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Sunny Scotland

                  Making my way back home after three great days in Scotland. On Thursday, David and I did a tour of Edinburgh which was really nice. We met up with two of his friends for lunch there, and I had cullen skink, a traditional Scotish dish... a potato soup with fish basically. Was really good. This was our super touristy day, doing a bus tour where we learned about the "horrible histories" of Edinburgh which mostly consisted of executions, then we toured The Real Mary King's Close . This is an underground street that resulted from the building of the "new town." When they built the new town, they just built it right on top of the old one. They often kept plague victims down there. Edinburgh was a really unique city, with the castle right in the middle of the city.                    That night, we headed back to Glasgow to meet a lot of his friends out for a couple dri...

Stonehenge to Glasgow

 I'm out of London!  My opinion of this city didn't end great.  To get the negatives over with...  It was rainy  I was lonely  My leg was killing me (likely cause for a lot of my sour view of London)  Lines were long People weren't that friendly  My phone was STOLEN. Right after my visit to Stonehenge so all those pictures were lost.  The bus ride from London to Glasgow sucked . Not only did I have to wait like 7 hours to leave when I was really ready to leave by like 4, but the strangers in front of me felt the need to share their entire life stories at 12am on a 9 hour bus ride, the guy next to me blasted his "Call Me Maybe" and futuristic style music on his earphones, and it was soo uncomfortable with me leg.  One bad thing about traveling alone is it can be difficult to wander a city from 8am-10pm. Sometimes I just want a nap. There's only so much cafe and restaurant sitting, church exploring, museum seeing, a...