The best Scottish weekend ever

Since my last post, we've been up to all sorts of shenanigans. We met up with the lads again (Hamish and Steve for those in the dark, who we met in Perth on their elective) in their home city of Glasgow. Glasgow is world famous for its music scene with the likes of Franz Ferdinand and Belle and Sebastian hailing from this fair city.

We caught the train there on Friday evening after another 'hard' day at the hospital in Edinburgh. It was a bit of a slow train ride - they go at about 60-70 kph, which is really slow compared to Perth trains. The journey took about 1.5hrs, which was ok.

We met Hamish at the train station, and caught up with Andrea too, who is doing her elective in Glasgow! The amount of people doing their elective in the UK is staggering. Anyway, we were soon on our way to the tube station to catch a ride to Hamish's flat.
As you can see, the Glasgow tube system resembles a small race car set, with it's circular circuit.
Anyway. After hanging out at his place for a little bit, Steve and his Dad rocked up to take us back to their place for dinner. What a great bunch of people the Millars are. They picked us up from the city centre and then drove for 40 minutes back to their place, just so we could have dinner at their house! They're amazingly generous and the stuff they did for us this weekend is staggering. But I digress. After an amazing dinner, we all got ready for the Ceilidh (scottish dancing). Hamish, Steve and Duy* frocked up in their kilts and we were soon on our way!

Do you guys remember doing folk dancing at school? I remember, and I remember that it was horrible! But for some reason, it was actually really fun this time! Not to mention the most exercise I've had since we got here. We danced and danced and danced, and before we knew it, it was 1am and time to go home. Me, sa and Dino caught a taxi back to Steve's place and Duy and Jane remained at Hamish's flat.

Despite it being really late at night, we stayed up a bit later than we expected, just playing some music (which we've all missed so much since getting here) and singing songs. We introduced Steve to Spiderbait and Eskimo Joe, and in return he played some awesome folk music for us. It was about 3.30 before we hopped into bed. And that was just the end of the Friday! There was far more to come.

To be continued!

*PS Do you guys know about Duy's kilt? It's a 21st century kilt and cost only seveval hundred £. It looks good, huh? :)