Bonnie Scotland - Tour Planning

Beautiful city of Glasgow, with your streets so neat and clean,
Your stately mansions, and beautiful Green!
Likewise your beautiful bridges across the river Clyde,
And on your bonnie banks I would like to reside.

Isn't he great? I love William McGonagall. The rest of this gem can be found here and is a prime example of William Topaz McGonagall's fine art. We're currently once more planning our journey. I have talked to the scary people at the hostel (Skyewalker, hehe), and we have managed to book rooms. Whee! Now all that we need is to sort out the question whether to take the coach ticket or the train ticket. Both have advantages and disadvantages, and it's not really possible to decide.

We're currently in the Music Department, which we have all for ourselves. Students who wish to practice in here after hours (or surf on the net) can go and fetch a key from the Main Gate and stay as long as they like ("Mind, the key's gotta be back by tomorrow, gels!"). This is cool as well as slightly scary. There is no one in the place apart from us, although there were ghostly piano tunes coming from downstairs a while ago, so maybe there is someone after all.

Our route for the next days:

• Saturday: From Glasgow to Loch Ness
• Sunday: From Loch Ness to Rogart
• Monday: Hiking in Rogart
• Tuesday: From Rogart to Skye
• Wednesday: Hiking on Skye
• Thursday: From Skye to Glenfinnan
• Friday: Back home from Glenfinnan.

We have the timetables for all the routes, we have booked the hostels, so everything ought to work out alright. I hope it does! The route looks great and although we do not manage to see Inverness or Aberdeen we do see a good deal of Scottish countryside and I am looking forward immensely to that.
Especially to Skye. Ever since I first heard the Skye Boat Song when I saw the end credits of a programme on Skye on telly I have been in love with this island, I have no idea why. I was delighted when I found R. L. Stevenson’s version of the Skye Boat Song later on. 

( Sing Me A Song Of A Lad That Is Gone... )

I love Stevenson’s poetry, and although I was never quite able to like his novels, his poetry has been a much-cherished part of my teenagerhood. He is such a great poet, although what I miss in his poetry is, well, Scots. But then, not everybody can be like Hugh McDiarmaid. 
His poetry is absolutely amazing, albeit absolutely unintelligible in parts, because he writes in his Lallans.

( Example: his probably most famous poem,  )

I do hope the weather will be on our side next week... 

Ooh, something I am looking forward to immensely is travelling by Mail Coach. Some of the remote areas on the islands and in the Highlands are only accessible by Mail Coach, which are rather cheap and very slow. Whee, what an adventure!

It is ridiculous how much I am looking forward to that.

No, I'm not a Sue.

I was lured over to another HP RPGing site by a very im-por-tant user from the first of those sites I wasted my time on who is even more im-por-tant there. Blegh. Apparently, there are less Sues there than on the first one. And it is true, there are indeed fewer people who would qualify as Sues, but that is only due to the fact that there are fewer people around in the first place.

This is what I found while browsing around, the profile of someone who said somewhere that she does not like Sues and likes only good RPGing. I tossed in a few paragraphs because it made it easier for me to read, the original version of her profile did not have any. 

( Celeste Silverdrop )

Naaaah, that is not a Sue. That is a normal RPGer. Whose parents die... twice. Ah, well...