Few days before i am flying to Scotland i had a visitor whom i was realli looking forward to meeting!!!! CHRIS - my best buddy in Sheares Hall~ He had already finished his exchange and was travelling with another girl from NUS - Eunice. We took most of the time catching up and telling each other on our exchange experience and i took him to Fruhlingsfest!!!! I bet he enjoyed himself..... chris you realli came at the right time!!! Hahaha~ Go tell kenneth about your experience here hehe.....
After Chris dumped his luggage at my place, he continued his travelling plans again. Few days later i too flew to Glascow, Scotland!!!! I was travelling with another 8 pple : Daniel, Thomas, Javier, Joaquin, Emma, Marcela, Alycia and Qiling. The bad thing was that we are not flying from Stuttgart but Frankfurt(Hahn), which is quite an ulu place a long long distance away. We had to wake up earli at 5plus am, meet at 6am and drive 4 freaking hours to the airport. I am glad i am not the one driving, hahaha anyway its left hand drive so i am not used to it. lolx!! Finally we reached the airport!!!! TOTAL DISAPPOINTMENT hahaha..... maybe becos i come from SINGAPORE!!!! We have the BEST airport in the world!! haha~ Look at Frankfurt(Hahn) airport....
Nice~~ lolx.... and OFF WE GO~~
Arrival in Scotland!!! Looking forward to everything!!! At least the girls are hehex~ We got to take a train to the main city~ Its usual as the airports are far from the city area.... they can afford to~ ha~ not like Singapore so small.
We didnt buy tickets for the train ticket as we cant find any ticketing station at the platform.... then we asked around and realised that we buy the tickets on the train from the conductor.... During the ride, the conductor was checking everybody's ticket.... but my train reached my station jus before he was going to check me so i went scotfree!! hehe!!
We went to our hostels first before getting our meal..... we came to Scotland and did not try scottish food but CURRY!!!! hahaha..... food damn expensive here la.....but i jus spent... only felt heartpain when i return to Stuttgart again realising i spent 1k SGD..... TMD.... another 1 month of spaghetti.....
After the meal, we went to their main city street!!!
Glascow Royal Music theatre
Some kind of paint museum.... sorry not museum person so i nv go remember the name =P
More 'some other museum'
Street performers~ Scottish pipes!!!!!! I think its a rather noisy instrument though =( sorry~
Before we return to hostel, we registered for a one day tour to LOCHNESS LAKE in the quest of searching for the legendary monster NESSIE!!!! The next day we depart from the bus station. The journey towards Lochness is about 4 hours cos we have alot of stopovers.... The bus has audio devices which explains the history of some historical places and events... there wasnt any tour guides.... the audio devices make use of statellite gates which will activate when it is near the historical places or architectures.... so cool.....
First stop : Some countryside farm~ with sheeps!!! but its barricaded =( cannot go ride the sheeps hehe
There we bought the ticket to enter one of the oldest castle here in Scotland... and also to take the cruise in the lake!!!
The HIGHLANDS!!!! I feel that its a MUST-GO thingy if you ever to come to Scotland.... i love the nature, the scenery etc etc....
We spend only like awhile here.... dun even have time to take more pictures... damn man....
Next stop : Urquhart Castle!!! [Really windy here]
Qiling with her FOOD even when taking photos with me....
More pictures :
Time for the CRUISE!!!
The cruise lasted for half an hour.... we were taking alot of photos and also enjoying food and scenery... Before we reached the dock, we were all disappointed that we didnt get a chance to capture a magnificient sight of Nessie.... When the dock was nearer in sight.... we ALL caught sight of the long awaited great monster in history!!! NESSIE THE GREAT and its children!!!
Tried to take a candid shot of Qiling with the beautiful scenery behind her.... the sky, the land, and the sea....but the caramel food wrapper in her hand destroyed the elegance of this picture haha~
Next we went to the nearby village of Inverness and free for all mode for awhile....
After Inverness we return to Glascow to rest ourselves for the next day~ The next morning we woke up early to eat breakfast and went out to this botanic garden near the University of Glascow.
Next we moved on to a Museum (again) hahaha~
My attempt at taking an artistic photo~ maybe can make into a postcard hahaha
The rest went on into the Museum but we were more interested with the exhibition outside the museum.... The pple are going to act out how life during the Viking era was like~ They were very friendly and approached us and talk ahaha.... must be the attractiveness of the 2 other Singaporean girls with me..... definitely not becos of me.....
Freaking heavy helmet..... haha i was trying to pose like a honourable warrior hahah but fail haha..... they should kick me out of army....
Male soldier..... RRRAWWRRR!!!!!
Female soldier.... meows~~
Alycia with her harmless attack
Finally we enter the musuem....but instead of looking around the 3 singaporean Musketeers sat down at the cafe area and drink kopi and eat tuna sandwich..... hahahaha.... singaporeans realli no culture appreciation sia..... onli the French and the Chileans could appreciate....
I did go to a wing of the museum..... the part of the museum where history comes alive at night!!! hahaha~ Looks cool!!!
Then time was running out.....
We had to leave for London, England...........
We realli had a great time in Glascow..... and i only have 3 words to say about this trip here...
"I LOVE SCOTLAND!!!!!"
