England - Scotland Trip (Day 5)

This is my second time to Edinburgh. The first visit was quite brief.

Jo and I allowed ourselves some rest today as we would be staying at Edinburgh until evening.

Based on my limited knowledge of Edinburgh, I decided to bring everyone to Princes Street, where Scott Monument is. We were greeted by a kilt-wearing man blowing the bagpipe.

My parents were impressed with this city. It probably explained the huge number of pensioners in this town.

We went to the famous Edinburgh Castle after walking through a few streets in the town. Other than the castle, the High Street which leads to the castle was also quite interesting, with many shops and café around.



After few hours of sightseeing, we helped ourselves with a buffet lunch at Jimmy Chung's. My dad was extremely delighted to be able to eat Chinese food again.



After the late lunch I drove around the city before driving down to York.



By the time we reached there, it was already past 10pm.

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England - Scotland Trip (Day 4)

We woke up to very lovely weather in Broadford.

Isle of Skye is the most important destination for me in this whole trip, and how great it was to finally enjoy a cloudless and sunny day.

The only unfortunate part is Johanna and me found out that we had quite a lot of itchy bite marks left by the notorious Scottish midges, which entered our room through the open window.

View outside our hostel

We set of to the biggest town on the island - Portree, immediately after lunch. On the way, we stopped at a few spots to enjoy the great sceneries.


Yet another pose by Jih Xian

We arrived at Portree around an hour later. After parking the Previa, we went to the port for some photos of the sea and the buildings along the coast.


By the port of Portree

We set off towards the Nothern part of the island after that. All the way we could see the breathtaking sceneries of the sea. It was my first time seeing the Atlantic Ocean. We stopped by at a small museum to take some photos before driving back to Portree again for lunch. We had decided to try out some Scottish seafood at a local fish and chip restaurant. However, most of us didn't quite like the food.


A very small museum

We left Isle of Skye after lunch to set off for Edinburgh. It was a long drive. We had to cancel our trip to Inverness due to time constraint.





On the way we went past Loch Ness and drove along it for quite some time. No sign of Nessie. Loch Ness is huge but we didn't come across any nice scenery all the way, quite a let down judging from the popularity of this huge lake.

By the time we reached our youth hostel accomodation it was already past 10pm.

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