Well this past week I have been accompanied by my friend Rachel (famous blog reader) who I used to work with at National City Bank like eh 4-5ish years ago! We haven't seen each other in about 2 years I would guess and she and I have kept in touch via phone, email, and most recently facebook and my blog! She was super intrigued in me in all of my travels since I moved to the UK and she practically had her ticket booked during my first couple of weeks living abroad! Needless to say that was like back in April and now she is finally here and it's September. All in all, I'm having a FAB time with her and her friend Kate. We started out the venture on Friday - when they landed in LHR in the morning. I gave them very specific directions to get to my flat and needless to say after a little bit of waiting at the train station, they were rolling their suitcases down the bridge to the gates! YAY! I gave them the 2 minute tour of my flat and then we caught up for a bit. Rach & Kate then took a nap and I finished up work and went out to get some food. I woke them up for showers and then we headed to London Victoria station to catch the overnight coach to Edinburgh!
The coach experience wasn't super great for them - probably because they were already super jet lagged and then also as they couldn't sleep period because they were on a bus. I felt bad, but we must carry on! We had a splendid day in Edinburgh on Saturday. The weather was just lovely and I actually saw quite a few things that I didn't get to see my first time that I was there. We got lunch at a cute pub and where they enjoyed their first PIE!. After all this maddness we ventured to our QUAINT hotel/apartment which is in a different part of town and reached it by dusk walking about 25 minutes from city centre. We checked in and started drinking some wine and snacking. Then we went out to eat at a nearby pub which had spectacular food! I enjoyed a Stella and they were totally into the cidars!
Sunday we ventured out for a day trip to the highlands and to see some castles! The weather was needless to say a complete 180 from Saturday so unfortunately it was rain rain rain. The views were still spactacular and it was nice to just get out and see. My umbrella took a turn for the worse up in the high hills of the highlands. Had to buy a new cheap 2 quid one to get me through the rest of the journey. Sunday night, we took the coach back to London and arrived into Victoria coach station around 7am.
I worked from home on Monday and then later in the afternoon we ventured into London! We took a 3 hour bus tour with a live guide who was so awesome! I really enjoyed this tour so much and I actually learned a lot even though I had been on a lot of London tours. I also saw a few new sights aswell. We then went to dinner and I had some rubbish fish and chips! Not good - but I will try them again some time. It was then dark and we walked from Buckingham Palace, through Trafalgar Square, and down the pedistrian bridge to Waterloo station. Rachel got some amazing pictures of Big Ben & London Eye by night!
Tuesday & Wednesday - needless to say I've had to be at boring work! But the girls are enjoying themselves and I'm currently waiting for them to return as I write this so that I can hear about their day yesterday and today and also see all of their pictures from the concert, show, and Windsor Castle!
Who wants to visit me next?? I promise a good time
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