Hey guys! Sorry about the lack of blog posts lately- we have had a South African visitor, Danile, over to stay with us for the entirety of this week so time for blogging has been limited to say the least!
As it's currently 11pm on a Thursday and we spent the whole day in Edinburgh, this is going to be a mainly picture orientated post and I'll probably upload it tomorrow morning, so don't be surprised it this is dated for the 10th, not the 9th!
We have a group of SA students at the school just now as part of our exchange link with their school in Douglas, SA. This was the pupils first visit to Scotland so we took them all to see the capital, along with the Advanced Higher Modern Studies class.
After arriving, we headed straight up the hill to the castle and although they complained, the view from the top was spectacular and the castle itself was amazing.
We then went in and conducted our own little tour around the castle, taking in the Crown Jewels, Mons Meg (big ass canon) and some rather creepy Robert the Bruce statues.
After a thorough nosey around the castle, we took a very slow walk back down the hill- to say that the SA's took things with a 'Hakuna Matata' attitude is an understatement. However this did allow us to discover parts of the city I hadn't noticed in my many visits- such as this crazy mirror built into a wall.
We then got to watch a really interesting debate about the possibility of lowering the voting age in the country to 16, followed by a lovely tour around the Parliament building- which is one of my favourite places to go, and we finished with a talk with our two local MSPs. We EVEN got the chance to see both the current First Minister, Alex Salmond, and the likely next First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. For a politics buff like myself, that is practically celeb spotting.
I had a lovely day and Edinburgh remains one of my favourite places.
Until next time,
Until next time,
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