Schedule A

Our plane may have landed in Glasgow but we immediately took the train to Edinburgh, with a plan to return to Glasgow before we made our final trips home.

Edinburgh is an amazing city. It’s summer also features non-stop festivals much like Glasgow, except there is an enormous castle on top of an enormous hill in the middle of the city. When visiting Edinburgh as a backpacker, try and get into the Castle Rock hostel. It is in an old manor right across from the castle. The rooms are spacious and beautiful even when there is 8 people to a room. The staff is really nice and very accommodating. Our original booking only had us there one day, but we were more than willing to pay a cancellation fee to stay there another night. The castle was just outside our window.

Edinburgh is the other city we took advantage of the for-tips tours that we started in Amsterdam. The guide had really interesting things to say such as the crag that the castle was built on was really hard stone which created a weathering shadow when the ice age glaciers last came to shape the land. The whole core of the city was build on this huge rock and the gentle ramp in the glacier shadow of it.

Beyond enjoying the general ambiance of the living city of Edinburgh we made our way to the Scotland Museum of Science and Technology where Dolly’s stuffed body is on display. There was even an exhibit on Canada. Well Northern Canada at least.

With our trip winding to the inevitable end, we took the train to Glasgow, which is far more practical and less dramatic city. We stayed in a University Residence together which was actually a lot of fun. We did some shopping and saw Angus, Thongs, and Perfect Snogging, which seemed like a good thing to do because I don’t think the move has been release in North America at all. It is from the same director as Bend it Like Beckham.

Check out all the Scottish pictures including my shoes after traveling the world and what might be one of the finest shots from the trip in the last album:

Edinburgh and Glasgow