At last, I am in the mood updating my blog again:> Has been busy..
Scotland is actually a last minutes plan, we were thinking wheater going to ireland or wales or scotland, well, we decided scotland atlast, bought the bus tickets and booked a apartment, off we went, on the night itself:> 8 hours on the couch, no joke pal, i will never take such a long journey bus ride in here anymore ( if i can help it) hell man..Malaysia coaches are so much much better than here, we got all the VIP and Super VIP buses, recline seat with foot rest, i miss that really.. Coaches here are like our long distance buses about ten years ago or maybe even more, I dont know how some of the Ang Moh can complain about our seat back home are too tiny for them, seriously..
Anyway, we survived that, left London at 2300 ours and reached Edinburgh around 0730 hours..First thing we do, looked for our apartmment, found it without much difficulty, Edinburgh has very good tourist information system, maps and guides are easily found in the main bus station, streets are nicely planned and built..
Scotland is actually a last minutes plan, we were thinking wheater going to ireland or wales or scotland, well, we decided scotland atlast, bought the bus tickets and booked a apartment, off we went, on the night itself:> 8 hours on the couch, no joke pal, i will never take such a long journey bus ride in here anymore ( if i can help it) hell man..Malaysia coaches are so much much better than here, we got all the VIP and Super VIP buses, recline seat with foot rest, i miss that really.. Coaches here are like our long distance buses about ten years ago or maybe even more, I dont know how some of the Ang Moh can complain about our seat back home are too tiny for them, seriously..
Anyway, we survived that, left London at 2300 ours and reached Edinburgh around 0730 hours..First thing we do, looked for our apartmment, found it without much difficulty, Edinburgh has very good tourist information system, maps and guides are easily found in the main bus station, streets are nicely planned and built..
so, this was the apartment that we rented, landlord lady came and meet us, gave us the key, and told us will come and meet us to get the key and return our deposits at 0830 hours the day we gonna leave..nice tidy two bed rooms apartment, central location, cost us 80 pounds per nite, quite cheap actually, plus you can cook and stuff...got a Tesco express just across the street somemore..
Our first meal, noodle soup, yum yum..
after the meal, we venture out to the town, first thing we looked for, the famous Edinburg Castle, looks stunning ..can see it clearly from the town, up on the hill, lots of castle in scotland, his is one of the best one and is still in use.
After that, we join the hop on and off bus tour, looked around the area, we we decided to end our day with hill climbing..there are two mountain/ hill in the city, one is calton hill, the other higher one is holyrood park, is amazing, is a councilpark but is atleast 600 feets high( if i am not wrong:>but is quite high..anyway we choose to spend our evening on the Calton hill, took us about 15 minutes to get up the hill, steep hill, but once you reached the top, stunning view, can see the whole city and seaside, love it!!
we walked around the hill and have some family kodak time:>
We stayed till the sunset time, the sun set is beautiful..we litrally stand ther eand watch till the sun is conmpletely gone..wonderful, i never seen such a nice sunset before:>
There ends of our first day in scotland:>i Love the place, will definately go back again with wati:>
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Lovely pictures :)
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