Edinburgh

I'm typing this post on an hour of sleep while in the air on route to Amsterdam. We're pretty tired right now due to the early flight and loud Edinburgh Friday nights, nevertheless we enjoyed the old city of Edinburgh.

Some things to consider if you're visiting Edinburgh:

1. A tourist is a tourist is a tourist. Coming from the quiet country side in the Highlands, see all the tourist shops again was... annoying? Edinburgh was a big tourist stop, but one worth it.

2. Live music is not necessarily good music. Almost every pub had live music every night. Walk by places once the music starts so you can hear a bit before committing to a place.

3. Edinburgh Castle is a long stop. There is so much to see in there! Don't let it stop you from going but give it the time it needs.

Day 1: it took us about 4 hours on a bus from Aviemore to get to Edinburgh. Every time I thought we'd turn onto a highway into the city we would go around the round a bout into some little village. Some of them were quite beautiful, but we were ready to get off the bus. Once in Edinburgh we got terribly turned around from the bus station. We were starving and looking for our hostel as to not take our tiny human sized bags into a restaurant with us. Thanks to the gigantic Edinburgh Castle looming over us, we finally realised we had to turn around. We checked into our hostel and went on a hunt for Indian food (you can only have so much pub food before you are sick of it). The place we wanted to try was closed until 5, so to kill time Jordon got a new do from a nice Turkish man. After supper we explored Edinburgh a little more and found a pub with live music...well the real reason we ended up in this pub is the 20% off drinks for us poor people, but also live music. We listened to this man with an eye-patch for about an hour before heading off to bed.

Day 2: Edinburgh Castle was first on our stop this morning. When we walked outside the sun it our faces which was literally a warm welcome. We walked down to the castle, paid with our right arms to get in ($60) and made our way to the FREE tour (I love that word). There was a lot of items from wars that the Scots fought in. My dad would have loved this place while dragging us along. After 3 hours in the castle, we headed to the People of Scotland session where you could spend two hours looking up your family history. We found out Jordon's great great great (great?) Grandfather was a shoemaker. So there's that. We explored the city a bit more before making supper and packing our bags for Amsterdam.

The plane is descending now and before I make it explode with my phone, I'll call it a day.

We'll see how well I can write a post while in Amsterdam.

- Vanessa xo