Friday Sept. 10
Cameron decided to lose both his soothers behind the bunk-beds that are nailed to the wall at 6:00 am. Luckily the cartoons were in English. After showers and packing up we went downstairs for dormstyle Scottish hostel breakfast. We are getting good at this one night stand-pack your luggage in the AM routine. Note to self: don’t order coffee in Scotland (especially if you have spent the last few weeks in France).
We left at 10 am and wandered in the pouring rain to get bus tickets. If you are trying to get places in Edinburgh we highly recommend the tourist office on Princes St. Often it has a huge line but they can book anything you need anywhere in the country-very knowledgable. We discovered through them we could travel for 35£ per person (we paid tickets for Kathryn because they were 1/2price and kids under 5 free) anywhere we wanted for 3 of 5 consecutive days with Citylink. Enough time to get us to Iona and back.
Since our bus didn’t leave until 3:00, we bought Kathryn a new raincoat and a sleeping bag and then went for fish and chips at a very cool pub that even Tolkien would be proud to frequent. We then went on a fruitless search for toques because Scotland is FREEZING!
City link bus route- Edinburgh-Perth (or Glasgow)-Oban (4.5hr)
To go to iona- oban ferry to (isle of Mull) Craignure(50min)-bus Craignure to Finnphort(45min)-Finnphort ferry to Iona (15 min)
On to the bus headed to Perth. Cameron slept on the sleeping Robert, Kathryn slept in her own seat and Simeon talked to me non-stop for two hours! Then we boarded the bus To Oban and I am now seated with the under-the-weather Kathryn who is requesting stories from when I threw-up when I was a little girl. Sim is telling Robbie that he wants to climb all the mountains we are passing and Cameron has switched from yelling “Moo” out the window to “Baa”…we are in Scotland after all.
Cameron decided to lose both his soothers behind the bunk-beds that are nailed to the wall at 6:00 am. Luckily the cartoons were in English. After showers and packing up we went downstairs for dormstyle Scottish hostel breakfast. We are getting good at this one night stand-pack your luggage in the AM routine. Note to self: don’t order coffee in Scotland (especially if you have spent the last few weeks in France).
We left at 10 am and wandered in the pouring rain to get bus tickets. If you are trying to get places in Edinburgh we highly recommend the tourist office on Princes St. Often it has a huge line but they can book anything you need anywhere in the country-very knowledgable. We discovered through them we could travel for 35£ per person (we paid tickets for Kathryn because they were 1/2price and kids under 5 free) anywhere we wanted for 3 of 5 consecutive days with Citylink. Enough time to get us to Iona and back.
Since our bus didn’t leave until 3:00, we bought Kathryn a new raincoat and a sleeping bag and then went for fish and chips at a very cool pub that even Tolkien would be proud to frequent. We then went on a fruitless search for toques because Scotland is FREEZING!
City link bus route- Edinburgh-Perth (or Glasgow)-Oban (4.5hr)
To go to iona- oban ferry to (isle of Mull) Craignure(50min)-bus Craignure to Finnphort(45min)-Finnphort ferry to Iona (15 min)
On to the bus headed to Perth. Cameron slept on the sleeping Robert, Kathryn slept in her own seat and Simeon talked to me non-stop for two hours! Then we boarded the bus To Oban and I am now seated with the under-the-weather Kathryn who is requesting stories from when I threw-up when I was a little girl. Sim is telling Robbie that he wants to climb all the mountains we are passing and Cameron has switched from yelling “Moo” out the window to “Baa”…we are in Scotland after all.
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