Day 41

A day in the highlands.

An early day at that, the bus left at 8:30am.

Unfortunately, when I woke up at around 6:45, I had a killer stomach ache.

Sharp pains, couldn't really eat... etc... I looked up appendicitis, luckily I didn't have that. It lasted pretty much the whole trip, the first half of the bus ride home was absolutely terrible for me. But it began to die off towards the end, and now I feel fine, so no worries!

Long story short, that sucked, but the non-suckyness of the highlands overpowered the suckyness of my stomach.

It was about a 4 hour bus ride up to the highlands, we stopped a few times in between to get out at rest stops and take a few pictures, one being of a highland cow (or hochland-rind in German) who is there for tourists... kinda weird... but most of the pictures on the way up there were out of the window. Which then contained a lot of reflections of people's heads and sometimes even myself in the pictures. Blah. So I decided not to post any of those, all of these pictures were taken around our final stop, the small town called Oban. When I say small town, I mean the picture with the colosseum in it contains 1/2 of the houses in Oban. Ok not that small, but you get the point. It was amazing, there were lochs (lakes) and castles everywhere - bordered by huge snow-topped mountains and endless amounts of christmas trees. Quite a sight. We got off the bus and walked over to the loch on the shore of Oban, spent some time there taking pictures, then headed off to the hike up to the colosseum, which is where I got the panoramic shot of the towns view. It was a very fun trip filled with endless sights to see. On the way home we stopped a few times, took a shot of two castles. The bus ride there and back I was sitting with my roommate, Rob, and two girls from Holland, Femy and Margaret, and two girls from Finland, Linda and Anna (I hope :/). That by itself was interesting because we spent the whole time talking about our cultures and experiences, very insightful! All in all, great trip! And for only 8 pounds. What a deal.