Jan 8, 2013
Travelling through Scotland
For three weeks in August I have been traveling through Scotland with five friends, though not all could stay until the end. For the first week we stayed in Edinburgh to visit the Fringe Festival — a broad cultural event where the whole city gets occupied by artists, bands and comedians. Every last room is used to run shows and you see awesome costumes on the street each day. The event was very nice and the city is quite awesome.
Universities: We have been to the university in Edinburgh quite a few times and we have spent some days in Glasgow. I really like the look of the universities in those two cities, they totally remind me of the Harry Potter movies (see for yourself). Also I found Eduroam to be quite a valuable technology! Opposed to Ulm, the university in Edinburgh is distributed over the whole city — which also means as a student you have internet access via Eduroam in a lot of places.
After the week in Edinburgh we rented a small car and went on a roadtrip through Scotland. This turned out to be a really good decision. We would never ever have seen such a large part of the country without a car. So for two weeks we traveled through Scotland, visiting different isles and distilleries, doing a lot of wild camping and sometimes staying at various hostels. As we have neatly evaluated the perfect score for driving through the highlands is the Game of Thrones Theme.
At one point we left the car, took our tents and stuff with us and wandered into the nature. The nature! Beautiful, stunning nature! The law in Scotland in case of wild camping differs very much from Germany, in general you are allowed to camp wherever you want as long as you leave no trash, disturb nobody, don’t stay for months and don’t camp directly near a house.
Whisky. I already liked Whisky before travelling Scotland, but man, after those three weeks I am _so_ into Whisky. For me the best Whisky this year was the Lagavulin, 16 year old, Single Malt from the beautiful Isle of Islay. During our Scotland trip we have been to different distilleries, Lagavulin and Laphroaig amongst others.
The three weeks are filled with nice memories and the photos above only give a small glimpse on this time.
