Business As Usual???

Gearing up for Croatia and Bosnia! Head out on 8 October. My initial excitment was briefly replaced by nervousness, but now it's back to excitement again! I've lined up some great folks to stay with, and I'm really excited to learn about the culture and land. Good times ahead!

Last Saturday was friend Edel's birthday, good craic indeed. Poor Edel sliced her finger whilst getting ready, and was decked out in her finest birthday blood-stained bathrobe when we arrived, but she was all smiles and silliness and I love her for it! Some pictures are picture below.

Other than that it's business as usual, however usual one considers this business of mostly play, when trying not to eat too many scones is the hardest thing you do in a day. Mmmm, scones......

yep.

A plethora

Pics Galore!

In Edinburgh

Scotland Pictures

These are all from the walk up Ben Nevis...

Pure Dead Brilliant

Back again in Carn!

When last we met I was in Edinburgh, having an okay time. Well, eventually Edinburgh sank in under my skin, and I really began to vibe with it, so that when I left I was genuinely heartbroken to have to leave. It's a charming little city. The last day I was there I just wandered around for hours. Met up with a couchsurfing host named Alistair McLeod, how much more Scottish can you get?

Then it was on to the Isle of Skye. This is what life is all about. My first csing host in Edingburgh invted me to go with him and his former roommate to visit his sister in the Isle of Skye. How could I say no? Sure yeah maybe there was a little voice in the back of my head yelping "be wary be wary!" but I squished it with a q-tip and then it was silent.

The words that belong with the I of S cannot be uttered by a human tongue. It is too overwhelmingly beautiful, if you attempted to put it into words, you would be swallowed up by them. It was breathtahking to be sure. We stayed in a faboo little cottage that I expected would smell like mildew and old fabric, but was dead dreamy and one helluva cozy place. Good times.

Then spent one night in Glasgow with one of my new favorite people in the world, the csing host's ex-roommate. Cut from the same cloth, we are.

And at long last to Glasgow Prestwick airport. The slogan for this airport is Pure Dead Brilliant. I love Scotland.

Here are some photos... they are from the summitt of Ben Nevis...

Edinburgh

Hi. I'm in Edinburgh. Ummmm, golly, not much going on with me in Edinburgh. Walked around the city a bit. It's not like what I expected. There is some amazing gothic architechture, but on the whole most of the buildings all look very similar to one another. It's alright but nothing's really blown me away.

The gentleman I was couchsurfing with has a flatmate who works in a whiskey shop, so I spent a good portion of yesterday "learning" about whiskey. The professor was a glass and the lessons became more and more fun as the day progressed. And I did, in fact, learn, well, a little about whiskey! I think my brother would be dead jealous, as this was a pretty swanky store and there were some seriously posh whiskeys I was kicking back. Couchsurfing rules!

Tonight is a quiet night. I'm with new hosts and they'd made dinner plans before I contacted them, so they were brave enough to let me stay here whilst they're out. It's really nice and honestly just what I needed. I've been schmoozing and mingling and chatting for over a week now, and even though I love it, it's nice to have a night all to myself. Plus it's a beautiful airy house! Once more, couchsurfing rules!