Honeymoon Time: Killarney, Ireland!

We went back to the Dublin Airport via bus in the morning of September 10th. Our rent-a-car that we pre-booked was to be picked up from the airport, then our plan was to set out to the 3 hour drive to Killarney!

Our ride! We went to pick up our ride from Six T rentals and after waiting a million years for someone to inspect the car scratches, learning that our GPS does't attach, and getting a new GPS, we finally left the airport about 2 hours later at 11:30am (after meeting a friend from California along the way who showed off her BMW). We got an Opal... I never heard of this kind of car before but Aleksy somehow did.

And on route on the drive to Killarney, I had some nerves... opposite side of the car, Aleksy shifting with the shifter on the left... so scary. Aleksy was all like.. "can I have my apple?" and I did not want him to have the eating distraction... but he insisted that he knows how to drive.

Along the way, things got a little more comfortable... so comfortable that we found a Tim Hortons along the Highway! Who knew?? Tim's... in Ireland... at a Barack Obama rest station! We had to give it a whirl and it tasted like a Starbucks Americano... not like a regular Tims from home. Actually coffee everywhere in the UK was really hard to find under the $4 price.

We got to our hotel around 3pm, tried to figure out whee to park, then checked in. It was a little later in the day, so we thought we would do the driving tour that day of the Ring of Kerry. We thought it was a little loop, but it ended up taking around 4 hours! But we saw the most phenomenal views when touring the Ring of Kerry!

Our first stop blew me away. This was the very beginning of the Ring of Kerry... each stop had a name... I don't remember this one, but I remember walking along the path (avoiding he horse shit from the horse drawn carriage that most people were taking) and being so happy and amazed by my surroundings... these mountains, this river, and the valley in between. We walked for a it then headed back to the tour because we had lots left to see along the driving route.

This was just a "scenic lookout" along the Ring of Kerry... so amazing. We spent a good amount of time taking this all in... coastal Ireland was beautiful all over, but this view was particularly mesmerizing. It was a higher point along the mountain that we were driving up (windy, narrow roads that were pretty scary to drive on and kind of reminded us of Chile), which made the view better, but it was sooo windy at this stop... we had to take some of it in while sitting in the car...

We weren't clever enough to grab a map specific to the Ring of Kerry with all the stops and a list of what they are, but we went by the free map that came with the car... of the whole country of Ireland. It actually showed us a bunch of the tourist stops along the way, including this one: This was called the "staige fort", which was around 2000 years old and was built as a safe place for someone with status... It was actually quite tall, and you can see the steps that allowed for us to walk to the top and there were also little caves at the bottom... it was really amazing! And the country that we were looking onto was beautiful... with about 500 sheep in the surroundings... sheep were everywhere in Ireland, particularly around this Ring of Kerry... and they were painted all different colours!

It was beginning to get dark around this time, so we finished up our driving tour and headed back into Killarney for a later supper! Hopign that we could find a good place aroun 8-9pm (because we learned that in some places, you can only get supper from 5-7pm!! Like in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff... a bunch of places!)

Success. We found this place in Killarney, which I was drawn in by their signature "boxties": I think it was like a potato pancake stuffed with chicken, white sauce and veggies.... it was seriously delic. And this green salad on my plate was the first salad I had eaten in like a week and a half... I remember how good it felt to eat those greens. I guess fish & chips is not really a sustainable diet?

After supper, we took a stroll around central Killarney where during the day it was packed with tourists with several seniors and at night there wasn't a soul in sight. I think they all went to bed at 9pm. But.. what we did see was hundreds of high school kids who had just completed (or got the results back?) their testing of some sort... sounded kinda like SATs in the States... they were all out partying and the cops were just watching them drinking... weird.

One of the things that we questioned in Ireland was whether you could just open your beer and walk down the street... there were just so many people doing this. As I wrote this question down... I just googled it... ha! I guess it is legal.

The next morning, we got up early and popped into the grocery store to pack our breakfast and lunch for the day before going to rent our bikes for a day excursion!

We found a good place to rent our bikes from at O'Sullivans then headed out to Killarney National Park to all the main attractions: Muckross House, Muckross Abbey, Ross Castle, and Torch Waterfall.

And along the way to our attractions, we thought there were pretty good views all around... you know like this picture here.... pretty friggin amazing. We also lucked out with sunny, beautiful weather for our day of exploring Killarney by bike!

Our biking excursion started here: after following some girls who took us the wrong way we entered the park to take us to the must-see places.

Our first stop along the way was the the Muckross House. The grounds were gorgeous and the house was old with lots of character and history of plaques around it, but we decided the cost to go inside was not worth our while since we had to be selective with our attractions (for time and money).

This was the torch waterfall. It was lovely. And darn busy (all these touristy places were...). We climbed some rocks for this excellent shot and then about 5 couples copied us afterward... we're kinda brilliant like that. This picture and the waterfall reminds me a lot of some of the Ontario parks with waterfalls that we have seen like Algonquin.

Muckross Abbey: amazing! So full of character and history. I didn't realize when we were approaching it that it was a ruin of what was a church, and also where members of the church resided. I thought it was going to be kinda like the other churches we saw but this was so different. You can see in the picture here that the Abbey was made into a graveyard and there were tombstones even inside the old church. It was huge with several rooms that you could walk through and in the centre, there was a court yard (with a tree!) with an information plaque that gave us an idea of what the rooms were used for. This was seriously cool... I love history like this and best of all touring the place was free and there was information so we could self-tour!

The last stop along our bike tour of Killarney Park was Ross Castle. This castle was different from the others that we saw: it wasn't restored to look structurally put together. It was still somewhere of a ruin. Mind you, Aleksy and I only got a tour of the exterior because to go inside would have costed, and we had run out of time since we were getting close to 1-2pm and we had to drive back to Dublin that day (then take the bus from Dublin airport back to city centre!). It was a busy spot with tourists and like most attractions, plaques so we could educate ourselves about some of the history.

And just before heading back to Killarney town centre to give back our bikes and head back to Dublin, we had some lunch in this awesome spot with the Ross castle behind us and this beautiful view in front! I don't know what it was about these sandwiches, but they were extra delic! Just some meat, cheese and bread we bought at the grocery store in the morning! Another day eating lunch in an unbelievable spot!




After our one night, 2 days in Killarney we headed back to Dublin or the night since we had to leave to catch our ferry for Wales at 6:30am!

Honeymoon Time: Dublin, Ireland

It was Monday September 8th when we headed from the Edinburgh airport to Dublin, Ireland. We got to Edinburgh airport for our flight which was around 1230pm, and I immediately was treated like I had crack on me, or had a solid plan to hijack a plane. I was taken aside for a full body scan, and my carry on bag had a "suspicious" item in it, which meant I went for double scanning. Apparently it was my baby wipes that were really a huge problem. I was full bodied checked and they were very thorough ensuring I had nothing in my underwear waist band.... seriously. But after my crazy security experience, we waited forever to get onto out RyanAir flight and finally made it Dublin in the later afternoon! RyanAir is not the classiest flight we've been on... thats for sure. I wish we took a picture of the bright yellow colours of the seats and overhead luggage storage. From the airport, we grabbed a bus to city Centre to our hotel!

When we went to check into our hotel in Dublin, the clerk at the desk gave us keys to a room, which we went into and saw other peoples belongings in the room. SO bad!! Lucky for those people, I felt like we were infringing on their privacy and left the room quickly, but other people... in Dublin... could've been bad! So we went back and got the keys to our real room... just up 4 massive flights of stairs through 4 corridors including the one Aleksy is in here... jp and down some more stairs then we arrived to our hotel room. Sucks carrying luggage through the entire hotel... sucks!

Once we dropped our luggage, we grabbed our trusty city map (cant leave the hotel without one!) and started our Dublin exploring!

The walk from our hotel to the main strip for restaurants and pubs was an interesting walk. We saw that in Dublin, there are many abandoned store fronts. We had to cross the water to get to Temple Bar (the main touristy strip), and along the way, there were locations that we found ourselves feeling a little uncomfortable with the graffiti on the abandoned storefronts, and minimal people around. it was quite bizarre... thousands of people on the street of Temple Bar, and everywhere else.. vacant.

We did eat in Temple Bar our first night in Dublin. There was a lot of advertising outside on the street for the tourists... everyone wanting the tourists to go to their restaurant where they all serve food for double the price because its temple bar. We found this place and I had a irish beef stew with mashed and Aleksy had a shephards pie. It was quite delic I remember, but it was so pricey!

After our crazy priced supper in Temple Bar, we took a little walking tour of Dublin along the water at night. It was really pretty along the river of the city centre, this was our route back to the hotel from Temple Bar.. but to leave the direct route... not recommended...

Walking along the water at night... really nice!

After dinner at Temple Bar, we made one last stop at the bar that was right down the street from our hotel. We saw some advertising outside of the bar earlier when walking, and we thought drinks were gonna be really cheap at this bar (compared to Temple Bar). When we got to the bar and asked about the amazing deals posted in the windows (2 euros for beers?!), the bartender looked at us funny and said that was for take away.... embarrassing!! Apparently, in Dublin you get your pint at the bar, and when you're ready to go home, you take a 6 pack to go!

We both grabbed our first pints of Guinness at this bar though... and used our euros from our friends for our drinks. This is the envelope from Nicole from our shower! We also got euros from Chels and Warren for our wedding!

So we learned that the bar by our hotel was not cheap and not cool... and we're pretty cool so we decided to head back into Temple Bar where we assumed everyone in Dublin was having drinks. This bar, the Temple Bar was pretty packed inside, and there were benches alongside the outside of the bar, where Aleksy is sitting! While sitting outside having our beverages, there was a homeless man who approached us to ask for money... he was pretty persistent, and the bouncers of the bar tried to get him to leave the customers alone, but he kept coming back. Aleksy and I were not that disturbed by the guy, but the bouncer seemed more disturbed than us and ended up pushing the homeless man so he almost fell over... we thought it really crossed the boundary of disrespect and gave us an ugly taste of some of the people in Ireland.

But nonetheless, we still enjoyed the rest of our beer/cider outside before calling it a night.

The next morning, I 100% made it my mission to find a breakfast place where I could get an Irish coffee. I didn't know exactly what was in one, but I knew I wanted one. And we found a good little restaurant near the hotel that did breakfast on O'Connell St (one of the main strips in Dublin for shopping, touristy things). Aleksy got himself an Irish breakfast with a beer (because of course they served at that 1030am hour and there were like 5 men drinking at the bar already... you know... on a Tuesday). I had a cider and an IRISH COFFEE with my breakfast!! When I took a sip, I realized immediately.. Irish coffee = whisky + coffee... holy potent. I left breakfast with a buzz... seriously.

While sitting outside enjoying our breakfast and cold beverages (what a great combo), there was a spontaneous parade that went right by us... random!! We watched it go by from our outside seats where we were having breakfast and this little lady in the picture was the cutest thing of life. She was so excited about this parade and managed to score a free Ireland flag AND a free soccer ball.... she was smiling ear to ear... she was with a tour bus, and we know that she had an awesome morning!

After breakfast, we headed to the Jameson distillery for a tour! This is just outside the distillery. The tour was kinda like going through a museum of how they make whisky with a bit of history about this particular distillery that no longer makes whisky. It was interesting, but would have been a little cooler if the equipment was actually used to make whisky and we could see.
After the tour, we each had one drink of Jameson (included in the tour): Aleksy's straight, and mine mixed with ginger ale.

This was our only full day in Dublin, so we had to squeeze in as many things as we could! Right after the tour of Jameson, we headed to the old Kilmainham Gaol (prison) for a tour. This one was really cool! We learned that this prison is from the 1800s and public hangings used to occur inside and outside the jail walls. There were lots of well known Irish activists that served time here, and children as well. Each of these doors is an individual cell and we were able to go into several of them along the tour. The jail was closed for use in the beginning of the 1900s, and there was a period where it was grown over and the public raised money to restore it. This part in the picture has been used for lots of movies too!

After touring a Gaol, I really wanted to try to make it to the Guinness Store house for either a tour, or even just to look around and by a souvenir... we heard from a couple from Chicago we met on the Jameson tour that there was a good view from the top of the Guinness Storehouse. But we got there right as it closed (around 5/6pm), so we didn't get to go in!! Boooo!! But we got a couple pictures of the Guinness brewery.. and we did get to have a couple pints of the stuff at the local pubs.

During our trip, we became kind of castle snobs of sorts. You see... we saw lots of castles, so when some weren't as nice as others... we noticed. Ha!

We took a quick peak through Dublin Castle, and noticed that it wasn't quite like the Edinburgh castle and there were parts that looked nothing more special than a regular business building. This part here though shows some of the origins, and the nice part about Dublin Castle was that it wasn't completely blocked off to tourists. Without paying the castle entrance fee, we could still get into the court area and walk around a bit!

Not far from the castle, we walked to the Trinity College, which is a university from the 1600s in the heart of Dublin. There was this really cool library that we wanted to look at in the university, but it was closed too (this is what happens when you try to pack in too much in a day... multiple closures). But we walked through the university, admiring some of the old architecture like this arch.

We also heard lots of people "without accents" who speak like us at the university! Or as the Irish believe it, those who do have accents....

Back to Temple bar! You know... the only safe place to eat and drink in Dublin...

We grabbed a pint... and when the man that is also captured in this photo on the right began playing live music, we said for sure we would stay for 2 pints at the pub.. But then after finishing our 1... we left. We seemed to not stay for any more than one drink at any pub when we went for drinks... maybe we're not as cool as we lead on.

But you know.. we hadn't had supper yet so we needed to get some take away fish & chips! We saw this place on O'Connell St. which seemed like a happening fish & chip joint and thought we would save some money and not eat at a restaurant that night. Take away supper & drinks!

We ate back at our hotel and called it a night because we knew the next day was busy.... we got to pick our car up from the Dublin airport and head to Killarney!

Next post of the Honeymoon: Killarney, Ireland, one of the most scenic, beautiful placed I've been!

Honeymoon Time: Edinburgh, Scotland

We arrived to Edinburgh, Scotland after a very brief hour and a bit bus ride from Glasgow on September 6th. We got to the Edinburgh coach station around 11:30am and tried to contact a private room rental on airbnb that we had been messaging the night previously. We were looking for hotels for the night in Edinburgh, but everything was really expensive so we tried airbnb.... never again!! After a $5 phone call trying to connect with this person, he said that he left for Glasgow for the day and wouldn't be back til night. So... we were homeless for the night, Edinburgh was 95% booked as per booking.com and the cheapest rental was around $400 a night. It was a great moment. Aleksy contemplated renting a car to sleep in for the night, but I just kept refreshing my webpage... and a miracle of a last minute cancellation came up!!! Best news ever! Aleksy and I high-fived to the amazing deal of a $200 a night hotel and headed to the Brooks Hotel.

We started walking toward our hotel, and immediately were crazy impressed by Edinburgh... just walking along the street with a castle in front of us, gothic buildings within sight, and tons of architecturally impressive buildings everywhere. We knew almost immediately this was gonna be a good one... and Edinburgh was the favourite of our vacation!

Our hotel, the Brooks Hotel was adorable (behind me in the pic... just mind the rubbish cans). We just dropped our bags at this point, but it was super traditional with a big lounge, dining room, and the staff were so nice. We dropped our bags and began exploring!

We quickly grabbed some lunch sandwiches to go and headed up to tour the castle! We very casually had our lunch right in front of the castle before heading in for our tour... you know sandwiches and donuts in front of a thousand year old castle... no big deal.

It was a bit of a line up to pay our 30 pounds or so to get in (with an opt out/cheap out on the audio tour).. but we both decided that it was so worth it to get to go inside the castle walls... so much history and so beautiful. This picture is taken about the centre of the castle, which had so many separate old buildings within it. We saw a couple of different weddings happening there at the castle while we were there too... so amazing.... but not as awesome as ours... There was a little chapel in the middle of the castle that was dated from the 1000s.

After our tour of the Edinburgh Castle, we headed down the Royal Mile: A street that is elevated to the city, close to the elevation of the castle and is filled with touristy stores like scotch, and scottish souvenir shops. This is St. Giles Cathedral, which is about halfway down the Royal Mile and we could go in freeeeee (with everything costing so much... we really appreciated when things weren't 20 pounds to get in)! It was absolutely beautiful and huge inside. We also saw a man propose in front of the church (it was the fastest proposal ever).

After walking along the entire Royal Mile, we headed up to an outlook viewpoint of Edinburgh, which had the most beautiful view of Edinburgh. It didn't take much effort to get to the top point, and we could see everything from this view: behind us here you can see the castle, and the royal mile along with the rest of the city!

After our amazing views of Edinburgh, we headed to the Grass Market for some grub! Well, not exactly... we got caught in the rain, looked up and down the streets of Edinburgh outside of the touristy places hoping for a less expensive place to eat, then ended back at the Grass Market for supper! And I'm glad we did, because it was an awesome supper: This is me enjoying my chicken and haggis supper with mashed and veggies. I may not be the biggest fan of haggis by itself, but with chicken and mashed... extra salty... Mmmmm. And of course my go-to beer in Scotland: Tennants.

After supper, we grabbed some drinks from the store for the hotel, and decided to spend the night booking the rest of our trip because I really didn't want to sleep in a car at any point of this vacation!!

When we got back to the hotel, we saw our amazing room (you get what you pay for!) and were shown the "honesty bar" where you take whatever scotch, wine, drinks you like and just write it down on the paper there. And we got a round free because it was our honeymoon... the only real perk we got for being on our honeymoon during our vacation!

The next day, after an amazing eggs benedict breakfast at the hotel (Aleksy obviously had more haggis... the "traditional scottish breakfast"), we headed to Edinburgh hotel #2, dropped off our bags and the man at the hotel made some suggestions of site seeing: he told us about this market in the picture that was just down the street where we ended up getting our to-go lunch for our day of hiking, and he also told us about a tour called the "Mary Kings Close", which is a tour of the Underground world of Edinburgh. He was super nice and informative and the "Guest House" we were staying in had tall ceilings and huge crown molding.

After grabbing lunch from the market just down from our Guest House, we started our hike at "Arthurs Seat", which is the very top point of the mountain that outlines Edinburgh. Contrary to what the name suggests, the top of the mountain wasn't a seat, but was 2 pillars and a concrete pad... yup we made it to the top.

And this was about halfway up our hike: The history to this city was so amazing... ruins were all over the UK and this was halfway up a mountain.

This is heading up to the top of the mountain... Aleksy is quite fond of taking routes that are not part of the pathed way up (we went through this on our hike in Chile) so we had to go up the alternate route... which was actually nice because there weren't a million people going up with us. The top of the moutain behind me doesn't look so big but if you look really closely you can see some tiny dots along the top... and those tiny dot are approximately 283422847728 people... it was quite the hike up there.

And.... the top! So high up and we could see all of Edinburgh! It was quite windy up there... It didn't take too long to get there... maybe about an hour.

After spending some moments taking in the amazingness of the views of our favourite Honeymoon city, we sought out a place or lunch that was slightly less filled with people. This was our lunch at the top of the mountain: white wine, a homemade loaf of multigrain bread, jam preserves, and a scottish pie! And... we ate and drank it all!! (well.. there was some jam left...).

We probably spent about a hour at the top enjoying our lunch and view, then headed down the mountain... and a whole bottle of wine = a little wobbly on the way down...

Our hotel for the night: The abercraig guest house. We had an amazing big room, and the gentleman who ran the guest house gave us some great history of where the Guest House is located (where the wealthy used to live, just removed from the city centre) and suggested that we go to the Mary Kings Close tour of the underground world of Edinburgh. So we booked the tour for 8:30pm after our hike, headed to our room so we could put some warmer clothes on (because temperature at night and during the day are like different seasons) then headed to Rose St. which is known for restaurants.

Our supper on Rose St.: I had bangers, mashed with some yorkshire puddings and Aleksy had the fish pie.... its all about the traditional style foods.... so delic!

After this we started our underground walking tour and learned that during the 1600s when the plague hit Edinburgh, that the Royal mile buildings were built on top of existing buildings and that the purpose was to seclude those infected with the plague. Thye talked about how the plague was spread with poor hygiene (emptying buckets of human waste onto the streets) and it was when the guide was explaining how the Dr's treated victims that I started feeling light-headed... then fainted, right to the floor. Embarassing... it was a mix of no oxygen and the gross content of what we were learning and I was done!

So a manager was called and I was escorted up out of the underground world and we started back to our hotel.. wah wah wah...

But.. we did take a second to take in how beautiful the castle was all lit up at night!

This was our last night in Edinburgh. The next morning, we had breakfast included at the Guest House where we both had a scottish breakfast (although sans haggis for me because I couldn't do anymore, but did have black pudding) then headed by bus to the Airport in Edinburgh to fly to Dublin, Ireland on the Monday!

Honeymoon Time: Glasgow, Scotland!

After spending a night and 2 full days exploring London, on Wednesday September 3rd, we caught a late night coach which took us to Glasgow, Scotland... it was about 8 hours and we got to Glasgow around 8am on the Thursday. It was a long, full coach that was pretty uncomfortable and there was a man behind us with a very heavy Scottish accent talking to his girlfriend "Mary" (with accent "Miri") about how he is "sorry" and was losing weight and changing his life around. Really an unforgettable phone conversation for a completely quiet bus. But you know, no complaints for 20 pounds (less than $40 for both of us!).

We arrived by coach to the Glasgow coach station around 8-9am. We were sooo exhausted after trying to sleep on the bus overnight to no avail. We didn't have any hotel booked at that time, but knew there was a Premier Inn nearby for around 80 pounds a night... we walked with our luggage to the Premier Inn and... success! A room for 2 nights: Thurs and Fri available and we were able to check in at that early time! We learned from London that we need our rest to explore so we crashed until 1pm, then went out to explore Glasgow. This pic is in front of our hotel, post-nap, feeling up to start the day!

We looked up a bunch of things to do in all the cities we visited, and we found that one of the recommendations in Glasgow was called the "Lighthouse", which offered a museum as well as a good view of the whole city! This is the staircase that we walked p to get to the view... just a cool picture... Aleksy's at the bottom looking up and I'm up a couple of stories,

W got to see a few cities from tall buildings/towers, and Glasgow was one of them. It wasn't quite as high as our London outlook, but still really cool to see the city from above!

After the lighthouse, we headed over to the gothic cathedral which is right beside the necropolis. We didn't go in the cathedral (got some pictures of the exterior), but we made sure that we were able to go through the necropolis, which was so big, extending over lots of land, and gradually going up for a view of the city too! The graves/tombs were so old, large and interesting to read. Aleksy and I were really drawn to and shocked by the family tombstones with multiple children who died at very young ages which seemed to be very common in the 1700-1800s.

This picture was taken from an upper point of the necropolis with a view of the gothic cathedral (left) ad the hospital (the large building extending for most the picture to the right of the cathedral).

We learned so quick that people in Scotland were so nice (way nicer than London), and when Aleksy and I were walking trying to find the necropolis and cathedral a lady who was in her car on the phone saw we were lost, asked the person she was talking to hold on a sec so she could give us direction... and we didn't even ask! The people were just so friendly and helpful!

Our plan after the necropolis was to go on a brew tour of the Tenants brewery, but they were full for the evening because their last tour was at 5pm. We booked our tour for the following day and decided to go back to the "Old College Bar", which we had passed on the way to the necropolis for some beers! This was the oldest pub in Glasgow, and we had a couple Tenants beers, at which time I realized a) I friggin love Tenants beers and b) I didn't miss the warm, strong beers served in London (Tenants was cold!).

After our beers, we sought out a dinner place... looking for something of the pub sort, and this is when we realized that finding a place to eat supper after 6-7pm is next to impossible! We did end up finding a place, which was pub style where I was able to order a meat pie and chips, and Aleksy had some haggis for the first time! I tried it too... and I actually liked it!

Day 2: Our day was pretty laid back the second day: we woke up and it was raining! So we decided to take it easy, and do some shopping. We discovered the Primark store, which is like a UK Forever 21 (they did also have Forever 21) and I bought rain boots and a raincoat (which was so handy for the UK's crazy weather!) and Aleksy bought a sweater, some pants, a "manbag", and a tie!
We then walked along the water, probably about 3 km, then headed back for our brew tour of Tenants.

We got all ready for our tour with our "On Tour" vests, hats, and headphones. We got a tour of how beer was brewed, going through the whole process (Aleksy would go on and on here about this process)... essentially, we went through where the beer was brewed and the bottling process.

And at the end of the tour, we got to enjoy "a pint" in the lounge area of the brewery. The tour guide who is in this picture on the farthest left said because it was Friday evening, that we could have more! So we had a few drinks, and got a picture with the whole gang that we toured with. These guys were from Brazil and were engineers studying abroad: such a coincidence... 7 engineers and me!

After our tour, we sought out to find a good fish & chip place for some take away... it was getting a bit late at 8-9pm, so we thought take away would be better and we knew we needed to have lots of fish & chips in the UK. The fish & chips we had were soo tasty... we saw them dip the fresh fish and cook it in front of us. And they don't serve with ketchup... just salt and malt vinegar.

On our loooonnngg walk earlier in the day (in the crazy on and off rain weather), we scoped out a good pub that was not a food pub, but a good place to get a drink later at night. We went to the Scotia in Glasgow on our last night for a couple drinks and some very drunk man saw we were taking a selfie and volunteered to take our picture: this is his masterpiece! Ha! Just a little fuzzy...





After our last night in Glasgow (Fri the 5th), we caught our pre-booked bus to Edinburgh the next morning around 10am! Next Honeymoon post is our favourite city of the honeymoon: Edinburgh Scotland!