This will be brief because I'm on Elises itouch. Anyway, were in Scotland! We arrived in Edinburgh yesterday by plane because we waited a wee bit too long to book train tickets. And those things get very expensive if you procrastinate. (I'm going to try and use my new Scottish vocabulary. It consists of "wee" "Bonnie" and "sexy"). So we walked around Edinburgh and then decided to go to bed really early because we were exhausted and figured we'd be going out every night this week.
Monday morning we left on our Five day tour of the highlands. Were traveling with two PhD candidates from Germany. Legit. So we stopped at the hermitage of Ossian, Pitlochry, two battle sites, Loch ness, and were staying the night in Inverness. The weather has been cold and rainy, but what else could you expect from scotland. I'm also disappointed that Nessie didn't make a grand appearance. Elise won a cool Nessie figurine fr the resident nutcase who gave up his job to spend his life searching for the loch ness monster. I wonder if I should tell him that it's not real-- but it might break his heart.
So we get to the hostel in Inverness and make dinner. We went to a pub with a couple of Canadian boys who have been here for a few months. They were playing live Scottish music that didn't involve bagpipes. It was kind of trippy. Anyway, we met a couple of locals including a precious 19 year old bartender who was explaining to me that every one in scotland is a functioning alcoholic. He was appalled when Elise and I didn't want to drink more than a pint. He didn't understand the concept of a lightweight. Anyway, Scottish people are a riot! Were heading to the isle of Skye for two nights.
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