Keeping in touch from Scotland
Saturday, the 26th of January – Australia day. It becomes so much more important when you’re on the other side of the globe in sub-zero temperatures. At the gappies conference, all of the Aussies agreed to meet up at the ‘Walkabout’ – an Aussie bar in Edinburgh. So I got all dressed up in my […]
While in Edinburgh, we visited Edinburgh castle (see the post below). Outside was this guy, who dresses as William Wallace (anyone seen braveheart?) and will pose for pictures to collect money for charity. He’s already raised over a million pounds, and has even been on Getaway! I couldn’t pass up the opportunity!
The first night in Edinburgh (the friday night), we went on a pub crawl. Adjacent to the main street in Edinburgh (princes st), there is an old lane closed off to traffic, that is filled to the brim with old scottish bars. We walked along and went into whichever ones took our fancy!
This weekend was our exeat. It’s a long weekend where the boarders go home, meaning that us gappies are free for the weekend to go exploring. The four of us tripped to Edinburgh by train, and arrived at Waverly station at about 3pm on the friday. We walked to Princes st. (which is the main […]
During monday’s staff meeting, one of the teacher’s said that they were short of staff members for the skiing trip on Wednesday, and if anyone would like to volunteer, it would be greatly appreciated. So being the decent guy I am, I put up my hand. “I guess i’ll do it.” Ha ha. A day’s free skiing? Who wouldn’t? […]
This has been a crazy week. It started on Tuesday… Us four gappies were invited to a gappies conference organised by the scottish independent schools council thingy. We were kindly given the day off to go to this, so we travelled by train and arrived in Edinburgh at about 9:30am. Edinburgh is amazing! It was […]
I have been out searching for Postman Pat (and his black and white cat) recently. I found his glorious ‘royal mail’ van, but couldn’t manage to get a snap of Pat with it – he was just too quick. Watch this space for a pic of our favourite postman… I WILL FIND HIM!!! (Sorry Grill, […]
Hi all. THis week has been absolutely nuts. I will write all about it with heaps of pics shortly, but am just about to leave for edinburgh for the weekend. Went skiing, went to edinburgh, another burns night… I will update as soon as i get the chance!
Any harry Potter fans out there? I found the Whomping Willow! It’s a pretty uncanny resemblance don’t you think?
Heading out for games: Coming back from games: After it rains, parts of the school get ridiculously muddy after the kids run around on the grass. Great fun!
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