Edinburgh. From London we flew to Edinburgh, Scotland. A friend of mine from my freshman year at Lipscomb lives there with her family. She came to see us in Vienna one school week and she offered her house to us while we were in Scotland. Her family gracefully opened their arms to nine loud, crazy and goofy girls. The mother was sweet. She insisted on making us breakfast and dinner every night. She fixed some favorites of ours from home and also served us some classic Scottish dishes. One night for example we had Sheppard’s pie and haggis.
We went to the beach near Hailey’s house. She showed us all around her town, where she had gone to school and even church. We also went to a church and a grave yard right off the beach that looked like the ideal of Scotland I had in my head. Hailey took us shopping and to Edinburgh to see the castle and the city itself. Edinburgh was only an hour drive from her house in Dundee but we only went one day. We spent about four days at Hailey’s relaxing, watching movies, and studying. It was a amazing little break within the trip to get to stay in a house.
In Edinburgh, the afternoon while we were there we decided that we wanted to go on a scary ghost walk through town. It was fun to see a lot of the historical part of the city but also have a Halloween spin on it because of the holiday around the corner. Our tour guide took us underground into the vaults of the city. Edinburgh is as deep in the ground as the city is tall. The vaults were scary and spooky. Our tour guide had tons of death and haunting stories. Luckily I had no confrontations with the ghosts of Edinburgh.
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