A few friends and I decided to take a train (that is an old one, and is the "same" kind as the one used in the Harry Potter movies) that goes through the Highlands and has very pretty sights and all that.
We had to get up to Fort William (north of Glasgow, 3 hours by bus), to get on the Harry Potter train, and then that went to a little seaside town called Mallaig, stopped there for 2 hours, and headed back to Fort William.
It was sooo beautiful and a lot of fun! I'd definitely recommend it, even if you're not a fan of Harry Potter, because the views are spectacular and the train is still really cool (its basically just an older style train).
Picture time!
Yep! Thats coal in there! The real kind, too!
No, this is not at a museum. We actually took this train!
The Glenfinnan Viaduct - you know, like in Harry Potter
More of the viaduct
Mallaig!
Thought you guys might enjoy this little slice of Britishy-ness (this may or may not be obvious but 'take away' is their version of 'to go', and generally, things cost less if you get them for take away)
The ocean! (?) I'm pretty sure its at least some part of the ocean :-\
A little boat!
Glenfinnan Viaduct again - on the way back
Bye bye Hogwarts Express! :(
Fort William - we had a couple of hours to "kill" before our bus home left. We half wanted to kind of look around and half were just exhausted. We did look around some though!
Thats it for now!! Let me know what you think :)
That has got to be the most AWESOME train ever AND it's totally AWESOME that YOU actually got to ride on it!! I'm so glad that you're getting to have some AWESOME adventures in between ALLLL that "studying"!!Lol. HAVE FUN PRECIOUS!!
ReplyDeleteThat was incredible (I almost said it was awesome but Aunt Mare totally abused the word LOL)!!!! and totally worth the money. why did I enjoy looking at the Harry Potter train pictures MORE than Ireland? and that little town? Ft William? Beautiful!! oh yeah, and your first video...perfect "editing", I gasped and ducked LOL!
ReplyDeleteLol, Aunt Mare, I AM studying, but who wants to blog about that? And mom, the funny thing about that first video, is thats when we discovered that we don't like tunnels! See, we were in this little in between room so we could try to get good pictures out the window (our window wouldn't open), and at that tunnel, we discovered that when we go through tunnels, that room fills with smoke from the train, and its really hard to breathe! And then it happened again for like a minute! lol. But yeah, totally worth it for the great pics I got :)
ReplyDeleteWhat the heck.... I can't find any video and I know it would be AWESOME!?
ReplyDeletejane jane jane jane jane...there's a picture with this captions under it..."Glenfinnan Viaduct again - on the way back" followed by a picture of water/mountains/swampness and after that there are 2 videos (and they ARE awesome)
ReplyDeleteI finally seen the videos...guess I caouldn't play them on my phone BUT when I went on the computer THERE THEY WERE!! AWESOME!! lol
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