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My time in Scotland part 1
Here is a video of my time in Scotland - Not including the highlands tour. I have still yet to do a video of the Highlands and also our Asia trip. Will have them done hopefully by the end of the week.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Goodbye United Kingdom
Well... where do I start??? As today is the last day I'm in the UK before heading off to India tonight I thought I had better update my blog for you all. Although I still have my finger in a cast I'm still managing to type ok. I hope by the time I get it off I can go back to normal touch typing. This is getting really annoying!
OK... Let's start with the weekend of the "Buckfast Challenge!" Buckfast is a tonic wine that is disgusting but it's a scottish thing so the flatmates and myself as well as a couple friends all decided to do a bottle each. It consisted of some good laughs, Candice won the challenge and we can see why the Scottish favor it so much as it gets you quite drunk. It was a good final way to see off our flat as the next day (Saturday) we got notice that the landlord had stuffed up the dates of when the other tenants move in which was Tuesday! So that meant, we had to be out by Monday! It was all one big cock up on the Landlords half!!
The Buckfast Challenge....
So luckily Candice and myself and Lulu found a place in Cupar which is just the next town over from St Andrews but still a inconvenience to get to move out of town. I could get lifts to work with a few work mates that live there so it was fine for me. Unfortunately Candice had to bus to St Andrews to get to work. But it all worked out fine. Nick has moved to his friends place in St Andrews.
Now for the last weekend in St Andrews. After finishing up my final day at work I got home and Candice and I pretty much bus'd straight back into St Andrews to catch up with a few mates as it was our final get together before we all depart. We just went bar hopping around St Andrews which ended up with a taxi home at about 11pm.
The next night we caught up with some more close scottish friends. This time it was a night in Cupar and we had to try another Scottish drink "MD 20/20" I don't really know what it is but it it's the size of a hip flask and it's really sweet. Apparently they drink it in under a minute usually to kick the night off, but I took the good part of an hour. Once again quality times with quality people. Here's a video of me getting them to say "Murder a burger".
The day after that I was feeling pretty sorry for myself and Candice and I had to head off to Edinburgh to stay there the night as our tour started early on Monday.
Monday - our tour of the Highlands and Isle of Skye kicked off. I saw a lot of amazing scenery. The highlands reminds me a lot of the South Island of New Zealand. We also went to Loch ness which is where we stayed for the two nights. The first night at the hostel there was a toga party so we all got dressed up in tartan toga's and danced around. The second day of the tour we went to the Isle of Skye and a nice village there for lunch. before making it back to the hostel in Fort Augustus - Loch Ness by 5.30 for dinner. The food at the hostel was amazing! The first night was the nicest chicken curry I had ever tasted and the next night was a lasagna which again I thought was nice. The 2nd night at the hostel there was a live musician playing. He would be playing the guitar tapping his "foot tambourine" and singing all at the same time which I found pretty cool.
Here are the photo's if you like http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=206511&id=573672028&l=96dfe65e23
The next day we made it back to Edinburgh doing the obvious tourist stops on the way but as the bus ride was 8 hours and it was raining I had the vibe that everyone just wanted to get back to Edinburgh. The tour was filled with young and old people so there was a great range of people and also met some people that I'll still keep in touch with. I didn't take many photo's but I video'd the whole lot so I'm going to make a "Scotland" video as soon as I get time. I'll be sure to post it up as soon as I do.
When we got back to Edinburgh Candice and I had to fly to London straight away but only to find that our plane was delayed. So by time we got to London it was about 1am. I had a great time in London over the few days. We went to some nice cafe's in Chelsea and also saw the football stadium. I also managed to do a new tech house mix if anyone wants it, it is available to download from my DJ page. I did exactly what I wanted do to which was catch up with some close mates before I leave them.
Now I need to get up and get ready to go for the flight. See you soon!
OK... Let's start with the weekend of the "Buckfast Challenge!" Buckfast is a tonic wine that is disgusting but it's a scottish thing so the flatmates and myself as well as a couple friends all decided to do a bottle each. It consisted of some good laughs, Candice won the challenge and we can see why the Scottish favor it so much as it gets you quite drunk. It was a good final way to see off our flat as the next day (Saturday) we got notice that the landlord had stuffed up the dates of when the other tenants move in which was Tuesday! So that meant, we had to be out by Monday! It was all one big cock up on the Landlords half!!
The Buckfast Challenge....
So luckily Candice and myself and Lulu found a place in Cupar which is just the next town over from St Andrews but still a inconvenience to get to move out of town. I could get lifts to work with a few work mates that live there so it was fine for me. Unfortunately Candice had to bus to St Andrews to get to work. But it all worked out fine. Nick has moved to his friends place in St Andrews.
Now for the last weekend in St Andrews. After finishing up my final day at work I got home and Candice and I pretty much bus'd straight back into St Andrews to catch up with a few mates as it was our final get together before we all depart. We just went bar hopping around St Andrews which ended up with a taxi home at about 11pm.
The next night we caught up with some more close scottish friends. This time it was a night in Cupar and we had to try another Scottish drink "MD 20/20" I don't really know what it is but it it's the size of a hip flask and it's really sweet. Apparently they drink it in under a minute usually to kick the night off, but I took the good part of an hour. Once again quality times with quality people. Here's a video of me getting them to say "Murder a burger".
The day after that I was feeling pretty sorry for myself and Candice and I had to head off to Edinburgh to stay there the night as our tour started early on Monday.
Monday - our tour of the Highlands and Isle of Skye kicked off. I saw a lot of amazing scenery. The highlands reminds me a lot of the South Island of New Zealand. We also went to Loch ness which is where we stayed for the two nights. The first night at the hostel there was a toga party so we all got dressed up in tartan toga's and danced around. The second day of the tour we went to the Isle of Skye and a nice village there for lunch. before making it back to the hostel in Fort Augustus - Loch Ness by 5.30 for dinner. The food at the hostel was amazing! The first night was the nicest chicken curry I had ever tasted and the next night was a lasagna which again I thought was nice. The 2nd night at the hostel there was a live musician playing. He would be playing the guitar tapping his "foot tambourine" and singing all at the same time which I found pretty cool.
Here are the photo's if you like http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=206511&id=573672028&l=96dfe65e23
The next day we made it back to Edinburgh doing the obvious tourist stops on the way but as the bus ride was 8 hours and it was raining I had the vibe that everyone just wanted to get back to Edinburgh. The tour was filled with young and old people so there was a great range of people and also met some people that I'll still keep in touch with. I didn't take many photo's but I video'd the whole lot so I'm going to make a "Scotland" video as soon as I get time. I'll be sure to post it up as soon as I do.
When we got back to Edinburgh Candice and I had to fly to London straight away but only to find that our plane was delayed. So by time we got to London it was about 1am. I had a great time in London over the few days. We went to some nice cafe's in Chelsea and also saw the football stadium. I also managed to do a new tech house mix if anyone wants it, it is available to download from my DJ page. I did exactly what I wanted do to which was catch up with some close mates before I leave them.
Now I need to get up and get ready to go for the flight. See you soon!
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Nearing the end of the UK chapter
Why hello! It's been over two weeks since my last blog and a lot has happened since then.
To start off with, two Sunday's ago I injured my finger. I have raptured the tendon in my finger and I can't play golf for the next 6-8 weeks. So I'll be in Melbourne by the time it heals. It's quite a shame as I had golf at Carnoustie and Glen Eagles lined up. It's also making it very difficult to type as quick as I usually do.
You will never guess how I did the incident. I was putting a chocolate wrapper under the couch (As I know it annoys Candice so I was doing it to wind her up) and I stubbed my finger against the foot of the couch. How is that for karma! haha.
So after going to work on Monday I decided to go to the doctors to find out what was wrong with my finger and they sent me straight to the hospital. I was there for 5 hours with 5 different doctors standing around assessing my finger they finally figured out that the tendon had come off the end of my finger and that is why there was no pain but the tip of the finger stayed bent and I couldn't straighten it. My finger is now in what they call a "mallet splint" which is like a brace which keeps the finger erect.
So that is the story of my finger... I can only laugh about it though.
Last weekend my work mate Gary took me out for a weekend in Glasgow. Straight after work on Friday we drove to Gary's dad's house who lives in Glasgow. It took 2 hours to get there from St Andrews. Once we met up with Gary's dad we went out and played golf at a new course there which is inspired by 9 of the best holes in Scotland. I only walked around the course because of my finger but it was a lovely evening for a walk. There were 2 holes from St Andrews there, a couple from Muirfield and Carnoustie and also Royal St George.
After we got home from golf and got ready we went down to the local pub to have dinner. I got the roast beef. It was so good to have a roast! It has been sooo long! Once we had a few drinks at the pub it was about 11pm so we went into Glasgow town. We went to this amazing place called "The Arches". They had a techno night called "Pressure" on and it was brilliant! I met some awesome people there. The place reminded me like a mixture of the St James and the Britomart combined. This finished up around 3am and Gary had got us tickets to the afterparty where is was something out of the movies where you tap on a tin shed door, they let you in and then close the door behind you and there is a big party inside. The ceiling was a parachute. Great tech house being played there.
We arrived back to Gary's dad's around 5.30am and I got a few hours sleep before waking up and helping his dad do the lawns and gardens before the whole Saturday night would kick off.
Saturday night we went around to Gary's friends Mark's place in Shawlands where we jammed out on the decks and had a few drinks before walking up to the local club. This place reminded me a lot of R'Toto's but 3 levels. Commercial music but good drunk music where you sing it at the top of your lungs.
After that we went back to Marks' for a mix and stayed there till about 6am. Got some sleep and then had breakfast at Gary's Dad's before facing our mission home.
This has been one of the best weekends I've had in Scotland! Big Thank you to Gary for taking me and having a boys weekend. The Arches is easily the best club in Scotland. It was really good to have a mix as well.
So our plans for after the UK has now changed. Candice and I are going to India for a day and then to Thailand - Bangkok for 3 days and finally Kuala Lumpa for 3 days before heading off to Melbourne. I can't believe my time here is nearly up. It has gone so fast! But I guess time flies when you're having fun. Only 6 weeks until I can play golf again. woo hoo.
To start off with, two Sunday's ago I injured my finger. I have raptured the tendon in my finger and I can't play golf for the next 6-8 weeks. So I'll be in Melbourne by the time it heals. It's quite a shame as I had golf at Carnoustie and Glen Eagles lined up. It's also making it very difficult to type as quick as I usually do.
You will never guess how I did the incident. I was putting a chocolate wrapper under the couch (As I know it annoys Candice so I was doing it to wind her up) and I stubbed my finger against the foot of the couch. How is that for karma! haha.
So after going to work on Monday I decided to go to the doctors to find out what was wrong with my finger and they sent me straight to the hospital. I was there for 5 hours with 5 different doctors standing around assessing my finger they finally figured out that the tendon had come off the end of my finger and that is why there was no pain but the tip of the finger stayed bent and I couldn't straighten it. My finger is now in what they call a "mallet splint" which is like a brace which keeps the finger erect.
So that is the story of my finger... I can only laugh about it though.
Last weekend my work mate Gary took me out for a weekend in Glasgow. Straight after work on Friday we drove to Gary's dad's house who lives in Glasgow. It took 2 hours to get there from St Andrews. Once we met up with Gary's dad we went out and played golf at a new course there which is inspired by 9 of the best holes in Scotland. I only walked around the course because of my finger but it was a lovely evening for a walk. There were 2 holes from St Andrews there, a couple from Muirfield and Carnoustie and also Royal St George.
After we got home from golf and got ready we went down to the local pub to have dinner. I got the roast beef. It was so good to have a roast! It has been sooo long! Once we had a few drinks at the pub it was about 11pm so we went into Glasgow town. We went to this amazing place called "The Arches". They had a techno night called "Pressure" on and it was brilliant! I met some awesome people there. The place reminded me like a mixture of the St James and the Britomart combined. This finished up around 3am and Gary had got us tickets to the afterparty where is was something out of the movies where you tap on a tin shed door, they let you in and then close the door behind you and there is a big party inside. The ceiling was a parachute. Great tech house being played there.
We arrived back to Gary's dad's around 5.30am and I got a few hours sleep before waking up and helping his dad do the lawns and gardens before the whole Saturday night would kick off.
Saturday night we went around to Gary's friends Mark's place in Shawlands where we jammed out on the decks and had a few drinks before walking up to the local club. This place reminded me a lot of R'Toto's but 3 levels. Commercial music but good drunk music where you sing it at the top of your lungs.
After that we went back to Marks' for a mix and stayed there till about 6am. Got some sleep and then had breakfast at Gary's Dad's before facing our mission home.
This has been one of the best weekends I've had in Scotland! Big Thank you to Gary for taking me and having a boys weekend. The Arches is easily the best club in Scotland. It was really good to have a mix as well.
So our plans for after the UK has now changed. Candice and I are going to India for a day and then to Thailand - Bangkok for 3 days and finally Kuala Lumpa for 3 days before heading off to Melbourne. I can't believe my time here is nearly up. It has gone so fast! But I guess time flies when you're having fun. Only 6 weeks until I can play golf again. woo hoo.
Sunday, August 15, 2010
My Birthday weekend...
Well it's been a few weeks since I last wrote a blog so my apologies...
Nick and myself in the pub when we first got to Edinburgh
Last weekend was my birthday and Nick (my flatmate) and my self kicked off Friday with a game of golf teeing off at 7am at the Castle course and which was a great way to kick off my birthday weekend. After the game of golf and some breakfast Nick, Lulu (Lewis), Candice and myself made our way to Edinburgh to meet up with Diego and Jess who were coming up from London. We met them at 12.30 at the Edinburgh train station and had a drink at the pub there before making our way around Edinburgh town showing them the sites and then spending the rest of the afternoon up the Edinburgh castle.
Diego and myself up the castle
We saw the crown jewels which were pretty cool but probably the best part of the castle was the underground prison cells which I found pretty interesting just how they kept the prisoners back in the day.
Front of the castle trying to photo bomb and didn't succeed
After checking out the castle we had a walk down the main road of the old town and had a look at the fringe shows which is a festival that is going on all month. It's just comedy shows as well as some live music acts etc. The city was the busiest I have seen it. There were people everywhere. Our original plans were to stay in the town for the night and go out clubbing etc but it was to hard to find a hostel because of the fringe festival. I went through 4 pages on google calling every hostel and all of them were booked out. The first train back was at 8am in the morning so I was not keen to do a all nighter to catch that train back. So we decided to head back to St Andrews.
One of the guys at performing at "The fringe" at Edinburgh. I've got a video of him which makes him look way cooler then in the photo
We arrived back in St Andrews around 8pm and just had a good time with some quality people. Saturday consisted of some games of football out in the park and some bantering around at home. We sent Diego and Jess down the round about 400m to get some food and we ended up having to go look for them as they got lost. What usually is about a 10 minute return walk ended up being about 40 minutes. So we thought we had better go look for them, and they had left there phones at home. But we found them :-)
Nick, Diego and myself have a birthday celebratory cigar... (I didn't get a birthday cake so cigar will have to do)
Sunday was a day where I showed Diego and Jess around St Andrews and also taking them to Anstrathur where the best fish n chip shop in the UK is. Funnily enough the cue for the shop was so long it would've taken about 1.5 hours to get served so we opted for the fish n chip shop about 100m down the road which is meant to be just as good. In my opinion it wasn't.
Diego and myself on the Links clubhouse rooftop
Diego, Jess and Candice infront of the R & A building
We also went to the golf course and I showed Diego and Jess the famous Swilcon burn and bridge as well as the Links club house where I stayed when I first arrived to Scotland. Following that we had a look at the cathedral ruins and the Lamma's market. The Lamma's market is the fair that is on once a year in St Andrews and the 2 main roads are closed off and rides and games fill the streets. I didn't even know about them until Friday which worked out perfect as it was something else to show my visitors.
Monday Diego and Jess left in the morning and Candice and I went back up to the Lamma's market and there were more rides up there and more stalls for food. We tried a Kangaroo burger as well as a Ostrich burger. They both taste similar but the meat is probably a bit firmer then steak. But I would try it again if the opportunity came up.
All in all my birthday weekend was great. My first birthday out of New Zealand and I have managed to find quality friends to spend it with as well as close friends coming up from London to spend it with me! Thanks heaps Diego and Jess! I video'd most of the weekend so I'll try put together something and upload so I'll be sure to let you know when I do.
This weekend has been the best weekend weather wise since I have arrived. Saturday I didn't have work so I met up with a work mate and we walked up to the town sat outside in a courtyard at a bar and had a cider and a burger then went down to the beach and had a couple beers down there.
Sunday I had work and the fog was so thick I couldn't see 50m infront of me. So work was interesting as I had to set the course up and I didn't know where I was pointing the tee markers too. That had all cleared up by 10am and during the weekends I finish work at 9.30am so I got home woke Candice up and we went on the Fife coastal walkway. It's a walkway that runs a long the coast of fife. If you really wanted you could walk all the way to Edinburgh. But we just walked for about 1.5 hours had some lunch on some rocks and head back to meet up with some friends at a Gala which was on just down the road.
Now I have just been grocery shopping and now I"m writing this blog to you.... So we are all up to date! Oh if you haven't heard already I have landed a job at Royal Melbourne which starts mid October. Royal Melbourne is easily the number 1 course in Australasia and ranked in the top 20 of the world! So I'm looking forward to that experience.
Till next time...
Nick and myself in the pub when we first got to Edinburgh
Last weekend was my birthday and Nick (my flatmate) and my self kicked off Friday with a game of golf teeing off at 7am at the Castle course and which was a great way to kick off my birthday weekend. After the game of golf and some breakfast Nick, Lulu (Lewis), Candice and myself made our way to Edinburgh to meet up with Diego and Jess who were coming up from London. We met them at 12.30 at the Edinburgh train station and had a drink at the pub there before making our way around Edinburgh town showing them the sites and then spending the rest of the afternoon up the Edinburgh castle.
Diego and myself up the castle
We saw the crown jewels which were pretty cool but probably the best part of the castle was the underground prison cells which I found pretty interesting just how they kept the prisoners back in the day.
Front of the castle trying to photo bomb and didn't succeed
After checking out the castle we had a walk down the main road of the old town and had a look at the fringe shows which is a festival that is going on all month. It's just comedy shows as well as some live music acts etc. The city was the busiest I have seen it. There were people everywhere. Our original plans were to stay in the town for the night and go out clubbing etc but it was to hard to find a hostel because of the fringe festival. I went through 4 pages on google calling every hostel and all of them were booked out. The first train back was at 8am in the morning so I was not keen to do a all nighter to catch that train back. So we decided to head back to St Andrews.
One of the guys at performing at "The fringe" at Edinburgh. I've got a video of him which makes him look way cooler then in the photo
We arrived back in St Andrews around 8pm and just had a good time with some quality people. Saturday consisted of some games of football out in the park and some bantering around at home. We sent Diego and Jess down the round about 400m to get some food and we ended up having to go look for them as they got lost. What usually is about a 10 minute return walk ended up being about 40 minutes. So we thought we had better go look for them, and they had left there phones at home. But we found them :-)
Nick, Diego and myself have a birthday celebratory cigar... (I didn't get a birthday cake so cigar will have to do)
Sunday was a day where I showed Diego and Jess around St Andrews and also taking them to Anstrathur where the best fish n chip shop in the UK is. Funnily enough the cue for the shop was so long it would've taken about 1.5 hours to get served so we opted for the fish n chip shop about 100m down the road which is meant to be just as good. In my opinion it wasn't.
Diego and myself on the Links clubhouse rooftop
Diego, Jess and Candice infront of the R & A building
We also went to the golf course and I showed Diego and Jess the famous Swilcon burn and bridge as well as the Links club house where I stayed when I first arrived to Scotland. Following that we had a look at the cathedral ruins and the Lamma's market. The Lamma's market is the fair that is on once a year in St Andrews and the 2 main roads are closed off and rides and games fill the streets. I didn't even know about them until Friday which worked out perfect as it was something else to show my visitors.
Monday Diego and Jess left in the morning and Candice and I went back up to the Lamma's market and there were more rides up there and more stalls for food. We tried a Kangaroo burger as well as a Ostrich burger. They both taste similar but the meat is probably a bit firmer then steak. But I would try it again if the opportunity came up.
All in all my birthday weekend was great. My first birthday out of New Zealand and I have managed to find quality friends to spend it with as well as close friends coming up from London to spend it with me! Thanks heaps Diego and Jess! I video'd most of the weekend so I'll try put together something and upload so I'll be sure to let you know when I do.
This weekend has been the best weekend weather wise since I have arrived. Saturday I didn't have work so I met up with a work mate and we walked up to the town sat outside in a courtyard at a bar and had a cider and a burger then went down to the beach and had a couple beers down there.
Sunday I had work and the fog was so thick I couldn't see 50m infront of me. So work was interesting as I had to set the course up and I didn't know where I was pointing the tee markers too. That had all cleared up by 10am and during the weekends I finish work at 9.30am so I got home woke Candice up and we went on the Fife coastal walkway. It's a walkway that runs a long the coast of fife. If you really wanted you could walk all the way to Edinburgh. But we just walked for about 1.5 hours had some lunch on some rocks and head back to meet up with some friends at a Gala which was on just down the road.
Now I have just been grocery shopping and now I"m writing this blog to you.... So we are all up to date! Oh if you haven't heard already I have landed a job at Royal Melbourne which starts mid October. Royal Melbourne is easily the number 1 course in Australasia and ranked in the top 20 of the world! So I'm looking forward to that experience.
Till next time...
Monday, July 26, 2010
My 1st hole in one!!!
Look at all the people taking photo's of us! - I got this off Getty images so there is still a watermark.
Guess what everyone! I got my first hole in one! Just today I played golf on one of the St Andrews courses and it came around to the 8th hole I punched a wedge and it trickled into the hole!
After some yelling and screaming my playing partner and friend Nick were jumping around like mad rabbits. Everyone on the course were looking at us. I'm going to frame the score card and have kept the ball I used. So that's my hole in one.
Anyway, last weekend was a really good one weather wise. On Saturday Candice and I decided to go for a drive and it took us to a wee little fruit farm just out side of Cupar. There we found it was pick your own strawberries and raspberries! By the time we went to go and pay for what we had picked I had already eaten all the strawberries. So that was a fun afternoon. After that we went around to a friends house for a BBQ. They don't have gas BBQ's over here. They are all coal. But the meat that was cooked still tasted just as good as any.
Besides golf and Candice finding a job as a receptionist that has pretty much been my week. It's my birthday in two weeks and we're going to Edinburgh and the Edinburgh festival is on too so I'm sure I'll have plenty to write about.
Candice and I are currently looking at a Contiki tour to do after my time in Scotland and then looks like I"m heading to Royal Melbourne if everything works out.
Anyway, hope you all have a good week!
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