Wonderful Scotland

coffee shop in royal mile

near the Edinburgh castle road


cute guys wear the skirt

come back on 14 Sep 2007

the trip during 9 to 14 Sep

this trip let me open my mind and eyes.
Scotland is gracefully and friendly country!
all people so kindly and easy chat with them!
though the price terrible high and the kaba is terrible disgusting
I still deep love Scotland~
this trip I took a lot of transportaion such as Tube, airplane, rail, coach and cab!
so funny! and so expensive! I found i spend almost half fee of whole in transportaion
especailly the train ticket and the one day bus ticket!
It is must book the rail ticket in advance(very very advance can save a lot of money!)
Edinburgh is a history city, almost over half the architecture was built over 500 years!
and the people still live inside ~~so amazing ! they are pround of their art, building, cultural and to be a scottlish~
to compare Londoner , they are so friendly and nice! many people are glad to answer us any questions.
這次在Edinburgh 我們一群女生瘋狂採買scarf and blanket
In high street and Royal Mile 充滿 scarf shops ，我們在緊湊的時間內，逛遍大大小小的shops，一間都沒放過!女人的戰鬥力在此刻全部發揮~~~
no matter the cahmere or lambswool scarf 都有很多樣式! 價錢也很廣!
I bought a cahmere scarf cost 15 pounds and 3 lambswool cost 13.3 pounds
and one blue color blanket only 5 pounds (開心的不得了!)
我發現scarf is made in scotland is more expensive than made in Uk
but the quality is a large different.

First day: 9 Sep 2007 ( Edinburgh)
wake up at 06:30 and departure at 7:00
we take the U3 bus to Uxbridge station then transfer to Victoral station
arrival in Victoral at 08:04
Take the train to Gatwick airport about 09:15
Arrival at Edinburgh airport near 13:00 (by bus to Castle hostel return ticket 5 pound)
after put the lugguage in hostel, we go shopping (buy a lot of scarves)~

Second day: 10 Sep (Lake District)
get going to rail station, buy the rail ticket to Oxenholme and tranfer to Mindermere (the train ticket soooooooooo expensive 45.9 pound!! 整個嚇到!)~
we are so lucky, when we drop off the train, we meet the shuttle bus (YHA ) can take us to hostel (it is free), near the noon , we arrive the Amebsidle hostel.
Then , we came back to train station, take the ferry '' Windermer Lake Cruises'' ( 45min/ 5.8 pound), house, tree and mountain around the lake!! really really shock us! whole of lake like heaven!! amazing heaven!
suprise me !! the bus driver off-duty on 17:30( 日子過的真爽ㄝ) ~so , we take the Taxi back to hostel ( total: 9.6 pound)

Third day : 11 Sep (Lake District : Keswick)
In the morning, we walk to the Almebside centre
take the 555 bus to Keswick (another small town), near 50 mins !
pass a lot of mountain and saw a lot of sheep( black , white sheep)
arrival there , we found , Keswick is very beautiful and old town! it is full of elderly people!
average age over 50 years old, 沿路都是老人與狗~\
in the evening , we back to Endinburgh

Forth day: 12 Sep (Scotland: highland)
today , we join the local tour , the guide is a scotland guy, he is driver and guid( very busy)
沿路highㄝ~比我們任何一位成員都開心! 可惜他口音太重，說的笑話很難懂!
不知名castle--> Lake--> COW-->Wisky factory ( 3 pound)!
看到牛時!sylvie整個發瘋! 狂照100 張吧!最後是牛累ㄌ!先走一步!他才捨得把相機收起來!!

Last day: 13 Sep (Edingburgh Castle)
9:00 arrive at door, find it is open 9:30 ~~(ticket 11 pound)
we back to scarf shop ! buy the scarf again!! again again!
leaving on 12 :30 and eat Burger king , we decide go to National gallery of scotland (coz it is free)
and then to Catheldral --> Museum of scotland !!
after tea time near 17:30 , we back to hostel to take the luggage.
Then take the bus to Endinburgh airport--> Getwick airport almost 23:30
due to the time!!we decide sleep in the airport and take the morning train back to Brunel!!
this is my first time sleep in the airport!! 我還睡得很沉! 代表我有當流浪漢的潛力!