Week 15, Trip to Scotland part 1

Second week of Easter Holidays started with lazy Easter Monday. I wanted to bake Easter cake at weekend, but I didn't really have any inspiration for that, so I decided to make a Easter crepe cake with mango and chocolate at next Tuesday, which was slightly late. At Tuesday morning I noticed my delicious mango was already rotten, so I changed plans and made a raspberry chocolate crepe cake! I have never done any crepe cakes, so it was my first to try.

Haha. It looks good, I have to say! :P 

I also cut my hair at hairdresser. My hair ends was in really bad condition and I had a voucher for a hairdresser, so I used my change. Only bad thing was they washed my hair, used conditioner, hair oil and and hair foam. Every hair product had a different smell so I literally stinked after and I had to wash my hair again at the evening cause I couldn't bear that smell anymore and my nose was runny.

Early at Wednesday morning we took train to Edinburgh, Scotland and spend one day at there. At first we went to Edinburgh Castle, which cost a lot to get in and we spent there about two hours going around. Castle is top of hill of the city and the view was great. Inside the castle was many museums about Jacobites and war, too many I say. I'm not really a museum person, so just went trough some of the museums.

Outside the castle was a tourist shop which I wanted to check, and I think it was one of the best decisions. At inside was many rooms filled with scarfs, duvets, kilts and other products from wool, cashmere, alpaca wool, goat wool and merino. Such a heaven! They even had weaving machines below the shop. Before I came to Scotland, I looked I could maybe find a scarf for myself and I did. I wasn't so excited about the colours they had, but I found a scarf I liked. After coming out from the tourist shop, I saw many other scarf shops.

On the way to hill called, Arthur's Seat, I saw The Elephant cafe, where J.K.Rowling wrote her books and had quick peak inside National Museum of Scotland. Arthur's Seat is big hill on the right side of Edinburgh and it's 250 meters high (822 ft.). Our luck we took the longer way and walked long time a circular movement. Way to the top was slightly exhausting. It was promised to be cloudy and slightly rainy, but weather was sunny and hot. It took almost few hours to get there and the view was amazing. Way back we walked almost straight path, which we didn't see before climbing up hill.

                           

  
  

Next day we took a train to Glasgow and spent a day there. My first time at the tearoom was eating Scottish haggis (savoury pudding with sheep's pluck) and carrot cake. We really liked haggis the way it was served to us, I think there might be similar traditional foods also in Finland.

We walked around the city centre, went to the People's Palace & Winter Garden, Glasgow Cathedral, Glasgow Suspencion Bridge and Roman Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral. Made lots of steps during that day as day before. At the evening we ate good and cheap food at Jamie Oliver's restaurant 'Jemie's Italian'.

        

  

             

                                                                                                                                                                

                                   

This was the last day at Scotland now and I would like to travel around there more. Unfortunately cities and towns are so far away from each other and every movie destination is middle of nowhere. At least I have visited at the main cities and later on it's good to come here and visit places I haven't seen (Which takes ages to travel every place I want to see in Uk and it cost lots of money. But someday I will!).

At the weekend I watched my first football match. It wasn't so bad than I expected. :P