Week 2!

I'm now on my second week here in the Scot-world!

I'm really enjoying myself and getting to see a lot. Adjusting was very easy, and now I can get around fairly easily.

On Monday we went off on a 4 hour train ride to experience Inverness, the metropolis of the Highlands...(if there is such a thing!) The train ride was very nice, getting to see large mountains covered in sheep and Highland Coos (Cow!). The mountains were in full bloom with heather which would have made for some excellent photographs...I'm definitly going back.

Now I am planning my long term documentary and just can't decide on what doing. It's going to take some time, but I should be okay. I want to incorporate traveling the country as part of it, which should be the easy part. There are just too many places to see and too little time. I do know that I want to make my way over the Isle of Skye so hopefully that will be do-able.

Tomorrow is Dunbar once again for an assigment. It's our first of this kind, so we are a little shaky....I do know that I will be able to go back to the bakery and tea shop!!! YAY!!!

Tomorrow night I should be in Aberdeen, if I get the trains sorted well enough. I will be there most of the weekend and hopefully to St. Andrews on Sunday. No golfing though on Sundays!

The pics are mainly from Edinburgh...check out Borat! That was a gentlemen who was part of a "Stag" party...which is the Scottish Bachelor party...That is tame compared to the "Hen" parties I've seen!

Becoming a Scot: Step 1 -Eating Haggis

OOOK....I did it. For the long months leading up to my trip almost everyone would ask me, in a poor scottish accent, "are yooo goin' to eat some haggis???"

Well....yes....and I did. Went to "The Last Drop" pub again where the service is good and they have a really nice student rate...and a great Latte. I went by myself the day prior but today I brough along the two Sams and Rachel. They all go a pasta dish and I had my eye set on the inevitable...HAGGIS....with tatties (mashed potatoes) and Neeps (mashed turnips). 

I'm still not all certain what was in it, but to much my surprise, it was REALLY good. I actually think you could market it in the US and just not call it Haggis...The looks are bad as well, but a fork full of the spicy stuff mixed with a little neeps...YUM!!!

We also started the day in Dunbar at the town's Harbor Festival. Like many Ohio festivals, there was an Elvis impersonator and the smell of fried everything. Unlike Ohio, however, the festival came with a nice view of the North Sea. 

On the way into Edinburgh, while we were running to catch the train...a Rainbow popped up, like they normally do here, and landed on my future country estate outside of Musselburgh....please feel free to donate to this charitable cause.