Farm day

The day after being castles out Gavin decided to take us to his nephew´s farm to have a ride on the buggy. Tom, Gavin´s grand nephew showed us how to drive it on the field. Everything was fine and everyone was doing great until Alfredo nearly crashed the buggy into a fence.

After that we had lunch in the garden with Tom and Tom´s dog Tam

Our next stop was Kinnoull Hill. In order to get to the top of the hill we had to do a long walk through the forest. By the time we arrived we were exhausted but it was worth it because the views were breathtaking.

then we headed to The Horn, a place where ice-cream is sold and where they cook the best bacon rolls in Britain. We must say that the ice-cream was delicious!

                           
Finally, we visited Gavin´s sister´s farm. There we met Lucy who went with us to Edinburgh and to the laser tag, we played with her puppy. Alfredo and Isabel jumped on the trampoline.
                            

"This was our resting day" 

Castled out

Dear followers, we are down to four and the adventure continues!

After two hours driving, two hundred miles and more than three hundred steeps we are back in Dundee.

The first castle we visited was Stirling´s. We first went to the big garden, there we had lunch surrounded by Italian students!


 Inside the castle we had the change to dress up as a character of that time! In the main garden there were two women playing an old fashioned game of tennis like in  Wimbledon

After that we went to the William Wallace monument which was the inspiration behind the Lord of the Rings tower. To see the views on the top of the tower we had to go up 246 step. Once we got down were really dizzy because the stairs were spiral!
                                

As the good fans of Outlander and Game of Thrones that we are, we headed to the Doune castle where some of the scenes were filmed. For example Winterfell´s main room or the Mackenzie´s castle.
                              

After a long and tiring trip we moved towards Dundee again.

Take your pick

Friday morning started like a normal day here in Dundee. The Spanish students met in the Tinsmith. In spite of having already arrived from the Highlands we had the stay until 2:30. Gavin and Kira planed a surprise for us. We were going to pick strawberries, blueberries, and all other berries..

Of course, all the fruit that we had collected was going to be for our families, host families! If we put them in our luggage back to Spain they would turn into juice.

After that we came back to Dundee and went to the VnA which is the most famous museum in Dundee. The building is incredible, very modern and cool but the expositions that were inside weren't so attractive.

When we finished our visit and came out the building it was raining , well pouring! We had to run to get to the uni in time. Once at the uni we did some blog work, like the one you are reading right now. This afternoon we are going to see watch Nadal´s match so we hope he wins!!

Alfredo and Nacho.

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The next morning we walked to a local cafe where we ate all kids of rolls (bacon, sausage, egg even black-pudding!)

Later on we went to Tesco to buy our pack- lunches, it was very funny watching everyone pick their three pounds meal. As soon as we finishes, Sandra, Isabel and Alfredo found out that they had passed the FCE exam.. Congratulations!

Our next stop was Loch Morlich ;the only loch in the UK with an actual beach! A group of us went canoeing in the loch whilst the other stayed at the beach and counted dogs, there so many!
                         

After having a great time at the beach, a huge storm began. It started to rain very heavily but it didnt stop us from going to the ski station to see the views.

                             

We ate our pack lunch on our way back to Dundee but Kira and Gavin had a surprise for us.. golfing!! Clara, Nacho and Cristina were experts, the rest.. not so much! The best without a doubt was Gavin, he looked like a professional.
                               

Once Gavin had dropped us at Dundee a few of us decided to have dinner at the tinsmith, even though we weren't hungry.

Sandra and Clara

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We met at 9:30 at the Tinsmith to drink our usuals (Coffee and hot chocolate). From there we started our trip to the Highlands on our mini bus ´La furgoneta´. It was a three out trip, nothing interesting happened, only that Judith had to go to the toilet every hour.

We stopped at a gas a station in Inverness and the first debate appeared ´Italian or Italian food for dinner´. Eventually the Italian won ( later on you´ll find out why this was the best choice)

We had lunch at the loch´s of Loch Ness, where we saw how the boats changed from one section of water to another.
                                   
Our next stop was Loch Ness and Urquhart Castle where we even managed to put our feet into the freezing water.
                                      

As we were tired we headed to the hostel in Aviemore, we had three rooms, one for the girls, one for the boys, and one for the bosses ( Gavin snored all night according to Kira). We were then given free time, some people took a nap, others had a shower and some had a drink on the hammock.
                                    

Now, the moment you have all been waiting for ; the Italian restaurant la Taverna. We had two options, one was to order from the menu and the other was a buffet. To summerize the night lets just say we ate our body weight in food.
The rest of the night was definitely interesting, we attempted to play cards, our sleep was interrupted because of a loud thump! It was the sound of Judith falling of the bed.. Then Sandra and Clara started to talk until everyone was woken up. Isabel was not happy!

                                                

To be continued...


Sandra and Clara

Visiting Edi

On Saturday morning the Spanish students went to Edinburgh. We were very lucky with the weather as it was fantastic!

Our first stop was the castle, however we didn't go inside. We were just outside enjoying the views and the sun as well as taking many photos. Another reason why we didn't go into the castle was that we were told that we would need an entire day to see all of it!

Afterwards, we went to a pulled pork roll shop called Oink which is very well known in Edinburgh. The traditional sauce to have with it is apple flavored however two of the students decided to have BBQ sauce.

At the end of that street we found a market where Nacho decided to buy a paella plate ironically! He said he enjoyed it a lot because he was missing Spanish food.


Later on we went to the cemetery where we saw Tom Riddel´s grave ( a famous Harry Potter character).



 Before heading to our next stop we saw the rocket-man wings sprayed on a wall, so we obviously had to take some photos.. Sandra however, was to short for the wings.

Our next stop was the famous doggy statue ( Hachiko). People say its good luck to touch his nose!
Even though Nacho wanted to visit to the Scottish Parliament , we couldn´t go because it was closed.

As a result we decided to go to the National Scottish Museum where we saw things such as traditional clothes and instruments from different cultures.

After walking past the cathedral and Hume´s statue we were given two free hours to go shopping. The majority of the students went to a souvenir shop and then went to another Harry Potter shop. The group divided again; Alfredo, Mangel and Clara attempted to visit a famous a Chihuahua cafe that ended up being closed. Meanwhile the rest of the girls and Nacho decided to go shopping at Princes Street.



We were all exhausted by the end but it was definitely worth it!

This was written by the mystery students who forgot to write their name.

Two girls and the north sea

On Monday afternoon we went to St Andrews, which is a city located 20 minutes away from Dundee.

To start off, we took a bus from Dundee´s station to St Andrews´ Station, surprisingly everything went okay, without any complications. Once we were there we headed to the information point where we got a map as well as some presents for our families!


Next, we went to the university and to be honest it took us more than we expected to find it. Whilst we were there we took a few photos and found a óoh willie!´

After that we decided to go and see the cathedral and the cemetery. We discovered that it´s not an actual cathedral, you can only see the ruins of the building. It was interesting to imagine how the cathedral looked in the past, it must have been huge..

Our next stop was the beach, on our way there something unexpected happened. Isabel and Alfredo, (the only witnesses) were walking past two men when they heard a loud noise. One of them, who must have had a stomach ache, farted extremely loudly.

Finally, at the beach only Judith and Isabel were brave enough to try the waters of the north sea! It turned out to be warmer than we thought.. Nevertheless, the difficult part wasn't going into the water, it was changing into out swimming costumes in the middle of the beach. After some time, a lot of screaming and help, we both ended up dry and clean.

All in all, it was a fun day filled with incredible memories. 

Judith and Isabel