Day 22 Road Trip to Edinburgh - Scotland

This morning we woke early to get ready for a day of driving. We packed our clothes and had breakfast, we had bacon and eggs on toast and leftover chicken from last night. We had a quick tidy up of the house and said goodbye to Gary and Katie as they were going straight back to Penkridge.      

We left the lovely cottage behind and started our journey to Edinburgh. We decided to go into Hawkshead  for some morning tea. We parked in the pay parking area and walked up to the cafe with the huge cakes that we had desperately wanted to try but had not had the chance. As we approached the cafe we saw a closed sign hanging on the door. Bummer!

After about 45min of driving, we got onto the M6 and followed it until a right turn onto the border of Scotland! Everybody was over excited.... Maybe a little too over excited so we had to have a short toilet stop at Langholm. On the road again we decided to set Gertie to the Glenkinchie distillery.

At the distillery mum paid for a look in the museum and a tasting for Nathan and dad. In the museum there was all the information you needed to know about making scotch and whiskey. Dad and Nathan did there tasting and had a chat to the man at the bar and then we were driving again on the last leg to our destination. Edinburgh.

Once we got the keys we tried to make our way to our hotel. We made the wrong turn a lot but we eventually made it. We had lunch at Betty's bar and then we ordered pizza from Luigi's. 

When the pizzas were ready we walked down and picked them up Luigi asked Nathan if he knew how to drive and he said yes so Luigi handed him his car keys and said " you go take my car drop the pizza off and bring car back" it was even more funny when he said it in his Italian accent. We went to sleep that night wondering what lies ahead.

highlights- Luigi at the pizza place

Written by 

Kyle :)