The March is still cold in Scotland.

The excellent Valentine present from my fiancé, trip to Edinburgh started Friday, the 6^th of March. The airport is very close the city centre, so we quite quickly found our very cosy „Dene guest house”. It was late and cold, much better to stay in nice warm place than sightseeing. The diner in Scottish restaurant „The Room in the town” was great option to taste regional food in very nice atmosphere. The late evening we desperately wanted to go to some real pub, no tourists, only Scots!

The city centre was definitely not an option. The waitress in the pub directed us to some place that was not so easy to find, somewhere on darker side of new town . We entered very crowded pub, people mostly at their forties. I felt really as a foreigner there, but after a while we found very nice companion there – Dave. Drinking beer and whisky we were discussing political problems of Europe :) Me and Pawel, we were both surprised of the Dave's knowledge about Poland and other central, and especially east Europe countries. We were talking a lot about history of our countries, about relation between them. It was really nice time there. Before midnight a girl came and she said to us that she is from South Africa, and she had asked taxi driver to bring her to the place with no tourists, to see real Scottish pub, and are we Scots? So later we were talking also about Africa, drink even more...

We spent whole Saturday visiting the Old Town, the Castle makes of course the biggest impression. It is situated on the huge rock, and there is only one side of the rock that is easy to reach the fortress. There is a main road to the castle on this side. On both sides there are old big houses, with lot of pubs and shops with souvenirs, I think that scarf, blankets with Scottish pattern and of course whiskey are most popular. People from whole the world work there, but definitely not Scots. I was using polish in many places in Edinburgh. We were attending free tour, three hours of walking through the Old Town, listening the stories about the capital of Scotland in heavy rain, wind and hail. Then we went to the castle, the view from there is amazing - Victorian city, then mountains and the see behind them. We spent evening at hostel, eating haggis and drinking hot tee and coffee, watching wicked link and some English tv serials ... with fever.

The idea for Sunday, trip by bus to Loch Ness, and mountains. The weather was not so bad this time, the guide occurs to be charming old man, who knew how to entertain us. He was driving , talking, showing us his homeland, talking about Highlanders for 12 hours.

I made of course many pictures. We came back to Poznan on Monday morning.