Arrived here this afternoon. Not a city that made any impressions to me, I gotta say. Feels kinda hollow and soulless, in some way. I liked Edinbourgh much more, it had a character, and this doesn't somehow. Ok, this is more of a "working class city", but nevertheless. Our hotel, Citizen M, is a nice, modern kind hotel, clean with simple lines. I like. Went to look for good food/steak, etc. We ended up to the T.G.I Friday's, which was said to be one of the best i...

Today we went to see the Edinburgh Castle. The castle was nice, but eather smaller, too, what we had expected. The Scottish crown jewels are there, so maybe that's the reason for the relatively expensive entrance fee(14£!). But gotta say that they weren't worth it, and neither they weren't worth their stupud display: narrow, low and way too long corridor going like a snake along the tower. Along the corridor there was just very poor quality painting about the ...

Went to see the Stirling Castle & the village. The whole journey (rtn tickets) cost only 34£ for four persons altogether, only 8,5£/person, so it was much cheaper than we had expected! Nice surprise :) Nice train ride, too, and you can see some Scottish countryside from the window during it. Fast train, too. The journey took about an hour. Pretty short walk to the castle. The castle itself was smaller than we had expected, but it was nice. And from the cast...

First day in Scotland. Nice town, this one, it seems. Today we've just wandered around and been eaten pub food, but quite good pub food. Walked to the Edinburgh Castle, but since we were there at 5 pm&it closes at 6 pm, we decided to go there on another day. The pub at our apartments' downstairs is called "The World's End", just like the one in that Sandman comic book (one of my favourite stories in The Sandman, btw), where Dream and Hob Gadling meet once in...

Ok, done some shopping here at the airport, some good whisky and Holland cheese. Didn't find proper sized bottle of Genever, though, since I don't want to drag 2 litres it with me.. :P It's nice to go home again <3 And after about 3 weeks I'm on the road again, this time to the UK&Northern Ireland. :) Untill then!