SCOTLAND edinburgh
we took the megabus to edinburgh for the weekend…which only cost us about 5 pounds each! magabus is a low cost busline that runs between cities, and is similar to easyjet/ryanair on ground…which means sometime the same route might only cost a pound!
there was so much to see, and although small, edinburgh definitely caters to tourists. we had good times on princes street and george street (the rat pack piano bar is a must!), and we even tried some haggis at a scottish place on the royal mile! liam had a whole meal of it and i had a bite..which was enough for me. thinking about eating a whole plate where the main ingredients are sheep heart, liver, and lungs boiled in it’s stomach makes me gag. so back to the sites…with my favorite was the view from “the mound,” where you can see the castle and scott monument. we didn’t go into the castle because it was 11 pounds to get in, but now i wish we had. sad. i should just sucked it up and paid.
we stayed at argyle backpackers, which is up the street from ”the meadows” (a big park in the middle of the city). i lied being a bit outside of everything, because it gave us a chance to walk through parts of the town we would have otherwise missed. make reservations at http://www.argyle-backpackers.co.uk/index.htm!
since it was the rugby world cup, we caught the argentina-south africa game…and i was sad to see argentina lose. i also learned that the last thing most irish and scottish want to see is england win at anything. so, it was better for south africa to win because they had a better chance of beating the english in the final. (which they did!) basically, the english and the americans are kinda in the same boat and have a bad rep around the globe.
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