M.I.A

I have been a bit missing in action lately, so first I must apologise, sorry bloggers and readers.

I went to Glenrothes for our annual Christmas dinner dance, the weather was horrible but we had an awesome time. Here are some pictures of our knee's up.

This last one makes me laugh so much. Anyway the job hasn't been going too bad, I got into trouble a couple of times but they just have to remember that i'm learning how to work in a new environment. I've never done any jobs that are in the least bit up-market or as a waitress, so anytime i'm not on the bar I get all confused.

Moving on anyway, I've been working away so that I can afford to get the hell out of here again, hopefully i'll be able to come back to the same job but I've also been thinking about going to Glasgow or the surrounding area to do my HND in travel and tourism. I feel I need to do it and get it done.

Today though I went on a lovely walk with my mum and the dog down the beach, now that were basically living on it. So welcome to my amazing beach :D

This week and Last weeks Travel Quote will be :

He who does not travel does not know the value of men

&

Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled."

Well have a good week everyone, not long until Christmas now.

Bye!

Pictures from my Newcastle weekend

With all my excitement of travelling throughout Europe I forgot to update on my Newcastle trip..

Checking into the Travellodge at Newcastle Quay, we got ready to go out and waited on the boys to finish watching the football game. Once the gladrags were on we couldn't wait to go and meet our camp family again.

We went to The Gate, which is a shopping center for drunk people before heading to the club TUPTUP just down the street. Many Pictures were taken :D

Enjoy

Nakemiin!

5 Countries in 5 days

So the trip was awsome to say the least!

We started off leaving Edinburgh Airport with the group and landed in Germany at Dusseldorf airport. We got on a coach and drove all the way down to near the Swiss border in a place called Herbolzheim. It took around 4 hours but after the flight, it surely wasn't comfy on the bum cheeks.

The next day we played in a massive tent in a place called Horgen just outside Zurich in Switzerland,

After a very rough night of artistic plastic cows being stolen and one of the guys nearly being arrested for stealing a splash of Jack Daniels from the bar ahaha, we left for Germany again.

During our many detours the bus driver managed to go through Austria instead of taking the quick route, but it meant I have technically now been to a country I hadn't been to before.

Altenburg, Germany was our next stop for 2 nights. It was a great hotel and the town looked a bit run down and post war, but sadly by this point I was suffering from a very bad cold and was annoying the crap out of everyone due to my unstoppable cough.

Our second gig in Zwickau was great! when we came back to the hotel, a little party was happening for the black forrest Fire service so we thought it would be a good idea to entertain them the Scottish way lol. The pipers were piping and the dancers were dancing, me in the other hand, I was standing in my comfy trousers chatting away to some old German Guy.

Bochum was our last gig night in a fantastically massive arena, the beer was being supplied by the hundreds, the food was very good, and we all drank every last beer after the show. I was absolutely knackered at this point, I had been mostly boozing it up like pipe bands do, but since I was ill, I couldn't go out on the last night like most people. I stayed up chatting to another guy who was on the trip,he chatted about how he was joining the police force. I was bloomin' freezing but it was a good chat while everyone went partying down by some karaoke bar.

We had done nearly a full round circle of Germany but we weren't flying back from Dusseldorf, no no no.... we were flying back from Schiphol in Amsterdam. I swore I would never step foot In that airport after my ridiculous lay overs coming back from America just 3 months ago.

Spending the day in Amsterdam was fun though, and before you ask I didn't go buy some mad space cakes or have a joint with my cup of tea, I work with Kids for goodness sake. However many others did not share my good sense, though it was hysterical to watch and I had a lot of fun sight seeing.

That night I flew back to Glasgow where my mum picked me up and I spent a few days in Aberfoyle relaxing with the family at my grans timeshare lodge. I start my new job on Monday so I need to make sure I get as much in as I can before I become the boring worker that saves all her money. You should always jump at the chance of travel, you'll never know where it might take you...

Travel Quote of the week has to be:

No one Realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

kveðja!

Adventure IS BACK ON!

Ok so I was disappointing that I couldn't join in on the adventure to France and Belgium with a load of friends from Manchester, but I got a call today from a friend who invited me to go to Germany and Switzerland leaving next Wednesday until Monday. Bring it on!

I will be doing a couple of Scottish style concerts over the memorial weekend for those who died in WW1 and WW2 and all the battles in between. I hope you all take a minute to remember them during this time.

After my weekend in Newcastle this weekend ill be off just days later to live it up in Western Europe. I hope you are all planning some sort of trip even if it's small, it will be worth it. During this time of year it really does give you a little lease of life and it makes you appreciate the world.

Travel quote of the week: The world is like a book, those who do not travel read only 1 page.

So guys hope you enjoy and see you next week when i have lots of nice pictures to share.

Do Widzenia!

Little trip changed :(

So my little trip to France was a no go, I suppose that's what I get for trying to plan something so last minute. Anyway I'm still going to Newcastle and hopefully visit a few people while i'm down there. I cant wait to see everyone and hear what plans they have, hope everything goes well... you know me, there will always be an issue.



Tyne Bridge in Newcastle

chao!

Little Adventures are soon to come..

So while in Edinburgh teaching some Highland Drumming to 12-18 year olds, I was called and offered a full time job :D

Bar work and paid fortnightly which means MONEY MONEY MONEY!

It doesn't start until the 19th of November but until then I do have some little adventures planned.

On the first weekend of November I have a camp reunion happening in Newcastle, everyones going to be doing there best to turn up which im over excited about!

These people were my family this summer and I thank them for everything they did.

The day after the weekend in Newcastle I have been invited to go to France, Velenciennes for some Armistice Day parades. I will find out tomorrow if they have enough accommodation for me to go, a little trip to France before I get my head down and work all winter shouldn't be too bad.

Im starting off with Tarded Food, the last 10 days ive been on this course teaching and one of the kids pointed it out. Its been our main source of entertainment ever since.

Quote of the week: There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign

Adios Guys xxx



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Misadventures of a Scottish Wanderer? You might be wondering what the name is all about, but its exactly what it says on the tin. I am a wanderer from Scotland who seems so get into various mishaps wherever I go. This blog will introduce you to the weird and wonderful stories of my travels.

I live in a seaside town on the south west coast of Scotland, 2 years ago the miserable Scottish weather made me flee to California to work with a summer camp exchange program. Many people my age have done the same and i'm sure they too have made some of the most amazing memories. 

The camp was for kids from inner city San Francisco, and afterwards I went on to do an awesome road trip with 3 other girls from camp who were all from England. We spent 4 nights in San Francisco, 2 nights in Yosemite National Park, 2 nights in Las Vegas, 2 nights at the Grand Canyon and originally the plan was 4 nights in LA.

                                                                           


Only I never travel well, something always happens, in this case it involved Hurricane Irene.

I found out the night before my early morning flight while sitting in a hostel computer room in Santa Monica, that due to weather issues my flight was cancelled. My Continental Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Glasgow was scheduled to have a fuel stop at Newark Liberty in New Jersey, this meant that while even one of my travelling companions managed to fly back to London Heathrow, I was stranded. The first thing I did was call my mum, told her what was going on and that I didn't really have any money to call around to find out what I should do, super mum came to the rescue and did the most incredible things to work out how to get me home.

The summer camp exchange program that I went with? No where to be seen, the London office was closed for a long weekend and the U.S office was closed. That was all ok because I knew there was an emergency number, only the lines weren't open either, some emergency line eh?

Luckily after 2 extra nights in a hostel in Santa Monica, some severe sunstroke after falling asleep on the beach a few days before and the second trip to LAX airport, I managed to get onto the reserve list that was 80 people long. My bag went to Glasgow when I didn't, but after 5 or 6 flights to Newark leaving without me on it, and a full 2 days after I was meant to, I was smuggled onto a spare seat on a flight. I say smuggled like it was illegal, but my name disappeared from the reserve list and when I went to go find out what was happening, the woman felt so bad for me that she escorted me to a seat on the plane and told me to pretend I was always booked on the flight. 6 hours later I was in New Jersey attempting to get to anywhere in the UK, No? so anywhere in Europe, "Copenhagen?" bit far... Yet the lovely Continental Airline worker attacked her computer and out popped a passenger cancellation for a flight to Glasgow the next day. "Will tomorrow do?" of course it did. Only until my flight over 30 hours away it was like a scene from The Terminal with Tom Hanks as I slept at a quiet Gate and washed in the public bathrooms. 4 days after my original flight, I arrived home 2 days after my bag.

It doesn't stop there however, I managed to make it home with no broken limbs until the day after I got home. I somehow managed to break my finger on my back door handle. Perfect!

Soo none of that put me off travelling at all...

In January a friend helped me make the decision to go back to America but to do a different camp, something new and somewhere different. After landing myself a job at a camp in NY state I was soo excited, then I found out my hours got cut in the pub I worked in the next day to a dramatic ZILCH. OH DEAR!

So I did what other silly people would do, I got myself a credit card to fund my little trip to across the pond. £1200 later I spent my summer looking after the most amazing kids and partying it up at the weekend. Afterwards I went on a Chinese bus tour with 3 other girls, again this time 2 from England and one from Scotland. We went to Philadelphia, Washington DC, Corning Glass Museum, Hershey World, Niagara Falls, Boston and back to the big apple where we spent our last few days shopping and enjoying the city. 

All went well this summer actually, not counting the major wasp sting reaction I had, the spider bite or the mind numbing 4 and 6 hour layovers in Schiphol Airport. 

Well I've been back from that trip now for 5 weeks exactly frantically searching for a job to pay for my next one lol, its just so boring being back but hopefully if I manage to land myself a full time job they let me have a career break and take me back after summer 2013 which will officially be my last year with the exchange program.

Getting old comes at a price, I need a grown up job by then so I can save up and get out of here for the last time :D

Well for just now, Chao!

Caz