What an amazing four days I had, it could not have gone better!
I followed the Australian couple to Edinburgh from Manchester and as it turned out we were staying at the same hostel. We were at Caledonian Backpackers and this was the type hostel I should have been staying in Manchester, a backpacker hostel! Caledonian Backpackers was a four story building complete with dorms ranging from single person rooms to thirty person, a fully licensed bar and enormous kitchen.
The city of Edinburgh is absolutely beautiful, the first day had several cloud breaks allowing the sun to illuminate the amazing Victorian architecture, I went and got some delicious fish and chips for supper and went out on a photo walk to capture some brilliant photos.
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That evening I was sitting on my bed uploading photos and blogging and a scruffy looking, hipstereqsue gentleman entered the room, guitar in hand and enourmous smile on his face. Timon from Switzerland was living in London, now travelling the UK before moving back home to Basen to go to school. He invited me to play pool and quickly became my good friend.
The next day we planned to do the Sandeman free walking tour of Edinburgh. That is also where we met Yewande, from London just visiting Scotland for the weekend. Connecting with groups travelling or couples/pairs turned out to be a lot more difficult that I imagined. When you are with others that you know, you are a lot less likely to open up to a complete stranger. I hit it off with these solo travellers instantly.
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The walking tour was actually very good and informative. The tour guides are very enthusiastic and knowledgable. After the tour, we enjoyed some haggis and tatties as a group. Haggis has a very similar taste and texture to my moms meatloaf, it wasn’t exceptional but it was alright.
Timon, Yewande and I hiked Arthur’s Seat that afternoon. Arthur’s seat is a 830m extinct volcano that looks over Edinburgh. This was the only day on the trip that the weather wasn’t beautiful, but it also wasn’t that bad. It was quite windy and cold but Timon and I made it up. Yewande didn’t have proper shoes so she opted out of the rock sections.
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That evening I joined two students studying in Wales, from India and France, for dinner and we went to an evening horror tour. Kylie had recommended that I go to one, she said that one had scared her a bit and I wanted to be scared. The only problem was that she didn’t remember the name or the tour company. I was very disappointed with the one we went on, it was just a history lesson on weird mentally ill individuals that commit crimes or lived in Edinburgh.
Then next day we slept in because after the tour we met up with the rest of the group for drinks and were out late. Yewande and I decided to go to the magnificent Edinburgh Castle. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy the castle grounds. It is much smaller on the inside and is plagued with tourists and queues. However, it was nice to see the inside, the crown jewels and most importantly the stone of destiny. I probably would not go in again, but it was nice to see. In my opinion the castle is best appreciated looking at it from the gardens.
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The next stop was the Scotch Whisky tour. I originally was not going to go, but when I found out I could sample 5 whisky’s and get an education tour for 20 quid I changed my mind.
The tour itself was neat but not really memorable. What as memorable was entering the largest collection of Scotch in the world and learning about the five different types of Scotch, and what they were meant to taste like. If you ever go on this tour make sure you spend the extra money to sample 5 or more, the single you get on the basic tour is not enough.
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Timon, Yewande and I probably spent two hours sampling our Scotch Whisky and we had a blast talking extensively about how we thought the beverages tasted and the differences of things in our home countries. I was surprised to learn that Stella Artois, marketed in Canada has a premium belgian beer, is in fact a “wife-beater”-nothing cheaper than-piss drink, which blew my mind.
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That night we went on the Sandeman pub crawl. I had such a good time. We explored the majority of the best pubs and clubs in Edinburgh and I met many other young travellers from around the world. I was excited to meet two girls from Calgary, who happened to be on the same flight to Manchester and we almost have the exact same itineraries.
I met an Australian on the pub crawl named Jason, and we got into an in-depth conversation on our way to the next bar. The group was headed into the graveyard and I thought “COOL a pub in the graveyard” but before entering a voice shouted “You can’t join a ghost tour halfway through”. As it turns out, the group we were following was not our pub crawl, but a ghost tour. We ran back out of embarrassment and were able to find the rest of the group. From then on whenever Jason saw me he would say in his Australian accent “yah caaan’t join a ghaost tour haaalfwaaaay throuugh”, probably the highlight of my night.
Great things usually come to an end. That was my last night in Edinburgh, Timon was doing 5 days in the highlands and Yewande was going back home. Where hours before, having so much fun, I was thinking I could travel for the rest of my life and never go home. But then I was feeling a little like going home, back to regular life.
It was an emotional goodbye for me, not only saying goodbye to people I admired and could probably spend a lot of time around, but also the realization that I was back where I started… alone.
I’ll spend a night in Glasgow and will take an early morning bus to London where new friends await me.
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