Last few sights in Scotland

This morning my friends and I got up extra early to make sure we could walk around the town of Oban before we left with the bus. It was freezing and very wet, but still walking along the ocean was such a great way to start our day. Since it was early Sunday morning, the streets were empty and nothing was open, so we truly had Oban's lovely seaside atmosphere all to ourselves.

Right across from our hostel - Jacob and I near the freeeeezing ocean!

Oban :)

Alexandra and I

Streets of Oban on an early rainy Sunday morning

If you look hard there's a rainbow :)

Nikk and I in front of the ocean right before getting on the  bus

Next stop: Loch Awe and a 13th century church in St. Conan's Kirk. We drove up to some place that looked like the middle of the forest and came upon a beautiful medieval church/castle sort of thing that was single-handedly built by one man. It looked onto Loch Awe, so basically more pretty bodies of water and foliage. And you can never have enough medieval cathedrals! 

Miriam and I in front of the cathedral

Foggy view of a castle!

One man built this...meaning that people in fact were more productive before facebook was created :)

Afterwards we drive through Rob Roy country and visited the famous Scottish hairy coos...they're like very furry, red-headed cattle, most famous of which is named Hamish. 

Hamish!

 

We kept driving, now southbound back towards Edinborgh to eventually get back on the train to London, and for lunch we were dropped off at the town of Callandar. It's a cute little town with plenty of yummy places to get typically British/Scottish food, and if you walk through the allies in between the buildings if the main road you come out onto this gorgeous, tranquil green space with beautiful views of the town, a lake, and some hills.

Main road in Callander

Alexandra and I in front of the lake behind the city

 Finally we arrived in the city of Stirling, but we didn't have enough time to actually go into Stirling so we did a quick (but very steep) hike up some hill and came upon an incredible view of the entire town. I wish we had enough time to visit the famous Stirling Castle...next time I guess!

cool sky :) don't know how my camera did that..

Stirling!

Part of the scenic road we hiked up

And then it came town to go back to London. :( This trip was so amazing...no blog or pictures could ever do it justice, you just have to see all the nature and little towns for yourselves in person! :)

Typical view from our bus....fields, cattle, and absolutely no people in sight

Halloween tomorrow! Still don't know what to dress up as. Tomorrow we also have advising sessions for signing up for Brandeis classes next week. And I have to finish a huge history essay and probably some sort of creative writing assignment my professor will give us tomorrow - all before I leave for PARIS on Thursday night! Let the middle-of-the-night homework sessions begin!

xoxo,

Sarah