5:00 AM- Arrive at Dublin Airport and are able to get all the way to our plane with not a single person to check our passport.
7:00 AM- Arrive in Edinburgh Airport!
8:00 AM- IN EDINBURGH. The moment I stepped off the bus from the airport I was able to feel the magic held within this city. The castle was perched up on a high cliff, watching over every part of the city. Everything I saw was incredible and I could not tell if that was because of the deliriousness from late night travels or just the true beauty of the city. Maybe a little bit of both.
8:30 AM- Check into Castle Rock Hostel. When you step out of the hostel you get the best view of the castle in the whole city. The hostel was run by young people in their 20's, people who wanted to do something different so they came to this city and live and work in this hostel for months. They were from all over the world: Australia, Canada, France, Spain. They really were able to make the hostel an amazing experience for us, even if we had to share a bathroom with the opposite sex.
10:00 AM- Drinking coffee at the Elephant Cafe where JK Rowling wrote Harry Potter! This was a really cool coffee shop that we went back to about three or four times throughout the weekend. After Coffee we explored Edinburgh, walked the Royal Mile which was packed with ancient buildings and cathedrals and bars and restaurants. By the time we were done exploring and went back to the hostel we crashed hard from our non stop adventure and did not wake up until dinner which consisted of Mexican food.... in Scotland.
NEXT DAY
10:30 AM- We decided to check out Arthurs Seat, which is the top of this volcano located in the city. Everyone told us it was just a few steps and then you were at the top, it wasn't difficult and it was really beautiful. Well these people have a strange sense of humor. We walked up those steps, that were made about 300 years ago and consisted of rocks shooting out of the side of the mountain, not to mention that this mountain was very steep. We get to the top and collapse on the cool grass and then look left.... on our left was the actually Arthurs Seat. We walked over to the bottom of it, looking for a trail but the only thing we could find were rocks, so of course we climbed up them. The views at the top were beautiful, again my eyes got huge and I thought this must be the most beautiful thing I have ever seen. And then it started raining, making the rocks and pathways down slippery. The walk down was terrifying. We were falling left and right, stopping right before a cliff edge or a thorn bush. When we got down I almost cried tears of joy. The next morning I woke up sore from having to catch myself so many times on a steep mountain. It was an experience that I will certainly never forget.
2:00 PM- Go back to the hostel and collapse for hours.
7:00 PM- Eat the best Italian food of my life.
NEXT DAY:
10:00 AM- Go to the Elephant House for coffee.
12:00 PM- Find the Edinburgh Saturday Market and eat a scottish pork sandwich with something else that I am not really sure I want to know what it was. We explored New Town. This is one of the coolest parts of Edinburgh, they have an ancient city on the left and a urban european city on your right. The rest of the day was filled with exploring. We went on a Whiskey Tour and the Scottish Museum
6:00 PM- Got to a pub that claimed to be the oldest pub in Edinburgh where I had an amazing salmon dinner and saw the loch ness monster.
9:00 PM- Say our goodbyes to Edinburgh in an awesome pub where they played Johnny Cash.
NEXT DAY:
To my regret we had to leave. I am not exaggerating when I saw that this was one of the most amazing cities I have ever been to. It was beautiful and exciting and I have already bought a ticket back.
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