BONNY SCOTLAND! W'ere here!!!

Here we are! In Scotland!!!! For a week (plus 3 days in the Highlands!)

Day 111 - 112

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROBBY!!!!
My Gorgeous friend and forever sisinlaw..
Hope you had a wonderful day.......
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The home of Robert Burns, the Highland Dance, The scottish Terrier, Shortbread, Scottish Whiskey...

And most importantly...my grandmother!!!

This is the place where Grandma C was born. And where she married Grandpop!

Oh, i have so much to say......

But will start at the very beginning....

After having another dream last night (about Rav, wanting to come home because he had a saw paw..awww) we woke up and had our last English breakfast of muslei, yoghurt and stewed fruit, plus a boiled egg (Greg had bacon & eggs) at our hotel in Windemere, the Oakthorpe Hotel we headed to the Windemere Train station to head off to Edinburgh...

We arrived....after looking out at the window on the way and wondering if the whole city would look like this. It was grey. Lots of buildings that were really dark and looked like large blocks of flats...a bit like an industrial town.

And it did. Dark grey. Like as if the buildings were really dirty and full of soot. There were towers and spiers as well. Castles as well. We'd arrived. Scotland!!!

We found accomodation at the tourist centre a the tourist centre at the train station. A hostel that was a converted universtiy. Suited us. Self catering apartments were just what we wanted.

Afterall, our greatest desire was to have a homecook meal. And for us, homecooked means..LOTS of vegetables!!!!! And you'll be pleased to know after booking in to our accomodation, we bought VEGES. Yay! Tonight we had broccoli, sweet potato, carrots and chicken (we bought it all at a supermarket and cooked it) Gosh! It was as tasty and i don't know what!!!!

We really miss our vegetables.....a LOT.

After my 'homesick' blog..i guess you're all wondering what happened..and whether i caught the first flight back or not?? Nah.....but i tell you, i've been having some pretty amazing dreams...i dreamt one night of my sister and her partner..another night about Sam and how he put sticky glue on my shorts that i couldn't get off..and now last night about Rav...i wonder what that's all about?

Maybe it's cos i haven't heard much from Sam....well, i guess that's not totally true because i talked to him at Elise's one night on a card we bought in London so we were able to have a really good converstation..but other than that it's been very limited because he's been at the Islands and contact has been difficult.

He is unable to receive email access over there..and mobile sometimes is difficult as well. And with Annette it could be because i've been wanting to have more time to respond to emails but haven't had as much time as i usually would, when i'm in Australia...so now i'm dreaming about her and Graeme!!!! Weird.

Zac, i loved your email, i will reply when i get back into email. Greg's doing email tonght and i'm blogging (it's so funny - i can see his head over the bank of computers....hahah) Thanks so much for your advice, it's true, we need time for ourselves and to reflect.

We will make time. Being in Edinburgh has made us realise we miss our kitchen and to just 'be' and to reflect and ponder. And yet, even knowing this, we both mutually decided to book a three day adventure to the Highlands, staying in dormitories...silly aren't we.

I guess we both know that even thought we'd love to have time to just stay in place for a week or two, we also know we want to make the most of this time we have away, and to see what we can, while we are here. And although we don't have a time limit, really, we sort of do because we are due back in London late Sept to fly out to America so we want to be able to see the UK and Northern Europe before we leave.

It's sort of like we can choose where we stay, and yet, we can't. In a perverse sort of way. We both, when we look into it, have the same ambition...to keep moving.

And yes, it's a challenge. A mighty challenge. To keep moving, every 3 days or so.

And yet, we can do it because we are very much in tune with each other, and can compromise and negotiate very well together....

So that's what we're doing. Perhaps...we will have that week in Ireland. We'll see how we go.

Thanks Caz for caring....gosh, the amount of times you have 'just been there' for me is just great. I think of all that time with my ankle..and now, when i feel homesick, you're there, with your positive words..i thank you for that my special friend.

And Helena...i love your encouragement and your love.

I'm so glad i have such wonderful friends!

Of course, need i mention my family..gosh, without my sms'ing with Elise and Mum...i'd be certainly stuck....and much more homesick, i'm sure!

Anyway...about Scotland..

I think i need a whole new blog just to describle Musselburgh.....