well now tectonically last weekend was the edinburgh weekend, so you to the going over there post before last so i will describe what i know of edinburgh to the best of my retroflection.
as soon as we all got in and got our room assignments we were set free and didn't really see our teacher or house manager again till the end. the first day it was raining, i had brought my umbrella and rain coat.... you can't use umbrellas in edinburgh not if you like your umbrella. there were so many blown inside out umbrellas in the trash! mine was almost ruined but i turned it around in time to save it, so i had very very wet hair all day. so some wanted to just wonder around but i was cold and those streets were not very nice to walk on i was in my black boots which are not the best rain and cold shoes or walking over rough stuff in. so i wanted to find somewhere inside and one of the girls in our group wanted to go to the toy museum. it was pretty cool, there were a ton of old toys there and there were a few doll houses one of them was Queen Elizabeth II's house in wales electrical and everything! that didn't take that long to go through but we had gotten there a bit late in the day so we had to leave before we were completely finished because they were closing. so then we wondered around for a bit trying to find somewhere to eat. when we did find somewhere i got sausage and mash (potatoes) the others got stake pie, which looked and they let me have a bite tasted a lot like roast beef, we also tried hagus. hagus just has a really bad rep, it tastes a lot like sausage with a bit of a different after taste thats all we finished off the side dish of it that we got. i also had desert it was an apple crumble, but it didn't have brown sugar in it or cinnamon or any spices so it was good but could have been better.
i have figured two things that are essential for every hotel to have, 1 a comfortable bed most not let you feel the springs and 2 good smelling soap/ clean towels or at least make sure they are going to be dry if you live in a wet climate. this hotel had neither of those things... i might have been better sleeping on the floor, when you got on the bed you could hear the springs crunch under you and you could feel every single spring and when i got back the second day they had folded up my towels but they were still wet a wet towel is not very efficient in drying you off especially since it was like 24 hours later. the cool thing about that room was that they had heated towel racks (the sign next to it said caution might be hot do not touch, but since it was right next to the shower i thought that it might just get hot off the shower steam so i of course touched it to figure out what it was, not very hot but very cool! the second night it was much warmer and i needed that warmth!) and we had an amazing view outside our window! it looked out on the street and right across the street and a little to the side was sir walter scott's memorial it was a kinda creepy gothic ( he was a Gothic writer) and looked like a miniature cathedral steeple type thing. we could also see both old and new edinburgh which is gourgous! both me and my roommate were exhausted both nights so the moment we both finished getting ready for bed we turned out the lights and went to sleep at like 8 or 9 both nights.
on the second day we toured the castle then decided after eating lunch at the elephant cafe which is where j.k. rowling created harry potter that we would walk to the coast, we knew it was going to be a long walk but we thought we'd get to see a pretty sunset forgetting that we are in scotland where it is grey and overcast every day, and there would be a pretty beach type thing or at least some large rocks............ as we got close to the coast we started seeing docks and sketchy things like that.... someone then directed us to a not dock place where we might be able to see the sea and such but when we got there it was just the side of a road with a path running down beside it plus on the other side of us were more and more warehouses so we really didn't want to be there when the sun set plus you really couldn't even see the sun.... so we began our 9 mile trek back to our hotel, and at the first sign of a decent restaurant we collapsed and eat there. my feet and legs were killing me! so i did not go with the others to Aurthur seat which is a mountain climb which most of them fell at least once, instead i headed out to the one place i had been wanting to go the whole time the weaving mill to get my yarn! at first when i walked in i was very confused for just about nothing in there seemed to do with weaving, there was this creepy Gothic punk section and some random trinkets and sword type stuff, but you move a bit farther back and then you start getting to the lambs wool and cashmere then as you so through the exhibit (well sorta exhibit the official exhibit was closed) there was more and more tartan stuff but not until you get to the bottom do you find the yarn! they had huge amounts of it for ten pounds i didn't matter how much there was on the spool it was all the same price, unfortuatly the huge ones tended to have fine thread and i can't really use that for what i want it for but i found some awesome yarn that is black and white and red so now i just have to get my needles and i'll be ready for a project.
i spent most of the rest of the day shopping around finding deals getting gifts stuff like that :)
then we road back on the train about halfway through i got tired of being cut off for everyone else so i just went and stood in the aisle and talked with people in our group true i did have to keep moving out of the way for others who were coming through, like seriously do british people not know how to stay still? or at least stay in there general area? oh and we had this drunk lady who tried to take my seat but thankfully she got up without me having to tell her anything.the last adventure on our trip was a bright flash off to the side, i thought it might have been lighting so i tried to ignore it but it was not, it was something electrical with the train because not long after that flash the train stopped and we found out that the driver was going to have to walk to the back of the train and fix the problem they said it would only be a few min. they were wrong. it had to be close to an hour before we heard that the driver had fixed the problem and was not walking back to the front of the train, which apparently would take 10 min. we all then thought that our driver had to be old or infim or something cause how long could this train be? like really? but that was the last bit of excitement on the trip and we all got back safe and extreamily tired.
from lodon with love :)
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