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Day One - Thursday 23rd December 2004

London to Edinburgh

Presents from home arrived just in time!!!
Off to the airport and "everyone was in a good mood"
The flight to Edinburgh Scotland which "was pretty rough"
Trip to the hostel
Met a couple of the girls who were on the same tour

NOTE - there are 2 thumbnail images on this page

I arrived at work bags packed with winter woollies but unfortunately no presents!!
I will admit to being slightly depressed about Christmas - not only without my family with without a Christmas card to open!

BUT … after an anxious wait of nearly three weeks the presents arrived on the morning of my departure!

Christmas gifts - arrived!!!

CLICK HERE to see the "hand-made card from my Mum"
and
CLICK HERE to see the presents sent from Cairns

I had presents - it just wouldn’t have been Christmas without a hand-made card from my Mum!

Anyway, I was happy and packed the presents in my backpack ready for my White (hopefully) Christmas in the Scottish Highlands.

I left work early and headed straight to the Heathrow Airport.
It was packed but everyone was in a good mood - Christmas holidays and all that.

The flight was pretty rough and fourty minutes was plenty of time in the air.
There was lots of wind around Edinburgh and I was happy to land.

Edinburgh - The Hostel

CLICK HERE to read the details on the Hostel and it's facilities
and
CLICK HERE to see nine photos

I took the bus into the city and then a taxi to the hostel.

Edinburgh Castle

(two photos)
Tanya took these 'day/night' photos from in front of the Hostel

The view of the Castle at night was great and the hostel was so close to it.

I checked in and went to the dorm.
There were two girls in there having a chat - Melanie and Nicole.
It turned out that they were both on my Christmas tour starting in the morning.
Melanie had two friends arrive at the hostel and they were on the tour as well so I made some friends for the weekend.