sticky toffee pudding #02

1st day - trooped down to Edinburgh Castle... and passed by a farmers market (strawberry ice-cream... yum.) first stop of the day: The Scotch Whisky Experience. got a tour of the place, taught how to appreciate a scotch (one free drink! lol. and got to keep the shot glass they served it in.), taught how whisky was distilled... pretty fun. only i kept falling asleep cos the distillation thing was the same as what we studied in biology =P plus the lack of sleep on the coach ride.

then took a very very very very slow walk down the touristy road... the royal mile. much picture taking (with random statues no less.) and browsing souvenir shops. we only got about halfway down the road by lunchtime. popped into a Scottish pub for lunch. shared haddock and chips and beef stew with xinyi and meifang *yum* the haddock was the best fish and chips i've ever eaten! the beef stew came with haggis stuffing gravy... and the haggis that other people ordered was super yummy too. [tummy happy = happy!] we wanted dessert to share so i ordered the 3 more interesting things on the menu (a traditional Scottish thing... berries cream and whiskey, sticky toffee pudding!! and apple crumble) everything was good... but we all fell in love with the sticky toffee pudding *mmmm. heavenly*

next stop was Mary King's Close trying to get tickets to the night tour but they were sold out =S so we settled for a different ghost tour. the sky was getting dark by then and the Edinburgh Castle closed at 5pm (only about 3pm then) so we walked back to the castle and toured it till about 530pm. twas... really pretty... and the historical significance of the castle and battles fought over it was really cool. bought fascinating souvenirs from there: a catapult pencil sharpener that can actually catapult, a Scottish bagpipe guy bookmark (diy) and a bagpipe charm. - my wallet really felt the pinch man.

dinner! =P we walked all the way back down the road to the halfway point again to 'wannaburger' cos ds said 'iwannaburger!' but were put off by the price. so we went to a fish and chips shop... but it only had outdoor dining (brrr. cold.) so me, ds, weichao, meif went to get subway instead (cos we could stand inside XD) and pangsei-ed the rest =P. bought hot chocolate/ coffee from starbucks *yum* then walked back to the hostel [gosh we walked up and down the same street 3 times already] to check in. 8 bunks in a room, rather cramped, the bed and duvet were gross (my duvet had grass and mud on it =S they gave us a clean sheet to spread so we wouldn't touch the dirty bits... but still. eew.) the toilets were nice at least.

hung around in the room for a while... got to see something i didn't want to see. omg. wenyuan in his long john bottoms. eeew. it was like ballet tights... only his legs were simply chunky and gross... not to mention he took off his jeans in front of everyone (hilarious. we couldn't stop laughing at him for the rest of the night) then we (everyone but yenn weii and weichao who didn't want to be scared) were off for the ghost tour 'City of the Dead'. took a bus back to the same road, hung around for the tour where the guide was a really really fantastic storyteller. it was a 'scare yourself silly' kind of tour... she told stories of the feelings and stuff... and we all filed into a mausoleum where it was nearly pitch black and she told stories... feeling changes in temperature, women feeling horny etc. there wasn't any real presence though... but 2 people fainted (a man and a girl wow.) and someone hyperventilated 0_o but it was kinda fun hehe. poking around a cemetery at night with only moonlight.

took a very uneventful cab back and went to sleep... after sharing the events of the tour and laughing at random things heehee. wenyuan. (unintentionally eavesdropped on ds emoing to the bao-bao brothers... got woken up by his voice lol.) woke up at 7am to shower... -end of first day-


spent about 65 quid. gosh (don't convert don't convert!!)