{"id":159,"date":"2007-08-26T11:28:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T23:28:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/08\/26\/from-england-to-scotland\/"},"modified":"2007-08-26T11:36:11","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T23:36:11","slug":"from-england-to-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/2007\/08\/26\/from-england-to-scotland\/","title":{"rendered":"From England to Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Something I don't think I've ever done before: three countries in one day. A reasonably good split also: about 8 hours in Ireland, 10 in England and then 6 in Scotland.<\/p>\n

If you order a taxi driver for 6.20am, so you can catch an 8am flight with plenty of time to check in, you really don't want him driving like an idiot and puncturing a tyre.\u00a0 Our Ryanair flight didn't arrive on time, thankfully, so we didn't have a deafening trumpet telling us that we had.\u00a0 After the first time, I'd prefer that the flights WERE delayed!<\/p>\n

<\/a>First stop of the day was at Ullswater<\/a>. We might have hired a sailboat if there was one available; there wasn't, so we played some Connect 4 and went for a walk around the lake. Lots of overhead activity also, in the form of both modern and old-fashioned planes!<\/p>\n

<\/a>We stopped at an information centre, that told us the best places to check out Hadrian's Wall<\/a>. This was a fortification across the entire width of England, designed to keep the nasty Celts out. We stopped at the Housesteads fort, which came with a guided tour in the form of a little show, featuring a Roman administrator and a Celtic lady entirely in character. Very well acted and worth seeing. The most well preserved building in the fort was, for some reason, the latrine.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The information centre also suggested somewhere to stay that sounded a bit more fun than Carlisle. We drove up to the village of Melrose<\/a>, proclaiming a new king of Scotland on the way by way of rock-climbing. The YHA was a fantastic old building, with really helpful staff that managed to do what we hadn't done all week in Dublin - book us a bed in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Dinner was at the local pub, and involved some great games of pool with a fantastic local character. This is what traveling is meant to be about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something I don't think I've ever done before: three countries in one day. A reasonably good split also: about 8 hours in Ireland, 10 in England and then 6 in Scotland. If you order a taxi driver for 6.20am, so you can catch an 8am flight with plenty of time to check in, you really […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[67],"tags":[58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/craig.dubculture.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}