Today we took an hour train ride from Glasgow to Edinburgh. The fair ended up being really cheap [thankfully] and we arrived in Edinburgh around 11. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, and its actually pronounced Edinboro. What I found really interesting is that supposedly, one of the founders/origin of the name, Pittsburgh, came from Scottish root, and it was actually meant to be pronounced like how Edinburgh is pronounced, "Pittsboro", but eventually got "Americanized" into just "Pittsburgh" Interesting little fun fact!
Anyways, our day in Edinburgh ended up being a little shorter than we expected, since we had to catch a train back to Glasgow at 4, in order to catch our train back to London at 5:30. But we were still able to fit in a touristy activity and rode around on a "hop-on-hop-off" bus that took us around the [small] city of Edinburgh, and its outskirts. Although we mostly stayed within the city scene, we were still able to catch glimpses of Scotland's countryside in parts of Edinburgh, as well as on the train ride! In fact, the train ride was the best part! I'm actually really happy we decided to take a train instead of a plane because we were able to see the beautiful rural hills and plains of Scotland and the UK! It got me even more excited for our trip to Ireland in a couple of weeks!
Final thoughts about Scotland: very green, lots of sheep, lots of bagpipes, and lots of kilts!! (and a not so "wee bit of whiskey") :)
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