day 2. arthur's seat. pub. old town.
day 3. visited stirling. stirling castle, wallace memorial. pub.
day 4. national gallery of scotland. pub.
took the tube to a train (i slept) to a plane (i slept) to edinburgh to a shuttle to our hostel, a 'funky church'. indeed, it was an old filthy church. it was drafty and smelled and was freezing cold and the water was cold but it was charming that way i guess, and i liked it. we drank lots of whiskey and beer (to keep warm) and watched rugby and football at lots of different pubs. walked a lot and i'm tired. overall, the trip was hilarious and a complete success. i took 169 pictures but, unfortunately, am happy with only a few of them.
edinburgh castle was amazing. so was stirling castle, but after visiting so many castles all that stuff has become a lil redundant. we climbed arthur's seat, which is basically a mountain/hill made of volcanic rock. deciding to be adventurous, we scaled it not by following the easy path, but by climbing it up the side. i fell a lot and now have rashes on my arms from brambles. the view was absolutely beautiful.
stirling is a nice little town. we saw the wallace memorial, which is enormous, and went in the castle, situated so that apparently at one point in history whoever held the castle at stirling 'held scotland'.
shortly before leaving for london we stopped at the national gallery. i loved it. they had a few degases and a couple of monets and an entire exhibit of just scottish art.
tomorrow i will do exactly nothing. but for the rest of the break, i don't know. i want to go, finally, to jane austen's house and maybe head to...someplace else.
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