Today was the big travel day. I left QM around 8:30 a.m. and did not arrive to my final destination until 5 p.m. that afternoon. To get from London to Edinburgh required 5 different modes of transit (walking, underground, train, plane, and bus). First it was a short walk followed by a short tube ride to the train station. From there I caught a train to the Stansted Airport. At the airport, which included a speedy security (only in line about 10 minutes or so), I boarded my flight to Glasgow. After landing at Glasgow Prestwick Airport, I got another train into Glasgow Central station, from which I had to walk to catch another train from Glasgow Queen street station since there is no direct rail link between the two (think NYC's Penn Station and Grand Central).
Then it was a train to Edinburgh. The only problem was that I had booked my ticket to the wrong Edinburgh train station. I knew this ahead of time and found a bus route that travelled right by the station and my hostel. Only problem was that there was major roadwork ocurring outside the train station, which meant my bus was rerouted. The bus stop listed the temporary stops, but it still took me around half an hour to find one. Then after a short bus ride, I finally arrived at my hostel.
After checking in and unpacking a little, I headed out to the Elephant House for dinner. This is the very same coffee shop that J.K. Rowling wrote some of the early parts of Harry Potter. I sat in the back room, the same one where she would have sat looking out the large window with a great view of Edinburgh Castle. I unfortunatelly do not have a photo of the Castle from The Elephant House. Sadly, there was only one HP-themed item on the menu, a drink named "Fleur's Fantasy" (Hot Chocolate with Bailey's). I highly recommend it and their house salad.
After dinner I walked around a little bit before heading back to my hostel for a short break before heading out on the hostel's nightly pub crawl, which would also be my first pub crawl. I quit after 3 pubs since it had been a long day and I had another long day of sightseeing ahead of me:
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