Well, we survived Ireland a traipsed our way up to Aberdeen in Scotland. Auk aye its cold up there. We THOUGHT we'd got lucky and hit their summer season right on time when the first 2 days were lovely sunshine....little did we know that they were the hottest days that Aberdeen has had in 5 years or so...and it was only 26 degrees....so we layered on the clothes and handled the chill blain.
Our 'farming' experience ended up just being a 'helping out on a building site' experience as our wwoofing host just used us as lackys during a renovation. I've learnt how to insulate a house atleast, and how to sweep up after builders that know what they are doing...! After 2 days of that rubbish it was looking dire and our boredom was getting the better of us. We stayed in a caravan at the back of the house, with no TV, no radio, and a few crappy books. If we weren't relying on our hosts for a ride into town it was a 45 minute trudge up the country road to the bus stop, then a 20min bus to town. needless to stay our legs are looking pretty fine after that stay - unfortunately due to boredom our tummys are looking beerly round ...:)
Luckily for me our host is in the midst of building a cafe/play barn and I talked him into letting me do a mural for him so the rest of my days were spent drawing and painting - I'll get pictures up eventually. Sam was still floating around getting mighty bored and we escaped to Glasgow after 8 days there and randomly caught up with an old high school mate, Bas.
We spent 3 days in Glasgow - very cool grungy city. The Kelvinbridge Art gallery and Museum is amazing. Its your classic Night at the Museum type of museum. Great taxidermy section, huge models everywhere, and an awesome collection of Scottish and international art. We also went to a stand up comedy gig and saw some classic scottish improv - "Whose Line is it anyway" has nothing on these guys. Hilarious.
Then a 4 pound bus took us to our favourite Scottish city yet - Edinburgh. I dont know if it was the walking malls, or the Castle in the middle of the city, or the street performers, or the fact that we caught up with our mate Elliot again for a few nights of hilarity - but we loved Edinburgh. Very cool energy in this city. We went on a tour of the original alleyways that are now under the city too - very cool to be imagining the 12th Century people and how they lived.
And now we're in London, after a few days hanging with the little sis and checking out the Zoo we are about to head to a small beach side town of Combe Martin. After a quick google search this town looks very promising and I cant wait to check it out. Lets hope that this wwoofing experience is better than the last one!!
