CCMB in Scotland Day 2

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We arrived in Stirling around 8pm and the hostel we are staying is located at the center of Stirling city. Thus we had to drive around the city to find the best car park.

Tips: Most of the road side car park in the UK is free to park after 6pm until 8am tomorrow morning, sometimes 10am.

We then cooked our dinner as the hostel provided us the kitchen all to ourselves. Then we went to bed early.

DAY 2

The first thing to do is to make sure we get off before the car park is not free anymore. Hence we had no time to waste and we headed to Stirling Castle which is located one mile from the hostel. This time, we are not paying for the entry as we knew that castles are all the same.

Because we find that castles are not interesting anymore, so we decided to do some jumping.

Although some of you might feel disgusted with the fact that we did the jumping, I don't mind at all, because we had fun.

We then headed towards the William Wallace monument. How many of you knows William Wallace? None of you? Okay, what about Braveheart (Mel Gibson)? Does that rings a bell? William Wallace was one of the hero of Scotland because he fought against English in past...i don't know which century. And, if you play Age of Empires II, you will remember that there is one character in the game called William Wallace.


The monument is situated on top of a hill. At the bottom, you can find a statue of William Wallace. Unfortunately, I don't have the photo with me, it's with Shahril. Afterward, we drove up north heading towards Aberdeen. But then, we changed our plan as we felt that we would not manage to reach Aberdeen then go straight to Aviemore on the same day. Thus we made our stop somewhere in St. Andrews in late afternoon. There is a university called University St. Andrews which most of their buildings are located near the seaside.

This aquarium was just closed when we arrive there.

Tengku and his dream car



Me at University of St. Andrews

We are Rabbani (UK style) taken from Affzan's FB

After enjoying the sunlight of St. Andrews, we then headed towards our next hostel in Aviemore.

Before that....

I think I better stop here as I am running out idea. I don't know what to write. Alright peeps, stay tune!

... to be continued

CCMB - Southampton to Scotland

Assalamualaikum and hello all =)

Sorry for not updating this blog for almost a month and a half. This is due to commitments I have with two group projects - MDP and GDP.

Glad MDP is finishing.

Let's go holiday!

This time I would like to share our Cuti-cuti Musim Bunga (Spring Holidays). It was in 2008 where 12 of us decided to drive to Scotland for five days and four nights holiday. That is 8 hours non-stop driving. But we did not actually drove non-stop, I remember we stopped thrice - two times for general stop and another one we stopped because we had two wait for our friend to re-unite with us (they were lost). It was almost 12 hours of driving. Honestly, none of us ever drove that long back in Malaysia.

So... It was us: Shahril, Tengku, Najib, Salam, Hazlee, Affzan, Ikhwan, Me, Syauqi, Huzaifah, Hafidzuddin and another one is........ err.... Ahas! oops...sorry..it was loong time ago so I can't remember much.

Transport: own car (make sure you have UK license and insurance)

Accommodation: youth hostels

Total Cost: GBP 250 roughly

Activities: visit museums and scary places, sight seeing - beach, city etc, ski and snowboarding, cruise in Loch Ness, praying and laughing, get scolded by some Scottish hostel caretaker

Equipments required: cooking utensils and titanic rice pot, Garmin, SLR camera, digital camera, video camera, good actors and posers

Scotland is a land full of castles. Castles are everywhere and each city has their own castles. Our first stop in Scotland was Edinburgh Castle in the City of Edinburgh. It was a huge castle and it also accommodates many other museums in its compound; for example the National War Museum is located inside the Castle. So you pay once, and you'll get to see many things.

click here to find out more information: http://www.edinburghcastle.gov.uk


There are just too many museums around there, and some of us are just too bored to get around. oh yeah, some of us met the Scottish!



Najib was the person in charge for activities and he booked for us a tour to underground of City of Edinburgh. Najib said it is good and looks scary. So everyone of us was very excited and even arrived early and the starting point for the tour. The tour guide was Gary and made the tour sounded soo scary during briefing.

Mercat tour here : http://www.mercattours.com/home.asp

Above pic shows how the underground vault looks like. Basically this vault spreads all the way under the city of Edinburgh and it was said that, the current city of Edinburgh was built on top of a city - hence the underground vault.

Warning: Don't go for the Mercat Tours. It was not fun at all. In fact I felt funny about it. None of us were paying attention to Gary. Only those locals could understand what he was blabbering about thus we didn't even felt any goosebumps. None at all.

In late afternoon, we headed towards Stirling city, north of Edinburgh. There we stayed at Willy Wallace Hostel. url: http://www.willywallacehostel.com/


to be continued....