UK Road trip Part 2

hey again, sorry I've been a bit slack blogging. This one is going to take us all the way up to now, and I'll try and stay on top after that :-)

So. When the story left off, we were 2 frustrated, tired young adults, hitting the sack for what felt like the first time in a long time. Well we awoke pretty early ( I think...) and we were on the road. On to Scotland!

The drive up was amazing, we drove along a highway that offered us coastline glimpses most of the way and hen we stopped for a break at Berwick-Upon-Tweed. Its a small town on the border of Scotland & England, and is walled from conflict between England & Scotland. I was very happy to stop here as my craving to check this sort of town out was still strong from missing York the previous day. It was very different, and the walls were primarily made as big drop/cliff type things. Its real weird because you can walk along the top and there's still no fence or anything silly like that, and you could do some serious damage from the fall. In the walls around the corners and so forth are the shooting points. Anyway it had nothing on York, but was really enchanting in its own.

From there we drove to Edinburgh. I'm really not too sure what to say here...the City was beautiful. We walked alot through Edinburgh as we were there a few days The Castles architecture let us down a bit from the back view, but the cliff it is on is rather impressive. Once we got to the front though it redeemed itself as castle-lke enough for us ( yes I really am writing this arrogantly) and we enjoyed the climb up the side on the hill.

We spent the afternoon of the second day climbling up Arthurs Seat Apparently the one in Victoria is names after this one, so no, i have not gotten lost & wandered back home. It was a fairly easy hike in terms of hikes, but it was still sweaty & hard work, and the cun was out & I thought we were going to get burnt. Shock! Getting to the top was amazing as we had full 360 degree views of Edinburgh, out to the bay and it dwarfed the massive hill the Castle was on. It was stunning & a great end to our time there.

Next stop was Glasgow, and to be honest, we didnt really do much there, we stayed on a nice brunswick-ish street and strolled down that a bit, but we had an early night and didnt see much else. Cooked a mean Haddock with Mushy Peas for dinner though. Yum!

the next mprning we headed to Paisley where Bens family hail from back in the day. The first thing we saw was a van with "cameron...something or other" a nice stroll around there and a look at the most bizare church. At first we thought it was falling left, then right, then kinda skewed in the middle. I'm feeling almost certain it was perfecty straight and all an optical illusion the more I think about it... Anyhow, we decided to try Haggis whilst here too and must sa, it wasnt That bad. We had it from a Fish and Chip shop and was fried kinda like a dim sim with the same sort of texture. Bang a bit of Dead Horse on it & she was great! ( well alright as long as you dont think too much)

We spent the afternoon driving out of Scotland & headed towards Wales. The plan was to sleep in the car on one of the motorway services, which are usually 24hour & monitored, so safe. But as it was quite a bit of a drive, we decided to keep going get as close to Cardiff as we could, and then only have to drive 30min or so in the morning. The problem was, we had to change otorways. This was fine until we turned down the second one and it was pitch black. No street lights, 1 lane. Motorway my *insert explict here* so we drove for a little while, nearlly ran out of petrol, came acoss a gas station, but no services/safe places to sleep... It ended with me spending some of my own cash on a room for the night, as I was not feeling all that safe ( thanks dad! not that he understands the internet! - someone tell him please).

So we slept, awoke nice & comfortable and continued onto Wales in the morning...

I'm going to have a rest now. It shall continue once again...shortly
*closes intermission curtains*