Edinburgh, St Andrews and the Cairngorm mountains

St andrews hole 18

This week has been an up and down week, but the next day we went to St.Andrews to see the golf course. We got up and headed out to St.Andrews and arrived at the city and went straight down to the golf course. It was pretty cool - the landscape and the countryside that is next to the golf course is amazing. We walked along the beach (Great beach at St andrews) then went to the British Golf Museum after taking some pictures of the Golf course. The golf museum contained lots of information about the history of golf, as well as old artifacts etc. It was not so bad - even though I'm not the biggest golf fan. This took up about 4 hours and as the sun sets now at about 4.00 it doesn't leave alot of time for things to be done. So we headed back from St Andrews to Stirling along the coastal road seeing a few things - but not a huge amount. That night we went out to dinner with Kerry and Martin and then he put on a film when he got home - not really talking to us much. It was a strange CS experience the whole time really. The day was weird because Andrew didn't get out of the car all day - just drive us around.
Anyway, the next day we went into the city of Edinburgh - firstly to see the Camera obscurer center. Which was a whole lot of paintings and camera illusions etc. It was very good - and well worth the price (9.95). Bought a few souvenirs and things and then went to the outside of the castle - we were trying to get in to see the Scottish war museum, but they wouldn't let us in without paying to get into the castle (which cost 14 pounds) so we opted out and then went up to see the national history museum of Scotland. It was HHUUUGGGESSSS. 7 floors, and with live T-Rex skeleton,   a huge stuffed animal exhibition, massive amounts of industry, politics etc. There was too much to see - so we briefly skimmed most things, read the interesting things, and then headed back to car car and walked up Arther seat. That gave us very good views of the city,(when we got there it was dark - stupid 4.30 darkness) although I struggled to walk up it with my hamstring still a little sore from soccer. We stayed and had dinner in the city - (tak harus menonton tv lagi)and then headed back about 8pm.  The next day we were leaving at about 10 after I tried to find the international rules on the TV but to no avail. We then headed to Grantown, (in the Cairngorm mountains) which is about a 4 hour drive. We didn't do much that day - just drive and then watch tv in our hotel room - lets say it was a rest day. The weather was remarkably good for northernish scotland.. Today was a good day, but I will write about that tomorrow.

The view at night from Arthur's seat