Back in November from the 18-21st (again a very late post) I went to Edinburgh, Scotland with Abby for the weekend. We left on the fabulous RyanAir on Thursday evening and arrived late in the night at Craig's best friend Emma's apartment. After all of our traveling, Abby and I wanted a beer so we went to the nearest pub before it closed to have a fabulous cold, flavorful beer. It was so wonderful to be able to not only have choices of the type of beer, but to order from people with wonderfully Scottish accents! After guzzling the magnificent beer in the last 15 minutes before the pub closed, we headed back to Emma's to sleep. The next day we headed out in to the cold to a restaurant called "Monster Mash" for brunch. This restaurant had all kinds of mashed potatoes, which the Scottish love. Abby ordered the veggie haggis (although we had no idea what actual haggis was - sheep's heart, liver, and lungs mixed with onions and spices, etc), and I ordered a fish mashed potatoes. Oh it was so yummy! And of course, we topped off the meal with some beer… I mean, when in Scotland right!? We went to the Museum of Scotland which was very interesting. My favorite part was seeing the beheading machine… which now after writing that that sounds very crude, but a man that worked there was talking about how they loaned out the machine to neighboring cities back in the day when there were the Salem Witch Trials and all that madness. I just found it interesting. We headed on to the Edinburgh Castle before it closed. There we had a tour guide all dolled up in his kilt and again, the Scottish accent. The view from the castle was breathtaking! I had no idea how amazing Edinburgh was. However, what was not so amazing was that it got dark outside by about 4/4:30. So early! We went and saw the Elephant Café where all of the Harry Potter books were written, but didn't stay there… we wanted more pints! We found a pub called Greyfrier's Bobby, which was named after a dog, and had more awesome beer. Emma and some of her friends met us there and we went to the campus bar (yes, a CAMPUS bar!), where the beer was cheaper and we could see where the local students hung out. My friend Luke from the coop met us there. We went back to Emma's house for some more drinks before going out to this university party. It wasn't really our style, but it was still interesting. The apartment's bathroom was bigger than 4 of my rooms put together! We stayed that night at Luke's. The next day we had planned to go hiking, but unfortunately, true to Scottish weather, it was rainy. We went to the Holyrood Palace which was beautiful. We went to another Museum of Edinburgh, which was in a little house kind of that was also interesting. Usually I am not a museum person, but the Scottish museums were actually quite worth it. We stopped for tea at a little tea shop before heading to the National Galleries of Scotland, which was free, and very beautiful. It was so rainy outside and we stopped somewhere to have some fish and chips and beer to get out of the rain and cold. We went back to Luke's and after brunch the next day we headed to the airport. I think Edinburgh is one of the most beautiful, cultured, and fun places I have ever been and I really hope to go back one day!
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