Back in Scotland

So back in Edinburgh again after my trip to Spain. Currently working and waiting for my 3 week trip through 4 countries in Europe.  

So like all good things my travelling experience has been officially scheduled to come to a close on August 9th. 

On this day I will be flying from Glasgow Scotland to Halifax Canada then Toronto and from there to the great province of Saskatchewan. 

The decision of coming home was an easy and hard decision at the same time. 

I knew when leaving I had to make sure that I had seen everything in Europe that I wanted to see. And after my 3 week trip I will have seen everything on my bucket list for Europe. 

Plus I have to be out of my flat August 1st, and I have a lot going on in August back home in Canada (wedding, birthdays, reunions, etc.) So the fact that I will be homeless and that I have seen all that I wanted to in Europe I felt as if it was a good time to be heading home. 

Thus leading to my decision to come home. I will have done 6 months of travelling and having the opportunity to see 10 counties along the way. 

I'm still not sure what I was looking for when deciding to move to the United Kingdom, however I can say I found what I was looking for. I understand that literally probably made no sense but it's the best way I can explain it. 

I knew I wanted to travel and experience the UK, see how people lived on the other side of the pond and it's safe to say I love Saskatchewan and being a prairie girl. 

When moving here I never intended to even go outside of the UK, but after realizing how close and cheap it is to travel through Europe when your actually in Europe, I decided to take advantage of the opportunity I had in front of me. 

I have met so many people along the way and have them all on Facebook. Somewhat keep in touch with a lot of them aswell. It's nice because they are from all corners of the world: Vancouver, Montreal, Georgia America, Sydney Australia, Edinburgh Scotland, London England, Romania, Madrid Spain, Poland and a lot more. 

Which is a great thing because if I ever want to travel to any of those places in the future I have friends in those countries that could possibly be my tour guide or I have a place to stay when travelling there! 

I'm very happy with my 6 month adventure, at first I was a little upset because I intended on ending it after 9-10 months and I'm only going to have done 6. However I also didn't intend on leaving the UK. And by just leaving the UK I got to see 7 other countries! 

I'm not coming home because I'm homesick or because I'm "over travelling" I'm coming home because it's time, I have seen everything in Europe that was on my bucket list and I'm ready to come home. 

Just because I'm coming home doesn't mean I'm done travelling by any means. I really want to do a missions trip in Africa one day. Aswell I would love to go to some places in South Africa. Not to mention I would really love to see some of my own country! 

Seeing the Queen of England right outside Buckingham Palace~ Februray 2015 

Stonehenge ~ England ~ March 2015 

Castle ruins in Scotland ~ April 2015 

Coast of Scotland beside Port Logan ~ April 2015 

Carrick Rede Rope Bridge ~ Ireland ~ April 2015 

London, Scotland and Ireland trip with Dad and Mom ~ March-April 2015 

Giants Causeway ~ Ireland ~ April 2015 

Amsterdam Netherlands ~ May 2015 

Eiffel Tower on my 20th birthday ~ June 2nd 2015 

Arc De Triomphe ~ June 2015 

Paris trip ~ June 2015 

Madrid bull fighting ring ~ June 2015 

Barcelona national musesum ~ June 2015 

My Spain experience!

Wow what a crazy 5 days it's been! In that time I saw 2 major cities in Spain, hoped on 3 planes, ate lots of new kinds of food, burned like a lobster and had a great overall experience! 

I would say Barcelona was my favorite city! A lot more people speak English there, there are Palm trees everywhere, it's a lot more tropical than Madrid was and I'm such a sucker for the sea/ocean and there's was amazing! 

I had a great time in both cities, probably won't ever come back. Who knows if the oppurtunity presented itself maybe, anything is possible. However I most likely can never see myself back in that country. Kind of like a been there done that feeling now. Now places like Paris and Amsterdam I would go back to in a heartbeat!

My hostel experience was like any other hostel I have been in. The flat was a little interesting though. In the sketchiest neighborhood, good thing my bedroom door locked though! 

In the end I'm happy I went and got to experience Spain. Because like I said there is a very good chance I will never be back! 

Barcelona day 4 continued!

So today was my last day in Barcelona and I was doing the city bus tour! As mentioned in the previous post I am breaking up the 2 days due to more than 180 photos.. Ya I'm a little crazy sometimes with the camera. 

So after route one was done it had taken me about 4 hours, the second route wasn't as long, but the heat was really starting to get to me sitting on the open top of the bus. So not even half way through the 2nd route I moved to the bottom to sit in the air conditioning. 

I stopped off at the football stadium, it's the biggest in all of Europe and seats more than 100 thousand! Other than that route 2 mostly consisted of beaches, and the sea. 

After the bus tour I went back to the flat to rest for a bit, I had been in the sun for more than 8 straight hours so I needed some shade. 

Then I went to the beach to swim for a bit. After that just back to the flat to pack up and catch my plane in the morning. 

All the past trophy's 

Pano view of the stadium 

Teams locker room 

Chapel for coaches and players 

Control room at the top of the stadium 

What the tour busses look like 

Cass Batillo ~ department store 

Canadian flag flying proudly in the centre of Barcelona! 

Hotel Regina! (As it reads at the top) 

La nova mar Bella beach! One of the 6 beaches they have in Barcelona! 

Forum 

Museum Bleau

Sagrada Familia

Recinte Modernista de Sant Pau