Westminster Abbey, Big Ben and the Westminster Bridge.
Notting Hill Market on a rainy Saturday afternoon.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Skye Team hits Isle of Skye, Bath, & London!
Upon hearing first class passengers designated as "Sky Team" members in the airport, Ellie & I decided that it was an appropriate name for us, as we traveled to the beautiful Scottish Isle of Sky on the West Coast. In our hostel we met another traveller, Dino, a Korean university student, and enjoyed playing games, visiting "my" castle (Eilean Donan) and taking blitz bus tours around the island since it was raining torrents 46 of the 48 hours we were there. Skye is a mecca for hikers, so of course I'm already wanting to go back (with appropriate rain gear).
After Skye we headed out to Edinburgh by train (which is definitely my favoured type of transport!). Its hard to know what to write about we did so much there... it was lively, crowded festival time, so were ended up seeing a couple of shows, including the amazingly hilarious History of Scotland in 60 minutes, in which we learned how Spiderman relates to Scottish legends. Of course I got to run up my favourite Scottish park to the lookout at King Arthur's seat, that overlooks the entire region! We were sad to leave Edinburgh to go to Bath, but when we got there, it was a relief to take in the tranquility, restfulness and beauty of the ancient city for a few days. The best part of the stay was just walking through the outskirts of the city along the canal and taking in the green rolling landscape!
We're in London now, doing Londonesque travel things like seeing a show and the 'sites' like Westminster Abbey. Its still all quite surreal, like its not real because I've seen it all before in a movie!
For those of you wondering about couchsurfing, its been AMAZING. All the hosts we've met have far exceeded what we expected and have welcomed us with warmth and generosity.
One last random note is that after seeing a display here in London about a 33 year old Olympic marathon runner, I'm thinking of taking up training for a marathon (or at least a half!) while I'm travelling over here. . . we'll see about that in the next few weeks though!
Cheers!
After Skye we headed out to Edinburgh by train (which is definitely my favoured type of transport!). Its hard to know what to write about we did so much there... it was lively, crowded festival time, so were ended up seeing a couple of shows, including the amazingly hilarious History of Scotland in 60 minutes, in which we learned how Spiderman relates to Scottish legends. Of course I got to run up my favourite Scottish park to the lookout at King Arthur's seat, that overlooks the entire region! We were sad to leave Edinburgh to go to Bath, but when we got there, it was a relief to take in the tranquility, restfulness and beauty of the ancient city for a few days. The best part of the stay was just walking through the outskirts of the city along the canal and taking in the green rolling landscape!
We're in London now, doing Londonesque travel things like seeing a show and the 'sites' like Westminster Abbey. Its still all quite surreal, like its not real because I've seen it all before in a movie!
For those of you wondering about couchsurfing, its been AMAZING. All the hosts we've met have far exceeded what we expected and have welcomed us with warmth and generosity.
One last random note is that after seeing a display here in London about a 33 year old Olympic marathon runner, I'm thinking of taking up training for a marathon (or at least a half!) while I'm travelling over here. . . we'll see about that in the next few weeks though!
Cheers!
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