19 April

“Good morning everybody, today…” hey the captain woke me up by the radio!
So, still no food, happily I took a little box of cornflakes with me.

We arrived in Newcastle and were going to Edinburgh, the capital city of Scotland! We had free time into Edinburgh, and Cyrille bought a kilt!

Edinburgh has 2 parts separated by Princess Street, the new town and the old town. We visited the new town by coach and saw the school of mister been! We visited the old town on foot, I found it more interesting because I love the old buildings and it was so sunny that it was very pleasant to walk along the royal mile (from the holy rood house to the castle, this road is one mile). You’ve got to look well, because there are some beautiful wynds, a piece of peace along a famous street; these seem to be private but no! You can go and just have a look! Enjoy!

After that we just went to Glenshee and we saw for the fist time what I call “true Scottish landscapes” it’s exactly what you can imagine: hills, mountains everywhere with brooks and rivers, the grass is very small because there are ships everywhere! Scotland has 5 million inhabitants, and 10 million ships! So you can imagine all the little white points that you can see in the landscape with all the girls saying “oohhh” each lamb.
Finally arriving to the spittal of Glenshee, our hotel. In the middle of nowhere, in the mountains, it was an idyllic place. We had a house for all of us with bedrooms of 4 or 6 and 4 bathrooms, the hotel-restaurant was further, and there was just one standard lamp behind the hotel, so we were in total darkness on the way “home” and I found it was sometimes frightening, especially when I was alone. On the evening we had our first true meal, dresser at will, really good!