Scotland was an absolute blast. We spent four days traveling through Edinburgh, the Highlands, and Glasgow. I had the opportunity to visit the smallest, yet well known whiskey distillery in Scotland where I found out two things: one, making whiskey is a much more intricate, scientific, and timely process then explainable and two, at this point in my life my taste buds do not at all like whiskey haha
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In addition to the distillery we explored Sterling Castle and Fort Wallace where Braveheart was filmed, Loch Lomond, a wool factory, and miles of highlands while on a bus tour complete with bag pipes playing us sweet tunes through the loud speaker. It was really nice.
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Edinburgh is supposedly the scariest and most haunted town in Europe and I happened to be there on Halloween which was so cool. We went on an underground ghost tour, which was perhaps the most legitimate ghost experience I will ever have, I didn't see anything, but we heard lots of stuff, so scary one of my friends fainted! We also visited the Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle, the Palace, Parliament, and went on a free walking tour done by college students who work solely for tips. It's pretty neat they have them in all the major cities and they are extensive tours 3 hours plus and at the end if you have the money you give what you think it was worth. The tour guides are students taking a year off after college or still in their studies, they always do an awesome job I have done a couple of them! I would suggest for anyone to go visit Scotland, for somewhere that wasn't on my original list of places to visit it was incredible. I stumbled upon a group who wanted to go and a good deal I couldn't have felt more lucky. It was one of the neatest places.
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We learned on this trip that 6 people is the perfect number to go, it was so much easier traveling with a smaller group. We all got along so well. I am making the best friends here! Miss you all, looking forward to seeing most of you during the holidays. Brigette