Edinburgh, Scotland

The most beautiful city. Edinburgh, Scotland. Like every other blog, I wish I could talk about it more. But do to other circumstances- like my charger just blew out on me (ah), my theater paper is due in like 2 days and I have yet to start, and I am cooking dinner for 2 before our show tonight (The Tempest, back at the Old Vic, directed by the great Sam Mendes)... I again have lack of time. Check out my facebook pictures if you care.

Edinburgh was perfect. Minus the coldness, which I wasn't prepared for!!

Where to begin? How did we choose Scotland in the first place? Funny, I was actually persuaded into it. I didn't think I wanted to go. But Matt insisted. He had to see the Open, this world renown golf course and tournament. I really couldn't turn him down and I guess I was curious about Scotland and all I've heard about it. So I agreed, but told Matt the planning was up to him... So here goes- The hotel was sketchy, but cheap. I'm glad I had Matt to at least make me feel safe. We were on an off-streets and we got in late at night, so it was a bit scary finding our way to our little hole in the wall room. We didn't even know which room was ours (the room was about 3 miles away from where we picked up the key) so we had to guess, trying to open up different doors! We eventually found our room, and for the price, only 65 pounds per night, it was pretty sweeeet. A bit of a walk into the city though.

The next morning we woke up at 7:30, off to find our ways to St. Andrews. We found the train out of Edinburgh that directly took us to the course (they had a Golflink bus set up for us), so it was very convenient. We got there around 11 am and It was actually fun going to The Open Championship. We saw Tiger haha. And it's a fun event. The course is amazing, massive, and beautiful. They made us check our phones and cameras before going in!! So we only have memories. I would of even stayed there longer, it was fun!

Than around 5, we got back and went over to the Royal Mile. A veryyy fun street- street performers, shops, restaurants. We then walked over to Grassmarket- the hostel/club streeet and had dinner in a pub there. We were so tired and far from our room that we didn't stay out. But we tried getting back, and ended up walking about an hour and right when we got in a cab we realized we were finally only 5 minutes away!

On Sunday, we got on a hop-on hop-off bus which was interesting to hear about the history of Edinburgh and be driven around for once! We hopped off at the castle and explored for about 3 hours. We saw the prisoners of war room, about 3 Scotland history/battle museums, some royal rooms, the oldest church in Scotland, the memorial, etc. It's very cool up there. I love how it's a castle on top of rocks. It's amazing.

We than went to the Whiskey Factory and instead of spending more money on a tour- it was getting to be a very expensive weekend- we ATE! We ate at the restaurant there and I got the traditional Scottish dish Haggis! But vegetarian. It was amazing. I can't believe what's in the real haggis dish. GROSSSSS! We also tried a glass of whiskey= and it was so strong, it was also gross haha. Check out the menu here- http://www.amber-restaurant.co.uk/pdfs/amberbyday05_2010.pdf

Back to London. Wish I could go back to Scotland, it was great. A very tiring weekend. No time to rest though, off to AMSTERDAM friday. I've always wanted to go the Netherlands since I was a little girl. I can't wait. Till then.

xoxo