So we arrived in Liverpool at around 3. For some reason driving 2 hours seems to take all day over here. The hotel in Liverpool was really nice and overlooked the port which was a beautiful view. Once I got settled in I went straight out to walk down the waterfront. It starts to get dark at about 4pm so daylight was slowly disappearing. I walked down the waterfront and got some really nice photos
Liverpool was a lot prettier than I expected. A walk down the waterfront led me to Albert Dock. This is where the Beatles Museum is. I'm not a huge fan or anything but I know the music and I do like John Lennon. There was loads of info and real and replica items to looks at. It was interesting to see how adored they were by the fans.
The above picture of the Ferris wheel was taken at about 5pm. So yes very dark very early! After the museum I decided to head back to the hotel. I was still pretty exhausted from the Amsterdam trip! We were having a traditional Sunday roast for dinner which was at about 7pm. I made the wonderful choice of roast beef because I knew it would come with a Yorkshire pudding! Yum! After dinner some people were planning on heading to the famous 'Cavern' but ended up just going back to the bar at the hotel. I stayed there for a bit and then headed up to get some much needed beauty sleep.
4/1/16 - Liverpool to York
We had another driving day today, again only around 2 hours but managed to take the whole day. We left Liverpool at 11am and arrived in York at about 2pm. It's crazy how many stops we take! York was very pretty and flooded. Driving in there were whole fields under water and you had to ask if that water was supposed to be there - 99% of the time it wasn't. The city wasn't too bad but the river was still very high with lots of places still closed.
Driving in - a field that wasn't meant to be a lake
The Kings Arms is the most flooded pub in York - it is currently flooded!
Diagon Alley - Harry Potter
York Minster.
We had a nice dinner in York which was followed by a ghost hunt. The ghost hunt was absolutely hilarious. The old man who ran it was so funny and it really wasn't scary or believable at all! After the ghost hunt we headed back to the hotel because the next day was quite a long drive.
5/1/16 York to Edinburgh, Scotland
The drive to Edinburgh was a long one, about 3.5 hours... This meant even more stops! We left York at 8am and with a few stops arrived in Edinburgh at 3pm.
Crossing the England, Scotland border.
As I said, we arrived in Edinburgh at 3pm. Which meant it was already quite dark. After a muddle up with our room - the door wouldn't open. We went in a walking tour with our topdeck guide, Rogan. It was freezing cold, dark and raining quite heavily so I wasn't impressed that we were doing the tour especially because I didn't have an umbrella and my coat isn't waterproof. Our walking tour went for longer than an hour so by the time we got back I was saturated. We got back to our room and walked into basically the penthouse. It's got 3 Bunks, with each bottom in being a double bed, 2 showers, 2 toilets and ping pong table, TVs at the end of our bunks, a fridge and an abundance of games. It is very cool!
So we arrived back at our room at about 5pm and that night we were scheduled to do a pub crawl. I was pretty annoyed because I didn't have time to have a rest - typical Em... But anyway jumped in the shower and got ready. We had dinner first and it consisted of haggis. Basically haggis is all the innards and leftover pieces of meat. Which sounds disgusting but in reality it tastes like the inside of a meat pie. It was okay, I've tried it but I wouldn't go out of my way to order it again! After dinner we had the pub crawl. We started at one pub and all up there were about 6 pubs. I was hanging out with some friends I'd met from Tasmania and Auckland. We just found a nice corner to sit at and talked until we had to move in. At about the 5th pub I think it was close to midnight and we had decided that we were hungry and ready to go home. We were just around the corner from the hotel so we grabbed some pizza and shivered our way back.
6/1/16 Edinburgh
As you can imagine, it was a late start today. Luckily breakfast is served until 12 so we got ready and headed down to breakfast at about 11. My goal today was to get my washing done. I had a lot to do and really needed it done. I found a laundromat that was. 5 minute drive so me and a few others hopped in a cab and drove there. It did take about 2hrs all up to wash and dry everything but we managed to get it done which was good. We came back to the hotel and dumped our washing then headed back into town. We had a look at some of the shops before heading back to the hotel at about 4:30. We had a little rest and then met people down at the hotel restaurant. Everyone was pretty exhausted because of the pub crawl so it was an early night for all.
7/1/16 (today) - Edinburgh
Today was the day to see the sights. I started by re-packing my bag and then heading down to breakfast at about 9. We decided to head to Holyrood Palace first. This is Queen Lizzie's offical residence in Scotland. I wasn't too fussed about going inside but everyone else want to so in we went. Like all castles/palaces it just had a whole lot of old stuff, which if you're into that is probably cool but I couldn't really care less.. I did see a photo of John Howard though which was cool. Anyway after the palace I decided that I wanted to head off on my own. There was a few things I wanted to do and it's nice to just pop into a shop if you want to and not have to worry about anyone else. I was talking to mum last night and saying that I wanted to get a tartan scarf, she told me that I should look for her dads clan scarf and showed me which one is was. I found a scarf for her - which is very nice... Cashmere and cost a lot so you better like it!! 😉 and a nice one for me too. Got some more magnets of course and made my way to the castle. Before I got there I got some lunch. There is a place called Oink and it serves pork rolls basically they get a pig in each day and pull the pork to make the rolls. I got cracking as well which was delicious! I then walked up to Edinburgh castle. I wasn't too interested into going inside because once you've seen one castle you've seen them all really. But I wandered around and took some photos. After the castle it was raining pretty heavily and I didn't really have anywhere else I wanted to go so I headed back to the hotel which is where I am now. Tonight we will go somewhere for dinner and then it's off to Glasgow tomorrow for the night!
Holyrood Palace
Edinburgh Castle
Til next time
- E
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