Well hello again followers, its back to Brad again... been a few more than seven since my last update, but I dear not rob you of the linguistic talents of my fair Kylie too often.
Bit of a slow start to the day today as last night took an unexpected turn...
The night started with a nice dinner at a bar just across the road from the old course! Kylie had some Thai beef wraps, as she is trying to eat local food where possible (hehe actually she has had pollock, haddock, Scottish salmon and mackerel on other occasions, just like ‘River Cottage’), I had another burger and my new favourite... hot chips swimming in vinegar with ketchup and mayo! Mmmmmm chips with vinegar! We then ventured home and went to the communal lounge when our local host at the St Andrews Hostel (a Scottish lad named Ed, whom according to Kylie was rather attractive and charming with his accent) brought out a bottle of wine... naturally one thing led to another and before we knew it we were at a local pub with Ed, a Frenchy and two Canadian girls drinking Japanese rice beer and having a grand old time! Unfortunately the local bars close at midnight so we had to head back to the hostel... to bed you ask? Well of course not, young Ed brought out a few small bottles of herbal liqueur from Latvia (tasted of burnt oily coffee/jagermeister/burning), which is supposed to be drunk warm with berry juice, however desperate times meant rounds of shots... Luckily for us 12 Swedish chaps came home and drank some, otherwise we may have been working off a hangover for a few days! We stayed up chatting with the Canadians and Ed, with Ed telling us the four places we must visit whilst we are here, all out west which we have scheduled for the day we drive from Loch Ness to Glasgow. We finally drifted off at around 2.30am for a pretty short but sweet sleep.
Feeling slightly tired this morning we ventured around the local ruins in St Andrews, naturally after a large breakfast of scrambled eggs and Scottish salmon. The old grave yard and ruins of the old chapel were very picturesque situated on the cliffs overlooking the North Sea. Nice way to spend the morning after the night before. We ventured on up towards Aberdeen, after picking up a few St Andrews mementos, and stopping at Dundee (Scotland’s fifth biggest city) where we saw little else but the inside of some clothes shops, well that’s not entirely true, we also saw the neat bags that they give you when you buy a maxi dress! We the continued on to the quaint town of Stonehaven. Not much to see there, just a nice quiet coastal town about 10 miles shy of Aberdeen.
Upon arriving at Aberdeen, a fair trade town did you know, we came straight to our hotel - a bargain last minute deal Kylie found on the internet (sometimes that girl is very useful). It is a lovely apartment with kitchen and lounge and a nice TV which went straight to the football and the epic Wimbledon match that finally finished after 11 hours. It’s all quite cheap when you take into account we will cook our own tea, make lunch for tomorrow and breakfast is a buffet included. Great to have a nice place for a good night sleep to reload for the next part of our trip.
Time to relax now, will probably have a nice bath when ‘Location, location, location’ finishes of course.
Until next time, I hope you are all keeping well; we are keeping safe and loving it all.
xox
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