HAGGIS 3 day tour, Skye High

We arrived  in Edinburgh thursday evening, it was pitch black and freezing cold but we didn't mind coz this place has an amazing vibe to it. We went for a walk around the streets and found the christmas markets and another ice skating rink. We had a crack on the ferris wheel and had a good view of what was around. We had an early night in preparation for the Haggis tour that begun early friday morning...

I reckon it woulda been close to 2 or 3 degrees when we walked to the Haggis office, not far from our hostel, man it was cold. Our driver rocked up in a kilt and a hoodies and the thickest scottish accent we'd ever heard. He was a top bloke too, about Clints age and talked a lot of bollocks.

We got matching MacPherson Clan Scarves!! Nice :)

Off we went, through the fog and out of edinburgh into the country side. We couldnt see a thing for a few hours until the sun came up and the heavy fog dissapeared but hey who cares?? We're in Scotland!!

So Scotland is famous for a few different things, the Loch Ness Monster, the Highlands (The Isle of Skye) it's History and amazing Scenery, Haggis, Men who wear skirts *cough* I mean kilts.. castles, brutal to the death battles between neighbouring clans, or even the english, and of course who could forget, kaliedoscopes!

We saw lots of hills, trees, bushes and grass, but here they were all covered in ice and it was great! We found our first frozen lake (at our hostel) so while we were waiting for people to board the bus we threw rocks at it for a laugh!! Clint also skated on frozen ice down the hostel driveway.

Our highlight of the three days was the Isle of Skye. Where the scenery is unbelievable! We got to sit ontop of a mountain and watch the sun set.

We headed back to Edinburgh, via Glencoe which is a valley made by glaciers during the ice age. We found some frozen rivers and broke the top of it off with a rock or our feet. We could pick up the pieces of ice which looked like glass and then smashed it on the ground!! Sounds like we were breaking a plate or a window!! Fun times!!

There's SO much history in Scotland, and we discovered the Scots are very proud of who they are and where they come from! On our travels we picked up some new slang words which we can't wait to bring home and use! We also learned the stories behind "being beaten by the ugly stick", "getting pummelled" and everyones favourite (excuse the language) "They got Sh*t faced". Nice.

After many wee walks, wee stories and wee jokes we've decided we really like Scotland. It is a magical place! Full of amusing myths, ledgends, historical characters and natural beauty. One of Kylies highlights was meeting and feeding Hamish the Highland cow, he was sloberring-ly adorable!!

Nice hair dudes!!!

We've decided we'd like to live in the Highlands in Scotland.. we've already picked out the house!!

We have the next few days free in Edinburgh to do what we want, and then we fly to Dublin on wed arvo to do a tour of the south of Ireland.

Ice Skating at the Tower of London

Just for the record.. stacks Kylie 1, Clint 0.

....umm just for the record.. gracefullness on the ice, Kylie 10, Clint 0 ;)

Sea Life Aquarium

We went above, below and through the aquariums, we got some photos taken riding a shark, a ray and underwater. Fun times!!

hehee..

London Eye

When we first spotted the London Eye!!

We saw a fun 4D movie introduction to the London Eye, water, smoke machines, bubbles and everything!

Check out the awesome view!

Maddam Tussauds Wax Museum

Just a few of the many famous 'people' we met :)

Look who I met Jessie ;)

Clint loves Kylie ;)

aww clint even looks sweet next to audrey!!

we weren't quite sure what this guy was still doing there!!

Overall.. the wax models were cool as, so life like... but the crowds sucked. Some people were so rude, getting in the way, pushing, taking 20 different poses coz they didn't know how to pose and move on. But a great experience none-the-less!!

Blues Jazz in London

We tubed our way to meet Lora at Leicester Sq, she showed us around the west end a bit and we headed to "the spice of life" a funky little pub that has professional and amateur musicians jamming blues jazz together on a tuesday night. It was great!! One guy even played guitar with his teeth!!

Back in the UK

We are now in London! We finished our top deck tour on the saturday just gone and after abit of a rush to find some last minute accomodation (we had nowhere to stay!!) we now have a little apartment just outside central London in a borough called Barking.

It was a great experience not knowing where we were going to sleep that night & we did very well as a team to sort it out. In the process Kylie helped 3 other people find somewhere to stay which was very inspiring!

To get from A to B we are using the tube (subway or metro) alot and sometimes we are catching up to 4 trains! Its very easy to use tho and we have become pros, i mean if we can use the metro in Hungary and the Czech Republic where nothing is in english, we can do anything!!

Its very cold here and we had our first crappy London weather day...no snow yet. Altho it could be worse, it could be 40 degrees :P

We had our first free sunday so we went to a Pentecostal church in Barking. It was so refreshing being in a community of people worshiping God. The people were very welcoming, lots of children and families and the music was very upbeat.

Bright and early monday morning we made the journey from one side of London to the other to visit the Lords Cricket Ground. I was very excited and i got goosebumps when i saw the gates. (cricket doesnt excite kylie one bit and clearly she did this for me...what a champ!)

We did a tour of the members area, the pavilion, the new media centre and we got to sit in the players changerooms which is nothing like a footy locker room! Altho the grandstands etc are quite modern, the ground and the history dates back to the very early 1800's. It was very interesting to see the 2.5m slope across the ground!!

I was spewing that the aussies lost the ashes in june this year but if they had won, i wouldnt have been able to see the ashes themselves so that was lucky! We did see the original ashes urn on display.

Around the corner from Lords is the famous pedestrian crossing used for the Beatles album cover, Abbey Road. We had lots of fun trying to get photos of us at the crossing except we didnt realise this was a very busy road!! We got a photo of both of us on it and we had to be quick about it as we angered some motorists...hehe. Nearby is the beatles cafe which sells lots of memorabilia which we couldnt help buy a few things from.

Today we are having a quiet day to catch up on washing and sleeping and tonight we are going to a jazz club to catch up with Lora and her friends. Tomorrow we are gonna have a go on the London eye and then take some more corny photos at the wax museum!!

Thursday we are off to edinburgh, Scotland.