Hello everyone well our first almost disaster of the trip has occurred, yes i say almost as my lieber Ralf using all his charm and persuasion managed to save the day Hooray!!
So heres the thing.... Purpose of the trip to attend the Tattoo, recieved our ticket package on Friday afternoon for the Saturday night performance, upon opening the package on Saturday prior to leaving for the Tattoo.... SURPRISE the tickets were for the Friday nights performance, Panic Quickly set in as Sandra ( I know this may come as a surprise to you all ) loses her lets say composure to be nice! After a few manic phone calls a lot of grovelling and some great hotel staff we managed to secure 4 tickets at the last minute for the 10.30 Saturday show including fireworks, around $250 poorer but happy to be going at least our travel agent will be getting a call once we return to Australia.
Ok onto the show it was AMAZING everything I wanted it to be and the fireworks were a real highlight, I have tears in my eyes just thinking about it again, the highlight was a precision drumming performance by the Netherlands Naval Band it was awesome!!
Andreas ans Stephie were so proud whe German naval band came out in their Lederhousen and tinkled their little bells, Andreas assures me that Germany does have some sea to defend on its borders ( J3 can you please check on a map for me ) they danced rang their little bells blew huge highland horns and dis a woodchopping demonstration?? some Navy eh? still Andreas was very proud.
Edinburgh is amazing a wonderful vibrant and beautiful city it has lived up to and exceeded all my expectations, the festival atmosphere is amazing and never fails to deliver a smile to my heart.
Today we are picking up our hire car and travelling to Stirling Castle, Rosslyn Chapel and the Willaim Wallace ( Braveheart ) Monument, then we drop Andreas and Stephanie back to the Airport and we are on our own navigating our way across Britain!
Love to you all, a very relieved and happy Sandra XXXXXXXX
Hey Gang!
ReplyDeleteOur little hearts skipped a beat when you rang this morning - we soooo weren't expecting that at all! But wonderful problem solving and an even better outcome - you got the best of it ! Perfect. I bet that the photo's are awesome and the atmosphere sounds incredible! I know that Edinburgh is one of the places where Alex would consider working for a longer period of time. We just adored it.
Have a ball at Stirling Castle. The drive isn't long - but it is wonderful scenery and we were constantly stopping for photo's and just to admire the views.
Stirling was one of our first castles that we had navigated ourselves too. Obviously we did the Queens Scottish Castle there next to Arthurs seat and it was beautiful. Stirling though is very austere. It has the echoing corridors and flagstones and just touching the walls and hunching to go through the doorways was something just amazing. You can get some awesome photo's from the slits in the walls where they would shoot arrows.
The cemetery outside the grounds in the township is just incredible. WE wandered and found inscriptions right back to the 13th century. The artwork of incredible headstones though with wonderful celtic inscriptions was just wonderful.
Have an awesome day - it is just ever so wonderful.
Lots and heaps of love
The Girls
xxxxx
I had a tear in my eye just reading your experience but then I have been crying all day as to why half the footy tips didn't come through. Still do not know why?
ReplyDeleteAt least you got to the Tattoo and hopefully plenty of good photo's, enjoy driving around England, I think you are both very courageous.
Hear from you soon guys safe travels.
So glad you guys got to see the tattoo after all! The atmosphere looks amazing...would be so cool set in the castle grounds!!
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