UK & Ireland - Summer 2006 |
Day 5 - Driving from London to Edinburgh (on the left side of the road!) |
Day five was our day to leave London
and drive to Edinburgh, Scotland. We picked up a minivan at the airport
and, much like putting together a puzzl,e got everyones' luggage into
the back and were on the road. After a few quick stops we took a slight
detour at Morpeth, a small town outside of Newcastle Upon Tyne, for
lunch. Finding lunch was not as easy as we had hoped; most places were
done with lunch and not yet open for dinner. We selected the first open
restaurant to get a meal before we continued our trip up the coast into
Scotland. Once in the city of Edinburgh there was much confusion in
finding the hotel and once we found it, they did not have our reservation.
They did have two rooms for the first two nights at there sister hotel,
The Edinburgh Residence, only a few houses down. This hotel was a maze
of non-air-conditioned rooms and hallways, but we had somewhere to sleep
and they were quite large. We walked up the street to dinner and decided
that finding someone else to do the driving around Scotland might be
a good idea. |