Dear all,
firstly before i forget i loaded a couple of new photos on..they are in the scotland and ireland albums..will maybe try and load a few more later.
We were so wrecked yesterday afternoon, especially after the huge day on the tour. we were planning on getting an early night, but when we came back to the room 4 guys from a punk rock band from israel were sharing our room. They were so chatty and heaps of tatoos and stories they were sharing..ended up bleaching their mohawks for them and only getting 3 hours sleep because we were up again at 4.30am to catch a taxi to get to the airport for our flight at 8am. Once again a ridiculously short flight, we spent longer at the airport and collecting our luggage then we did on the actual flight.
Edinburgh is beautiful, its already ranking on my favourite cities. We hadnt even planned to come here, but now were planning when we can come back. theres an awesome mix of history, new town and old town, gorgeous parks, weird food, whisky and everything else fabulous about the scots..tartan and shortbread. Our hostel is really nice as, huge rooms and a nice kitchen.
Day started really well..by chance guess who we came across who was also visiting edinburgh just down from our hostel?? any guesses??...the QUEEN!! the actual queen with white gloves waving to everyone, she was here to knight some people and we saw her going into the church..well correctly we saw her hat and heard "god save the queen" and someone else photo they snapped of her, but in our photos you cant really see much,but we were still excited to see the queens hat!hooray!
For our only day in edinburgh we went on the free walking tour of the city, covered ALOT of stuff, edinburgh castle, 650million years of scottish history, politics, famous writers, the writer of hykel and jyde who loves the whore house, stole a ridiculous amount of money by being a locksmith and copying peoples keys and then stealing everything, then because he was part of the town council he was put in charge of finding the criminal stealling everything, dodgy bugger was eventually found out and hung at the place that he ordered be built as a councilman...hehehehe. our tour guide had some awesome stories...maggie was hanged for concealing a child which was highly illegal..but she came back to life after being hanged and because they couldnt hang her again because she'd technically already been hanged for the crime..double jeopardy..so she was allowed to live and went on to build a pub in front of the place she was hanged so she could watch everyone else be hanged..yay.
its a great city and were definately coming back. tomorrow we have appointments to get our national insurance numbers which are like tax numbers, then catching the bus to pitlochry where were getting picked up and taken to the caravan park where were going to spend the next couple of months.
weather has been beautiful.
really tired after 3 nights of 4 hours or less sleep each night..
love to everybody, love jess xoxoox
