UK Vacation 2015 Day 3; Exploring Edinburgh!

Goooood Morning!

It is day 3 of our UK trip.
Today we are jumping on a train to Scotland!! Super excited!
The train left at 8 in the morning, which meant we had to get up at around 6-7am... Way too early. But I am a super worrywart, so I do not want to miss the train, meaning I would rather sit and wait, rather than having to run to make it. Yeah, I sound kinda boring.. x) But at least we made the train.

So much beautiful nature! Scotland is very similar to Norway, but that's not so much of a shocker since we have the same climate and everything. After a couple of hours on train, crossing the border and officially entering Scotland, we jumped on a bus towards our hotel. Let me tell you, taking the bus in Scotland with all of our baggage was not easy. We took up so much space, hahaha x) But we made it, and the hotel was amazing! We got a super fancy room with a kitchen and everything. Sadly we didn't have too much time to enjoy it. Next time!

After throwing our stuff into the hotel, and getting ourself cleaned up, we went out to explore the beautiful city of Edinburgh. And let me tell you; Stunning! The buildings are so gorgeous and look like they are filled with so much history.

We stayed in a walking distance to most of the stuff, so we took the time to go check out Edinburgh Castle. Such a beautiful and interesting place. I'll let the photos speak for themselves

So much history! I loved just walking around, taking it all in. After finishing our tour, we headed down closer to the sentrum looking for some food. Found some adorable little pigs. Funfact; pigs are my Chinese zodiac sign. So yeah, had to take a picture ^3^

This dude had incredible lungs! Like seriously, insanely strong lungs. Or he might just have learned a fancy pancy breathing technique letting him blow the bag for ages... What do I know. Still pretty impressive

LUNCH! :D

After eating we met up with a friend of my friend who was in town as well. Went for a couple of drinks before we headed back to the hotel to get som sleep before the next day. Because the next day we were heading to the festival! :D 

17th of May; How I Celebrated Norway's National Day!

Hi everyone!

Yesterday was May 17th; Norway's national day! :D
I did not have the time to blog that day what so ever. The day was packed with fun and national pride. I had so much fun! We walked a lot, ate a lot and drank beer with great people.

The day started with a champagne breakfast together with some friends. We popped the champagne bottle, ate pavlova and watched the children's parade in Oslo and the royal family waving at the people + celebrations from all around Norway on the TV.

When we finished eating and drinking, we made our way into town to walk in the main parade together with our history student association. The parade was filled with all sorts of student associations, local associations, marching bands and other groups of people. Even the Norwegian stormtroopers group walked in the parade. It was really cool!

Stormtroopers!!

After a lot of walking, cheering and dancing in the parade, we went to take some photos with our student association. Also got to take some group photos with my friends. After the photos were taken people kinda scattered all over the place. We decided, true to tradition, to go stuff our faces with ice-cream and hot dogs. Yum!

Next up we just wandered around a little, looking at all the people and stall with food. Ended up getting myself a slice of pizza since, since for some weird reason a hot dog and ice-cream did not satisfy my hunger.

Then we watched the russetog (parade full of russ). Quite nostalgic watching them, made me miss my time as a russ. After watching them jump and dance around through the streets, we made our way over to a pub to get a beer. And after finishing one beer, we headed over to eat a pizza (everyone was quite hungry after walking a lot that day).

russ^^

When the pizza had been devoured, we headed back to the pub to grab some more beer and catch up with more people. And then we went home.

I have to say, jumping into bed was pure heaven after all that walking! Fell asleep once my head hit my pillow.

This year was my first time celebrating our national day away from home, and it was quite weird, but it was nice. Since I had my friends with me, it was all good.

Hope this was interesting for you to read, and maybe you learned something new about our celebration of the national day.

Until next time.. <3

Norwegian winter scenery 2014

Heeey

So I guess you figured out what I'm gonna be posting today from the title, right? If you guessed pictures of the scenery in Norway around wintertime, you were right on point! Norway is famous for our nature, so I thought I'd share some of the photos I took when I was back home for Christmas.

It's really pretty there when it's not raining~ I think Christmas and summer are the most beautiful seasons in my hometown, mostly because the weather is kinda stable and manageable.

Bye Bye~