Outdoor Lovers Do It On Foot

... according to the first line in a brochure I was reading about going on walks / hikes in Fort William. Sexy. I told Bridie I would write more blog while she went upstairs to get her camera and cable so I am sticking to that promise.
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Gross Things I Have Eaten Overseas

You'd think being vegetarian would limit the risk of eating really disgusting foods (e.g. haggis.. not that I can judge, maybe it's delicious). But no, don't worry I have still managed to digest several revolting items on my travels and so have decided to start a list.

#1 Coleslaw and cheese sandwich, containing at least a kilo of what looked like very very mature grated bright orange cheddar. I don’t think I can ever eat cheese again. At least not in a sandwich with coleslaw.

#2 Macaroni cheese pie. (Okay, so I did eat cheese again). This wasn’t that gross but seriously. It’s macaroni cheese. In a pie. And apparently in Scotland it’s just your common everyday frozen reheatable snack.

#3 Vomit pie. I am yet to find out what this is actually called, but it was like a big lump of fake cream in a pastry case, coated in caramel icing. And I ate it directly after the slaw cheese sandwich. Ew.

I’ll just randomly slot more in as they arise. Or not. I don't think anyone reads this anyway especially after my post about how fail I am at blog.

surprise! i DO exist

So. I kind of haven’t written in a while since I’ve been having way too much fun to blog. By which I mean I had no access to the internet. Here’s a place by place update on my activities of the past while:

London
Was quite horrible. I have come to the realisation that I actually hate the place. Sure, you could blame this on jetlag or the guy in our room who coughed and sniffed all night, or the fact that the state our dollar is in means that a coffee cost equivalent to $7AUD. But me, I say it is the fault of the city itself. To its credit though, we did see a squirrel in Hyde Park right after I said, “you know what would complete today? If we saw a squirrel”.

Edinburgh
100 times nicer than London. In fact, the 9 hour bus trip to Edinburgh was nicer than being in London. Anyhow, they have free walking tours there which are radsome. Also, the hostel we stayed in which I think was called Castle Rock was epic cool. Sorry I do not know what is the go with the words I am using. I think we went into at least a million tartan shops, and a tartan weaving mill where we saw the loom of fate. In reality though, we actually saw the stone of destiny. That one isn’t a joke. And I broke my watch while iceskating.

Loch Ness
Okay so, our first night in Drummnadrochit, which is at Loch Ness, (and when I say night I just mean after dark so it was probably like 3pm) we were in a supermarket stocking up on macaroni cheese pies and Scottish porage, when suddenly all the lights wet out. Everyone in the shop (there were three of us. Including us) freaked out, and some guy shouted “run!” Unable to move we watched in horror as a large dinosaur-looking creature squeezed its way through the automatic doors okay I cant be bothered keeping this story up. But everything to the word “Run!” was true. The next day we had to play hide and seek with the hostel owners kids. In what I think was an effort to end the game (we had exhausted the two possible hiding places that we could fit into) Bridie took out monopoly. Big mistake; apparently the 7 year old boy plays online and is awesome. Yeah.

Inverness
Is quite a nice city. We’re just hanging out in the hostel atm. I don’t know if that’s because we are lazy or because there is pretty much nothing to do here. I expect its a bit of both. I actually cant remember anything else about this trip apart from everything I’ve written above, so maybe I’ll read my diary and add some comments later.

lazeeeeeeeeee

I'm sorry, but I am WAY too lazy to write a blog. How could I have possibly thought this was a good idea? There is no way I will ever ever ever upload any photos or customise the random template I chose in any way. Also, I have very little to say. Ever. I already wrote like 6 emails today explaining what I've done, and I feel like if I write it again here those very same people I sent the emails to will be the only ones to read it and they'll be all "Wtf you are lame". That's right, wtf you are lame. So I'm sitting in a hostel in London. There is very loud music going on downstairs which is fair enough since it's only like 7:30pm and I could probably sleep through this music anyway it's so repetitive, but nevertheless it is driving me nuts. I assume I'm jetlagged although i never really knew what that meant, and since my body clock was already messed up by my only getting 4 hours sleep most nights and then an hour extra on every bus trip while I was in Australia, I'm not surprised that I'm feeling tired now. Highlights of today included: finally getting off the aeroplane; visiting the movieum; the magic of this super absorbent towel I got as a gift; falling asleep a minute ago while holding my laptop; the music just being turned up more than a notch.

What have I done?

Dear Diary,

Today I finally bit the bullet and started a blog, after weeks of trying to think of a better name than Hantastic Voyage. Basically it's named after the film "Fantastic Voyage" because it's about exactly the same thing except with an aeroplane instead of a submarine (shrunk to one micrometre in length) and Europe instead of the human body. And I'm leaving on Friday instead of in 1966.

Also, I was lookin' through my itunes and found a playlist of depressing goodbye songs that I must have made very late at night in procrastination from doing two essays that were due the next day. So if anyone is looking to wallow in sadness after I leave, I have just the music for you (all you have to do is change any lyrics about breakups or death or ginger spice quitting into ones about being in different countries):

Goodbye – Spice Girls
How Do I Live Without You – Leanne Rimes
Oh Very Young – Cat Stevens
The Tracks of My Tears – Smokey Robinson and The Miracles or Boys II Men
Lonely Lover – Shaggy
I Miss You – Darren Hayes
Let Love Lead the Way – Spice Girls
Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds
Heavy Heart – You Am I
Missing You – Backstreet Boys
Please Come Home for Christmas – Jon Bon Jovi (only acceptable version)

Let me know if you want me to make you a CD. No joke.

Peace out