Greetings Frae Bonnie Scotland !
Welcome to my blog. I have always thoughts blogs were kinda a douche trend but I realized it's far easier than sending a million emails.
So I've been in Scotland for just three weeks now. I decided to come visit my family before leaving on a year trek to south east Asia. It's been great to be back in Scotland. If you know me well enough, you know how much I love coming back and consider it home. It's been a fantastic three weeks minus a sinus infection and hardcore jet lag.
Got to spend time with my cousin and go to Dundee for a night out with the boys. When we go to the University bar in Dundee they almost weren't going to let me in until Colin told the bouncer some joke about Canadians from How I Met Your Mother.
"How many Canadians does it take to change a light bulb?"
"Oh nooo! Who turned oot the lights?!"
Apparently everyone else finds that hilarious, I just straight up don't get it! My friend Laura from Toronto was in Glasgow and met me in Edinburgh last Wednesday. We went to St. Andrews and along the coast the one day and then went to Edinburgh for a long weekend. Stayed at a quirky bohemian hostel in the downtown core. It was so cool meeting people from all over the place. Started the weekend at a 1950's style speak easy called the Voodoo Rooms for cocktails before dinner with my aunt and uncle. The night only got better with with a pub crawl that finished at 5am! We went to so many bars and met so many awesome people - met a couple from Newcastle England that looked like they were from Geordie Shore. For those of you who don't know, Geordie Shore is the British version of Jersey Shore but only more orange and hilarious.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETd-yBZxoME
This pretty much sums up the show. Mint! After the pub crawl and a rather hungover Saturday we went on a ghost tour of the underground tunnels of Edinburgh. It was the most eerie and haunted feeling. There was no one there to scare you, just absolute darkness and a weird smell.
We went to a dance cave that night, Club Voltaire, which was so much fun! There were two different rooms spinning different tracks and it was packed in there! Cheap drinks, good tunes and lots & lots of dancing all night! Some drunk bitty stepped on my foot with her high heels and bruised my foot up. Eugh!
Spent all day Sunday wandering about the city and the Grassmarket. If you haven't been here, you gotta come to Scotland. Words don't do this country justice. We had the sun shining and lots of hills and stairs to climb all over the city. Finished the night off with some dinner and pints with our fav Aussie, Alex. All in all, great weekend in the city with great dancing, strong drinks and even better people.
Off to Thailand on Thursday. Fly to Dubai and then to Bangkok - +32 and 76% humidity, yeah I'll be alright.
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