About My Days

Edinburgh to Glasgow

Journey to Glasgow

After our third night and a full breakfast in Cherry Tree Villa, we left the B&B. We had planned to go to Glasgow by train. We walked our way to the train station consequently. There is a tourist information at the train station where we had a second thought about our decision for the train. It turned out that busses are have as expensive as the train. Consequently we continued our way to the bus station. We just managed to buy two open return tickets, before the bus departed.
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Edinburgh – Day 2

National Museum of Scotland

Our second Day in Edinburgh started with a breakfast that did not give any opportunity to train English. Nearly all of the guest were from Germany.

As a contrast we took part in a guided tour in the National Museum of Scotland. Our guide was Lydia, an elderly woman. She began by telling us that we had the honor to be guests on the last tour she would give in the museum before her retirement. She had some difficulties walking, so the tour was restricted to the ground floor of the museum. That was no blemish. It was our chance to get an insight to Lydia’s excellent knowledge of Scottish history. The tour was brilliant.
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Edinburgh – Day 1

Arthur’s Seat

The second day started with a look out of the window at Cherry Tree Villa. The picture to the left shows just that view. After our first full Scottish breakfast we began our first day of sightseeing in Edinburgh.

To get an impression of the hiking days to come, we went to Arthurs Seat. That is a summit, just over 210 m high, in Holyrood Park. When we arrived at its base, we found the answer to a question, that we got in the airplane on approach to Edinburgh: What are all these yellow patches on the ground? The answer: Gorse.

The next question was: Where is the way up to the summit? Answer: Take a walk half way round the hill. The quite easy climb was rewarded by the splendid view on Edinburgh with its castle and harbor.
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Hamburg – Edinburgh

On May 23, 2009 we started our first holiday for this year. The plane was scheduled to take off around 11 o’clock. So, we had to get up just like on any weekday to make it. The plan was to take the S-Bahn route S1 which leads directly to the airport from our nearest S-Bahn station. But, just on this day there were construction works in progress and the S-Bahn service was substituted by busses starting from Barmbek. We had plenty of buffer time and thus no need to panic.

The weather started out sunny and continued that way throughout our way to Heathrow. After a 3 hour stay we boarded the connection flight to Edinburgh. On arrival in Edinburgh or luck had left us weather-wise. It started to rain. “Scottish weather” – we thought. To our surprise it cleared up again when we left the airport building.

We took the Airlink to the city center, where we took the bus to our B&B.