towns and comparing it to now was pretty neat. We also saw just a lot of old painting but it was very interesting. We had this favorite place to have lunch called Auld Jack's pie shop-- and had some 'jacket potatoes' (different types of stuffed potatoes) and there were a variety of meat and fruit pies as well that was delicious. Becky tried Haggis!! Thats right folks, first morning in the hostel becky got a 'traditional' Scottish breakfast and even tried some Haggis--she said it tasted kind of like sausage--I was not so adventurous.
Alright - This is Becky taking over because we started writing that last blog post a long time ago and by now there's even more to catch up on!
So yes, Edinburgh was really great and the weather cooperated somewhat so we got a few good photos which I'll put up at some point.
We then took a bus up to the highlands, to Inverness (we actually caught this one no problems!) and we were picked up from the station by our host at the house we were staying at (Margaret) who is this absolutely lovely scottish lady who lives in a dream mansion just outside the town with her husband and her mom. Their son has just gone off to college so they've started doing the airbnb. Anyhow, we stayed there for 2 glorious nights where she fed us the biggest breakfasts ever and we spent our one and only full day there doing many things - a tour of lochness and the castle urquhart was definitely one of the highlights of the whole trip! We didn't see Nessie, but we had a nice boat ride around the lake (did you know that you can fit the entire population of the world in that lake 3x over? and it is 250m deep!) The castle is in ruins but very beautiful and the colours are just amazing - the whole bus ride up there was so interesting to see the landscapes and the fall leaves. The town of Inverness itself is really quaint and nice, and we did a nice walk around there as well - in some ways its' a bit like the Inverness in Canada, but not completely. They are both on the water, they are both in the northern tip, they have similar kind of feels but obviously the one in Canada is much more a dying town. Anyhow. She woke up our last day at 6am to feed us and take us back to the bus station where we took the bus to the Edinburgh airport - stephanie had her first discount airline experience (she may have hated this even more than hostels hahah) and that night we were back in Barcelona!
Barcelona came and went really fast because it was Maricelas birthday/costume party and also we had to move all my stuff out of my house. So that took up quite a bit of time. We are now staying in the Girona countryside in a house that is nowhere really near anything (except there is a bus stop to take you only 1.4km away) and we did a really lovely walk last night, the host Mireya and her husband carl are so nice, we have full use of the kitchen and everything and today I think we will venture into Girona since it's a holiday week and we should take advantage of the days that things are open.
More to come later!
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