Back from Edinburgh
One day has passed since returning to Portslade from Edinburgh. And what a journey, we have seen a lot of castles. The best one was Tantallon Castle, mostly because of the stunning location I think. You find the castle on a high cliff edge overlooking the sea. Amazing, almost want to return there when I'm writing about it :P
I'm not gonna bore you stiff so here's a short summary of Stina and mine Castle Quest around the Edinburgh area
- Castle, castles, castles (of course, otherwise it wouldn't have been a castle trip would it)
- Haggis (tastes actually ~ like pölsa)
- Deep-fried Mars bar (they are crazy in Scotland, they deep fry everything!)
- Free guided tour around Edinburgh (stingy I know ;))
- JK Rowlings café where she wrote Harry Potter
- "The real Hogwarts"
- Almost no rain, I know it's amazing. Who would have guessed that we would be that lucky. It only started raining the day before we were going home.
- Ale almost every night. We were lucky here as well and found I really cozy pub the first night
- Forced a German lad to drive us from Craigmillar castle, he was gonna drive to the city anyway so why not give us a ride?
I didn't though found out what actully can be find under a kilt, fuck ;P
And here some photos from the trip!
I'm not gonna bore you stiff so here's a short summary of Stina and mine Castle Quest around the Edinburgh area
- Castle, castles, castles (of course, otherwise it wouldn't have been a castle trip would it)
- Haggis (tastes actually ~ like pölsa)
- Deep-fried Mars bar (they are crazy in Scotland, they deep fry everything!)
- Free guided tour around Edinburgh (stingy I know ;))
- JK Rowlings café where she wrote Harry Potter
- "The real Hogwarts"
- Almost no rain, I know it's amazing. Who would have guessed that we would be that lucky. It only started raining the day before we were going home.
- Ale almost every night. We were lucky here as well and found I really cozy pub the first night
- Forced a German lad to drive us from Craigmillar castle, he was gonna drive to the city anyway so why not give us a ride?
I didn't though found out what actully can be find under a kilt, fuck ;P
And here some photos from the trip!
The Castle Quest
Tomorrow are Stina and I leaving for Edinburgh, Scotland on a Castle Quest :) We are going to visit several castles around the Edinburgh area including the two big ones, Edinburgh Castle and Stirling Castle.
The trip is part of the Activity Week at school which basically means that every student at school have one week where they can do a project concerning something in the British Isles and hence my journey to Scotland. Since Stina and I are among the older students at Loxdale we have decided to take the flight to Edinburgh rather than going by the awful long but cheaper coach. So mature of us *lol*
Have a great week everyone!
Love, Petra
The trip is part of the Activity Week at school which basically means that every student at school have one week where they can do a project concerning something in the British Isles and hence my journey to Scotland. Since Stina and I are among the older students at Loxdale we have decided to take the flight to Edinburgh rather than going by the awful long but cheaper coach. So mature of us *lol*
Have a great week everyone!
Love, Petra
The two tap syndrome
The two tap syndrome is an expression that symbolizes the English way of thinking (at least according to my teacher Sue :P).
"Sure, we have a mixertap in the kitchen, but why bother with having one in the bathroom? It's so nice having two taps with hot and cold written in a nice font" The two tap syndrome can also be applied for the traditional way of voting in the House of Parliament. The ones who vote no go through the left door and the ones voting yes go though the right door (or vice versa, can't remember precisely) and then you actually have a lad who stands counting the people on a piece of paper. Why bother with installing a "press button"-vote? The traditional way has always worked with us *lol* I must say it gives the brit some character :)
Obviously, this is not the only thing that has happened since I last wrote here. I have among other things been to a quiz at a local pub in Hove with our teacher Mo. Fanny at school had her birthday this Thursday so we celebrated her at an amazing buffe restaturant called Day's. So suited for Crohn, or not... ;)
"Sure, we have a mixertap in the kitchen, but why bother with having one in the bathroom? It's so nice having two taps with hot and cold written in a nice font" The two tap syndrome can also be applied for the traditional way of voting in the House of Parliament. The ones who vote no go through the left door and the ones voting yes go though the right door (or vice versa, can't remember precisely) and then you actually have a lad who stands counting the people on a piece of paper. Why bother with installing a "press button"-vote? The traditional way has always worked with us *lol* I must say it gives the brit some character :)
Obviously, this is not the only thing that has happened since I last wrote here. I have among other things been to a quiz at a local pub in Hove with our teacher Mo. Fanny at school had her birthday this Thursday so we celebrated her at an amazing buffe restaturant called Day's. So suited for Crohn, or not... ;)
Murder Mystery evening & Battle of Hastings
Thursday
Finally Murder Mystery evening and a great opportunity appeared. I entered the school this evening dressed in a gigantic mustasch. Why shouldn't I seize the opportunity to take part in the male half of the world? ;) The name? "Mr agent Avery".
Gambling, bribing, eating and finally a murder to solve. Although I convicted the wrong person (I believed the murderer shouldn't be the one most obvious) the evening was lovely.
Friday, Saturday
Night out with Josefine (former colleague to my dad) and her friends on Friday. We went to a Balkan club called Komedia. At a pit stop at Mash Tun I found myself all of a sudden armwrestling *lol*
Saturday was spent at Shoreham's market and Steyning. Absolutely knackered in the evening, the walk to Anna for Xfactor was more than enough for me :P
Josefine mfl
Sunday
Reinactment of Battle of Hastings at the village Battle (not Hastings :P). People dressed in proper clothings for that time period, horses, swords, crossbows and spears. It would have been my dream come true when I was younger. Although now much older it was quite impressive still :) The rain started pouring down just in time for the reinactment but it didn't dampen our mood too much.
Have a lovely night *lol*
Finally Murder Mystery evening and a great opportunity appeared. I entered the school this evening dressed in a gigantic mustasch. Why shouldn't I seize the opportunity to take part in the male half of the world? ;) The name? "Mr agent Avery".
Gambling, bribing, eating and finally a murder to solve. Although I convicted the wrong person (I believed the murderer shouldn't be the one most obvious) the evening was lovely.
Friday, Saturday
Night out with Josefine (former colleague to my dad) and her friends on Friday. We went to a Balkan club called Komedia. At a pit stop at Mash Tun I found myself all of a sudden armwrestling *lol*
Saturday was spent at Shoreham's market and Steyning. Absolutely knackered in the evening, the walk to Anna for Xfactor was more than enough for me :P
Josefine mfl
Sunday
Reinactment of Battle of Hastings at the village Battle (not Hastings :P). People dressed in proper clothings for that time period, horses, swords, crossbows and spears. It would have been my dream come true when I was younger. Although now much older it was quite impressive still :) The rain started pouring down just in time for the reinactment but it didn't dampen our mood too much.
Have a lovely night *lol*
Tacos
I tagged along Sara to look for clothes to wear on our Murder and Mystery evening. What did I bring with me home then? Well, everything apart from things to wear on Thursday evening *lol* Among all things I bought this pretty teapot.
Knockered after all shopping I had to force myself to shower (everyone who knows me, know that I hate to shower when I haven't been exercisning) and then I was off to Helena. We made tacos in her host familys lovely kitchen. It was so good :)
Oh, btw Kent is gonna release their new album in November. What do you think about the first singel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdesx6nGYwY&feature=player_embedded
Knockered after all shopping I had to force myself to shower (everyone who knows me, know that I hate to shower when I haven't been exercisning) and then I was off to Helena. We made tacos in her host familys lovely kitchen. It was so good :)
Oh, btw Kent is gonna release their new album in November. What do you think about the first singel?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdesx6nGYwY&feature=player_embedded
Stonehenge and Salisbury
Hey ya,
I will just dive in and start writing from this day.
Today the school had arranged a trip for us to Stonehenge and Salisbury. When I woked up this morning it was grey, grey and grey. But since this was pretty much the first day with bad weather it didn't feel all to bad.
I really loved Stonehenge. It was pretty much as I had expected (everyone else seemed to have thought that the stone was supposed to be really, really huge) apart from all the tourist but when thinking about it. How could I have thought that it wouldn't have been busy with tourists? I only wish that I could have had more time there but since everyone one else wanted to go it was just for me to obey :P
The trip continued to Salisbury and a nice guided tour by Anna, our principal at school. The day ended with a pot of tea and some browsing in the town.
I'm starting to feel a bit under the weather so I stayed home tonight whilst some from the class went to the lagoon for karaoke.
My goal for this blog is to write it in English. I think it would be a good exercise for me since I don't have improved in English as much as I would have liked to. It's bond to be some grammary and spelling to mark her but I feel if I gonna continue writing here it can't take up too much time and therefore you will just have to ignore my misses.
Cheers!
I will just dive in and start writing from this day.
Today the school had arranged a trip for us to Stonehenge and Salisbury. When I woked up this morning it was grey, grey and grey. But since this was pretty much the first day with bad weather it didn't feel all to bad.
I really loved Stonehenge. It was pretty much as I had expected (everyone else seemed to have thought that the stone was supposed to be really, really huge) apart from all the tourist but when thinking about it. How could I have thought that it wouldn't have been busy with tourists? I only wish that I could have had more time there but since everyone one else wanted to go it was just for me to obey :P
The trip continued to Salisbury and a nice guided tour by Anna, our principal at school. The day ended with a pot of tea and some browsing in the town.
I'm starting to feel a bit under the weather so I stayed home tonight whilst some from the class went to the lagoon for karaoke.
My goal for this blog is to write it in English. I think it would be a good exercise for me since I don't have improved in English as much as I would have liked to. It's bond to be some grammary and spelling to mark her but I feel if I gonna continue writing here it can't take up too much time and therefore you will just have to ignore my misses.
Cheers!
