Amsterdam, Holland, Europe Today we woke up to a rainy day for the first time on this holiday. Not bad considering we’d already spent 5 days in Scotland and The Netherlands. We walked around for 30 minutes before finding a place selling crappy umbrellas, so by that point we were soaked and the umbrellas seemed totally pointless. Regardless, we got the umbrellas and waited in line for Anne Frank’s house. We had to wait for a while, but it was…
Amsterdam, Holland, Europe Today had a well deserved easy start to it. We got to sleep late and then had nowhere to be until early afternoon. That was a very good thing for me since I hadn’t started packing yet, and Ryan’s suitcase seemed to have exploded in my flat. So we spent the morning getting ready to take off for mainland Europe stop #1: Amsterdam. We stopped in at the world famous Preacher’s Patisserie for lunch before heading to…
St. Andrews, United Kingdom, Europe Today we took a ride up to St Andrews to show Ryan one of the nicest towns in Scotland. Again, we got lucky with the weather, it was sunny and warm, but very windy up on the coast. The drive up to St Andrews was relaxing and very entertaining for me, as Ryan kept falling asleep and head-bobbing the whole time. It was hilarious. We stopped in for a drink at Ma Bells, then on…
Barr, United Kingdom, Europe Today’s motive was to find McWilliam Farm in Barr, Scotland. This was the farm that Ryan’s Great Grandfather lived on, so we thought we would try to find that. We drove for just over two hours to get to Barr, but were unable to find anything that said “McWilliam Farm” on it, so it’s tough to say if we ever did find his family’s land. Regardless, it was a nice drive and the weather ended up…
Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Europe Ryan and I had awesome weather for his first day in Edinburgh. It was about 75*F (21*C) and sunny all day, so it was probably the best start we could have hoped for. We walked all through Edinburgh stopping frequently at bars to give Ryan a taste of the pub culture of Scotland. We got up the Royal Mile to see Edinburgh Castle, Holyrood Palace, and Holyrood Park. At night we found a bar that was…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa We finished our trip off with a nice relaxing day in Marrakech riding camels. We found out yesterday that our camel trek today was going to pick us up at 10:20am rather than 9am, so that was a nice bonus. We were able to sleep late, get packed up and ready to check out of the hotel and go trekking. Our tour guide was right on time and we were greeted by the smiling faces of Patty…
Ouzoud, Morocco, Africa Today started off much better than yesterday. After breakfast, we found our tour guide waiting for us in the lobby…early! We got in the van and met the two English girls we would be sharing today’s excursion with. Patty and Kate were from Bristol, and are just travelling around the same as us, trying to find the touristy places. We settled in for the 3 hour drive ahead of us to the Ouzoud Cascades. We drove for…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa Our second day in Marrakech didn’t get off to the best start. We were planning on going on a half day camel trek, which was booked and paid for a couple months ago. The tour guide showed up at 9am, picked us up and we went off in the van with a couple of other French people. We went to a very dodgy crossroads and waited for about 10 minutes. No other guests came, so the driver…
Marrakech, Morocco, Africa We arrived in Marrakesh at 6:00pm and walked off the plane to be hit in the face with a wall of heat. At that point it was only about 90*F (30*C). I can just imagine what tomorrow is going to be like out in the middle of the desert, on a dirty camel, in the beating sun, in the middle of the day. It’s gonna be great! We walked around the Marrakesh airport for about 30 minutes…