The Outskirts of Edinburgh, Scotland

Castles and Hills

Went on a day tour to the outskirts of Edinburgh (Scotland) and I thoroughly enjoyed much of its fresh air, greenery and breathtaking views. Also, as a Singaporean, it's pretty amazing to see real living cattle grazing on grass looking as cute as ever (in spite of that, I'll still gladly eat steaks, beef burgers and lamp chops). 

I visited Stirling castle, which was really indeed like a normal castle you'll see out of the many numerous historical landmarks Scotland and really, the whole of UK there is. I walked around and did all sorts of touristy nonsense. I'm not really a fan of taking every single thing I see everywhere I go thus less picture, sowi. Hee. It is almost mandatory to visit at least one castle when you're in the UK, it's definitely eye opening and interesting to hear the stories that once lived within the walls of these castles. This is me speaking as a person whom never loved studying history, really.

Plus, I have a new found love of celtic music despite the bagpipes being played. There's just this sense of peacefulness and aura in their songs which makes it sound so alluring to listen to. I don't know, maybe I'm just easily captivated :)

The local day-tour I went on was Heart of Scotland where your tour guides are local and probably more audible than those Chinese tour guides, which I preferably do not like. I personally liked this tour because of the small group it takes in (15 people) and my tour guide was really animated and amusing. So I recommend going on this their tours if you're heading to scotland :) Teehee.

Did you know that the word "loch" is actually "lake"? 

I sound so unentertaining. Oh wells, I'm blogging from at night so hope you don't mind my mundane tone in my writing heh!