After a nice breakfast at nine we had to pack our things. Always funny to think what needs to go where and what do we need on the ferry. At 11.00 we drove of in the direction of New Castle. The weather is getting worse by the minute. They said there will be no wind [...]
After a good night sleep we had a special breakfast. We could choose from yogurt with cereal, traditional Scottish breakfast, toast, scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and truffle oil or Scottish porridge. I took the Scottish breakfast and Klaas the eggs. We started to plan to go to Holy Island. But after breakfast I was [...]
8.00 We have breakfast in the Murrayfield hotel. Klaas has no appetite for a Scottish breakfast any more so he keeps it with toast and yogurt. We bump into a weird problem. What are we going to tell our friends and family, when and how? Do we keep it a secret until we got the rings. Oh no, that [...]
We are both awake early, so much planned today! At 8.00 we have breakfast, it tastes not so good as Monika’s Scottish breakfast. At 9.00 we get my wheelchair and walk to the nearest bus stop. Yesterday we were told to take bus 31, and he came streight away. For 3,5 pounds we got a daycard [...]
After a good night rest we slowly get up at 8.00. Again we get a lovely breakfast of Monika. This time I had hash browns, like potatoes cookies. The weather is horrible today, most of the time it rains. Klaas had the plan to walk through the woods but we decide to do some research [...]
A blog from Alba (Scotland), day 3! Next to me, Klaas will be writing as well (in italic text). The first full day in Scotland! We didn’t really make plans except for checking out the nearby surroundings. Sophie already predicted that Tuesday would be a relatively bad day for her, since she had to put up [...]
After 3. am I couldn’t sleep any more. My sleeping pill apparently didn’t help very much. At 6.15 I get dressed and walk to a window in a cafe. I knit and listen to an audiobook while watching the horizon. I can see lights and grey hills. In an hour its fully light, a beautiful coastline is [...]
A blog from Alba (Scotland)! Next to me, Klaas will be writing as well (in italic text). 22/04/2012 Roll on, roll off After several months of counting down, today’s D-Day! Or better yet, S(cotland)-day. At about 11 AM Sophie and I head off for about 100 miles from her home to the boat. The night [...]
Friday 30 March. After a hectic morning of making packages and packing my stuff for the citytrip, came Albert at 11.00 He invited me on a 2 day citytrip to Groningen, a big city in the north of the Netherlands. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groningen. Albert hasn’t been working for the last couple of weeks. He has a auto-immune illness since he [...]
3 November 2011 7.00, After a horrible night with nightmares and endless spasms, I was glad is was morning. I say goodbye to Phil, who has to go to work. While he and Boo are driving to the train station, I call my mom. I’m tired, in pain, upset and not sure how to survive the flight back. But it helps [...]
