Trains...
I ditched all the boys today and took off to Edinburgh via Train. The Station of Dunfirmlin was very very quiet with only me looking for a train but there were 8 guards waiting to sell me a ticket!! I did ask why so many and the answer was that it was always that many during peak hour... what? just one person makes a peak??? Several more passengers did arrive about 10am but that's when all the guards finished work and were off out before the train arrived! I sat with an 87 year old man and learnt his whole life story which was sweet, his wife had died this year and he was lonely so regularly caught the train into Town to have a coffee and scone at Jenners the Scottish equivalent to Harrods.
There are buskers on every corner and they are all wearing kilts and blowing on bagpipes! The tourists are going off taking photos... One of our group said that the English invented the Bagpipes as a joke but Scotland have never got it!
After lunch in the beautiful gardens I caught another train to Stirling where the boys were going to end up after their day of buses... the British trains are so luxurious and so smooth and the country side is just like you see in postcards, soft and beautiful.
The Royal Hotel at Stirling where we are staying is very old with one of those old lifts that only fit one person and one bag, you have to close both doors before you can move... the stairs got a good workout... the floors creak all the time and it smells of furniture polish and smoke! Our room overlooks the street and a Butcher who tells us he is a Poulterer and Flesher... he seems very popular in this small town and when I go in for a bit of a sticky beak he tells me he makes his own Haggis which is very popular! Several of the Scottish blokes with us have it regularly when we eat out! The funniest thing I saw in a Supermarket was a Vegetarian Haggis... now come on... Haggis is made up of Pig heart, liver and all the other pig offal bulked up with oats and stuffed into the skin of part of that pig so how could they possibly make a Vegetarian one???
The whole hotel shakes when a truck goes by... but the best thing is a plaque in the front which says Dickens, Thackery, Chopin and The Beatles slept here but the Beatles are on top of the list!! Very funny!
There are buskers on every corner and they are all wearing kilts and blowing on bagpipes! The tourists are going off taking photos... One of our group said that the English invented the Bagpipes as a joke but Scotland have never got it!
After lunch in the beautiful gardens I caught another train to Stirling where the boys were going to end up after their day of buses... the British trains are so luxurious and so smooth and the country side is just like you see in postcards, soft and beautiful.
The Royal Hotel at Stirling where we are staying is very old with one of those old lifts that only fit one person and one bag, you have to close both doors before you can move... the stairs got a good workout... the floors creak all the time and it smells of furniture polish and smoke! Our room overlooks the street and a Butcher who tells us he is a Poulterer and Flesher... he seems very popular in this small town and when I go in for a bit of a sticky beak he tells me he makes his own Haggis which is very popular! Several of the Scottish blokes with us have it regularly when we eat out! The funniest thing I saw in a Supermarket was a Vegetarian Haggis... now come on... Haggis is made up of Pig heart, liver and all the other pig offal bulked up with oats and stuffed into the skin of part of that pig so how could they possibly make a Vegetarian one???
The whole hotel shakes when a truck goes by... but the best thing is a plaque in the front which says Dickens, Thackery, Chopin and The Beatles slept here but the Beatles are on top of the list!! Very funny!
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