OUR THREE DAY TRIP FROM EDINBURGH
Day 1: Edinburgh - Loch Ness
We leave Scotland's capital and head to Stirling, home to legends such as William Wallace and Robert the Bruce and scene of many of Scotland’s most famous and bloody battles. Our route north takes us through the dramatic & inspiring Glencoe, and if weather permits we may well take one of our legendary ‘wee walks’, before heading for Fort William - in the shadow of mighty Ben Nevis (Britain’s highest mountain). Travelling through the Great Glen we head for Fort Augustus. Staying on the banks of Loch Ness, in Fort Augustus tonight we discover a bit more of highland history and culture, before trying to entice Nessie out for a wee dram!
Day 2: Loch Ness - Isle of Skye
Today we explore the magical Isle of Skye. Ruined castles, awesome scenery, Viking fortresses and home to the legendary MacLeod and MacDonald Clans. Immersed in Celtic myths and legends, hear all about the Faeries and the Selkies, and local characters who have contributed to the rich history of this magical island. Quite simply unmissable! Our overnight destination is either on the banks of Loch Ness or on Isle of Skye!
Day 3: Loch Ness - Edinburgh
Before heading south en route for Edinburgh, we follow the entire length of Loch Ness, searching for a priceless glimpse of the legendary beast. We visit Inverness, capital of the Highlands, and head for brooding Culloden Moor, sight of the defeat of Bonne Prince Charlie’s Jacobite uprising. After a bite to eat and perhaps another ‘wee walk’, we head south for Pitlochry, Dunkeld and Perth (amongst other things) before arriving back in Edinburgh at approximately 5.30pm. – An action packed, fun filled and unforgettable 3 days!
I am so excited about going to Scotland, I felt I needed to share!
Tuesday, February 28, 2006
I am applying for my job this week. I have been there as a temp since June last year, and I have to aply along with everyone else. I aked my boss if I Could just put "PICK ME!! PICK ME!!" on my application form, but he said no. Party pooper. :-)
Spent my day doing medical related stuff with Scott today. Not exactly what I had planned, but still. He went to the doctor, and they sent him off to the hospital to have a small procedure done. Nothing exciting, but still. I am home now, while he is at the hospital. There was no point in me hanging around, so I came home to work on my application and fetch him a change of clothes for when they kick him out tomorrow. I shall go back around 6 I think. But I shall phone first to see what the story is. :-)
Other than that, things with us are fine. I am working this weekend as I swapped with John again. We are going to Scotland in two weeks for my birthday. I am really looking forward to it. We are catching the sleeper train up on the Wednesday night. Thursday we will have a day in Edinburgh sightseeing. Friday, Saturday and Sunday we are doing a tour of the Isle of Skye and the Highlands. Sunday evening we are meeting a relative. Monday is sightseeing again. Tuesday we catch the day train back to London (we wanted to see the scenery on the way back).
Soon I shall be 26!! :-)
Spent my day doing medical related stuff with Scott today. Not exactly what I had planned, but still. He went to the doctor, and they sent him off to the hospital to have a small procedure done. Nothing exciting, but still. I am home now, while he is at the hospital. There was no point in me hanging around, so I came home to work on my application and fetch him a change of clothes for when they kick him out tomorrow. I shall go back around 6 I think. But I shall phone first to see what the story is. :-)
Other than that, things with us are fine. I am working this weekend as I swapped with John again. We are going to Scotland in two weeks for my birthday. I am really looking forward to it. We are catching the sleeper train up on the Wednesday night. Thursday we will have a day in Edinburgh sightseeing. Friday, Saturday and Sunday we are doing a tour of the Isle of Skye and the Highlands. Sunday evening we are meeting a relative. Monday is sightseeing again. Tuesday we catch the day train back to London (we wanted to see the scenery on the way back).
Soon I shall be 26!! :-)
Monday, February 27, 2006
Funny photo
This is my friend Giulia from work. This photo was taken when we went out for dinner for her (and three other's) birthday a couple of weeks ago. She makes me laugh. :-) Monday, February 20, 2006
Weekend
Hello! :-)
I worked on Saturday as I was covering for John who worked for me last weekend when I was in Leicester. I was on the ground floor, which was busy. I spent two and a bit hours straight in the children's gallery. It's tiring in there, but it's better now that the soft play area is closed off. We have a soft play area that a lot of mother's use as a creche. We visitor assistant object to this as they take up space in the gallery and ignore their children and do not use it like a museum! But now that the soft play area is closed, people have to interact with their children which makes it rather pleasant. :-)
Sunday was a trip to the Spitalfields Market. Scott and I met Isa from my museum at Canary Wharf tube station and we caught two tubes to get to Shoreditch at the end of the East London line. That station is right at the perfect place for Brick Lane, which I am sure I have mentioned beofre - the place with all the curry houses! From the station we went left up Brick Lane to see if we could find a bagel shop I had been told to find by Mum. Found it! There was a huge line so we figured it was good. :-) So we waited and I bought a salt beef bagel and 6 plain bagels to take home for lunches. Bargain at £3 for the lot.
From there we walked towards Spitalfields, stopping at various markets along the way. It was nice to just be wandering about looking at things. I didn't have much money to spend, but it was probably better that way. All in all I bought just the bagels, and a lovely string of beads for £1. The Spitalfields market is undercover but it was still quite cold in there. I am sure you could buy pretty much anything there - jewellery, rugs, clothing, food. You name it, I am sure it's there (within reason of course!!).
After the market we headed back towards home on the DLR and went to see Casanova. A good movie, if a bit cheesy. The cast looked a bit bored thoughout really! I like Heath Ledger, but the storyline was a little implausible in parts.
This week is has been work work work. And the joys of stomach bugs. I feel much better than I did yesterday though. I have the day off on Friday. Not sure what I will do yet. My friend Sarah may have had her baby by then so I can go play. But she hasn't popped yet!! That I know of anyway. :-) It's funny, I miss playing with babies/kids. My friend Maree has three kids (the third I haven't met yet!). I used to love "borrowing" Trinity and Bowen to entertain. There is something fun about kids, the things they find funny that I find really amusing. And babies are cute and squishy. But saying all this doesn't mean I want one just yet, don't get me wrong. I do want kids one day, but I am nearly 26, and at this point I think I am not ready. And too young! And besides, everyone else I know is having babies, so I can just "borrow" theirs!!
EDIT: This post was finished on the 22nd Feb, not at the date stated, which just shows you when I started it!!
:-)
I worked on Saturday as I was covering for John who worked for me last weekend when I was in Leicester. I was on the ground floor, which was busy. I spent two and a bit hours straight in the children's gallery. It's tiring in there, but it's better now that the soft play area is closed off. We have a soft play area that a lot of mother's use as a creche. We visitor assistant object to this as they take up space in the gallery and ignore their children and do not use it like a museum! But now that the soft play area is closed, people have to interact with their children which makes it rather pleasant. :-)
Sunday was a trip to the Spitalfields Market. Scott and I met Isa from my museum at Canary Wharf tube station and we caught two tubes to get to Shoreditch at the end of the East London line. That station is right at the perfect place for Brick Lane, which I am sure I have mentioned beofre - the place with all the curry houses! From the station we went left up Brick Lane to see if we could find a bagel shop I had been told to find by Mum. Found it! There was a huge line so we figured it was good. :-) So we waited and I bought a salt beef bagel and 6 plain bagels to take home for lunches. Bargain at £3 for the lot.
From there we walked towards Spitalfields, stopping at various markets along the way. It was nice to just be wandering about looking at things. I didn't have much money to spend, but it was probably better that way. All in all I bought just the bagels, and a lovely string of beads for £1. The Spitalfields market is undercover but it was still quite cold in there. I am sure you could buy pretty much anything there - jewellery, rugs, clothing, food. You name it, I am sure it's there (within reason of course!!).
After the market we headed back towards home on the DLR and went to see Casanova. A good movie, if a bit cheesy. The cast looked a bit bored thoughout really! I like Heath Ledger, but the storyline was a little implausible in parts.
This week is has been work work work. And the joys of stomach bugs. I feel much better than I did yesterday though. I have the day off on Friday. Not sure what I will do yet. My friend Sarah may have had her baby by then so I can go play. But she hasn't popped yet!! That I know of anyway. :-) It's funny, I miss playing with babies/kids. My friend Maree has three kids (the third I haven't met yet!). I used to love "borrowing" Trinity and Bowen to entertain. There is something fun about kids, the things they find funny that I find really amusing. And babies are cute and squishy. But saying all this doesn't mean I want one just yet, don't get me wrong. I do want kids one day, but I am nearly 26, and at this point I think I am not ready. And too young! And besides, everyone else I know is having babies, so I can just "borrow" theirs!!
EDIT: This post was finished on the 22nd Feb, not at the date stated, which just shows you when I started it!!
:-)
Thursday, February 16, 2006
Valentine's Day
I had a lovely Valentine's Day on Tuesday. It began with arriving at work to a lovely bunch of roses, with an unsigned card (I wonder who they were from!!). SO I was feeling chuffed and loved all day. I love receiving flowers. They are beautiful, and make me happy to look at them. I met Scott after work at Tower Gateway DLR station, which is close to the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London. We had a drink on the way there, as our "appointment" was at 7.30pm. At 7.30 we wandered over to the entrance to the Tower Bridge Exhibition. This is basically a museum of the history of the Tower Bridge in the walkways (see above photo that I stole from the web somewhere). There is an east walkway and a west walkway which gives you two different views up and down the river. The views from there were fantastic as it was a really clear night. There were lots of other couples there admiring the views (and each other I'm sure), but it was lovely. From there we wandered around a bit, as our dinner was booked for 9.30pm. I took some more photos of the bridge, and we went to have another drink at a different place. We then went to dinner at the Design Museum's restaurant. Very classy and with a great view of the Tower Bridge and the River Thames.The meal was lovely (I use that word a lot if you hadn't guessed). I had a really fantastic night and I was made to feel very special. I know a lot of people don't like Valentine's Day as it is commercial etc etc, but I think it is a good reason to treat your other half/girlfriend/boyfriend/whatever (!) to a special evening with lots of attention paid to them.I had to carry my lovely flowers around with me all night as I came straight to meet Scott from work. I was amazed at the number of smiles I got from people. People in London, for those of you who don't know, rarely look at anyone else on the street, let alone smile at them! I guess it took that bunch of flowers to make people realise that I was human! Sounds strange, but London is such a big place, it's my theory, or one that I pinched from somewhere, that by not looking or talking to anyone else on the street/tube, people create a space for themselves that they have control over. A space that is theirs alone in sucha busy, noisy city.
Just thought I would share this excellent photo with you. Knitted sushi!! Not quite up there with my knitting, but maybe one day...
Sunday, February 12, 2006
A weekend away
Hello all.
I spent Thursday and Friday at a conference in Leicester, which is north-ish of London. The conference was a museum one, and was mostly very interesting. I went with Alison from work. Her partner Phil also came up for the weekend, and drove us up on Wednesday evening.
The drive up took about 2 hours, and we arrived about well after 9pm. I felt bad about arriving so late, as the receptionist was due to go home and couldn't until we got there. We went to find some dinner after checking in. I felt very frustrated as I was tired and hungry, and Alison kept us wandering about the city looking for something suitable. At 10pm it's just food. I didn't really care what it was!! GRRRR!!!
Thursday was spent at the conference. All went very well, some interesting, and some boring papers. Lunch was included and was quite tasty. :-)
Thursday evening I caught up with Sanyu. She was another temp at the museum last summer, who goes to uni in Leicester. She found me in the city centre and we went to a shopping centre for a wander about. San introduced me to a mega cheap cosmetics store in which I bought some yummy shower gel and some gorgeous smelling spearmint soap. From there we wandered to a pub called the polar bear, a student hang out, famous for the huge meals they serve. And being a student pub, the prices were good too. We met her flatmate Natalie there. We each had a burger, which was too big to finish, but very yummy. From there we went back to San and Nat's student digs. It was better than I expected it to be really. Hung out there for a while looking at the internet and listening to music. Then we went out to another pub, this time a more yuppy one, but still good. I had a couple of drinks, did not pay for them, which is always good!! :-) At the pub there were four of us, as we gained an extra body by the name of Natasha, another friend of San's. I had a really fun night, they girls were all very amusing, and we got along very well. I was even in bed by 1am!!
Friday I got up early anough to get myself to the first session of the conference. There was only one paper I really wanted to hear. It ended up being a little boring, but one of the other ones I saw was very interesting and got me thinking. I was thinking about the exhibition I had proposed for my museum. And I was wondering how easy it would be to make it fully accessible to people with disabilities? The museum is fully physically accessible, and there are certain things we Visitor Assistants can use in touch tours, but there are always more things we could do really. Interesting idea, that I will investigate. It would probably be expensive, but an interesting exercise for the museum to undertake.
Friday afternoon I went shopping with Alison. I had found a great wool at a shop I visited on my last day off, but that shop did not have enough. I had previously rung a wool shop in Leicester to see if they had it and they put it aside for me. I am really getting into the knitting,and I am enjoying seeing things grow on my needles. I am currently making a giant cushion cover, with the wool I picked up. The wool is like a velour, and it is quite chunky. It is so far making a very soft cushion cover. :-)
Friday evening I veged out in front of the tv. We do not have a tv in the house we are living in at the moment, so having a tv is quite a strange thing. I miss not having a tv in the sense that I can't talk about what was on it when people ask me, but there is such crap on, it really made me realise why I am happy not to have one!! I met Scott at the train station very late, as he had been held up at work. We grabbed a snack as neither of us had eaten, then wandered back to the hotel.
Saturday morning was a sleep in, which was bliss. We wandered to a lovely tea house for a smashing breakfast of eggs florentine (for me) and copius amounts of tea. We wandered to the NewWalk Museum, which had an exhibition on board games from around the world. We spent a couple of hours there, playing games. I learnt a lot too, like Chess and Ludo were Indian games. Monopoly was invented by a Quaker woman to warn people of the dangers of landlords, and was copied and sold to Parker games by the guy who drew the board, so she got nothing for it. It was a very well done exhibition, with lots of interactives to play with, as well as historical museum objects to look at.
Saturday evening after a yummy dinner, we watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding on tv. Very good movie I thought. Sunday (today) we had breakfast in a cafe and caught the train home. We were going to be driven back with Alison and Phil but they were off seeing something else and we wanted to go back. We didn't really want to be at their mercy. The train ride was very pleasant. I did a lot of knitting.
I am coming to the conclusion that I do not like Phil - Alison's partner. Not only is he twice her age (which shouldn't make a difference) he seems to have quite an influence over her. He also has a tendency to interupt me (and I am sure others as well) when I am talking and just butt in with something really trivial. That really annoys me. And not just once either. It's damn rude really.
And that's all I have to say about that!
I spent Thursday and Friday at a conference in Leicester, which is north-ish of London. The conference was a museum one, and was mostly very interesting. I went with Alison from work. Her partner Phil also came up for the weekend, and drove us up on Wednesday evening.
The drive up took about 2 hours, and we arrived about well after 9pm. I felt bad about arriving so late, as the receptionist was due to go home and couldn't until we got there. We went to find some dinner after checking in. I felt very frustrated as I was tired and hungry, and Alison kept us wandering about the city looking for something suitable. At 10pm it's just food. I didn't really care what it was!! GRRRR!!!
Thursday was spent at the conference. All went very well, some interesting, and some boring papers. Lunch was included and was quite tasty. :-)
Thursday evening I caught up with Sanyu. She was another temp at the museum last summer, who goes to uni in Leicester. She found me in the city centre and we went to a shopping centre for a wander about. San introduced me to a mega cheap cosmetics store in which I bought some yummy shower gel and some gorgeous smelling spearmint soap. From there we wandered to a pub called the polar bear, a student hang out, famous for the huge meals they serve. And being a student pub, the prices were good too. We met her flatmate Natalie there. We each had a burger, which was too big to finish, but very yummy. From there we went back to San and Nat's student digs. It was better than I expected it to be really. Hung out there for a while looking at the internet and listening to music. Then we went out to another pub, this time a more yuppy one, but still good. I had a couple of drinks, did not pay for them, which is always good!! :-) At the pub there were four of us, as we gained an extra body by the name of Natasha, another friend of San's. I had a really fun night, they girls were all very amusing, and we got along very well. I was even in bed by 1am!!
Friday I got up early anough to get myself to the first session of the conference. There was only one paper I really wanted to hear. It ended up being a little boring, but one of the other ones I saw was very interesting and got me thinking. I was thinking about the exhibition I had proposed for my museum. And I was wondering how easy it would be to make it fully accessible to people with disabilities? The museum is fully physically accessible, and there are certain things we Visitor Assistants can use in touch tours, but there are always more things we could do really. Interesting idea, that I will investigate. It would probably be expensive, but an interesting exercise for the museum to undertake.
Friday afternoon I went shopping with Alison. I had found a great wool at a shop I visited on my last day off, but that shop did not have enough. I had previously rung a wool shop in Leicester to see if they had it and they put it aside for me. I am really getting into the knitting,and I am enjoying seeing things grow on my needles. I am currently making a giant cushion cover, with the wool I picked up. The wool is like a velour, and it is quite chunky. It is so far making a very soft cushion cover. :-)
Friday evening I veged out in front of the tv. We do not have a tv in the house we are living in at the moment, so having a tv is quite a strange thing. I miss not having a tv in the sense that I can't talk about what was on it when people ask me, but there is such crap on, it really made me realise why I am happy not to have one!! I met Scott at the train station very late, as he had been held up at work. We grabbed a snack as neither of us had eaten, then wandered back to the hotel.
Saturday morning was a sleep in, which was bliss. We wandered to a lovely tea house for a smashing breakfast of eggs florentine (for me) and copius amounts of tea. We wandered to the NewWalk Museum, which had an exhibition on board games from around the world. We spent a couple of hours there, playing games. I learnt a lot too, like Chess and Ludo were Indian games. Monopoly was invented by a Quaker woman to warn people of the dangers of landlords, and was copied and sold to Parker games by the guy who drew the board, so she got nothing for it. It was a very well done exhibition, with lots of interactives to play with, as well as historical museum objects to look at.
Saturday evening after a yummy dinner, we watched My Big Fat Greek Wedding on tv. Very good movie I thought. Sunday (today) we had breakfast in a cafe and caught the train home. We were going to be driven back with Alison and Phil but they were off seeing something else and we wanted to go back. We didn't really want to be at their mercy. The train ride was very pleasant. I did a lot of knitting.
I am coming to the conclusion that I do not like Phil - Alison's partner. Not only is he twice her age (which shouldn't make a difference) he seems to have quite an influence over her. He also has a tendency to interupt me (and I am sure others as well) when I am talking and just butt in with something really trivial. That really annoys me. And not just once either. It's damn rude really.
And that's all I have to say about that!
I love this picture - it is now my desktop picture at work. It was taken in Malmo from underneath some trees.
Scott throwing a chunk of ice into the frozen stream/river infront of him. We spent quite a bit of time throwing blocks of ice to see what damage we could do!!
An ice skating duck. Made me laugh.
Snow plough on the job in Malmo.
Me in a giant tea cup.
Up close and personal with a plastic croc.
Piranhas!! Chomp chomp....Sweden photos
This is a picture of the serviette at the restaurant where we ate our moose burgers.
The moose burger!!
Statue of a man on a horse in the main square of Malmo.
A park bench in Malmo. I loved the way the snow stayed on the slats.
Sideways, sorry. This is a thermometer near the town hall in Copenhagen. Shows y'all how chilly it really was!!
Square and fountain in Copenhagen, nearby to the castle where the baby was christened.
Scott holding an icicle broken off a shop awning.
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