St. Andrews is an old and very beautiful seaside town, which is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle. Today, the town is known all over the world as the “home of golf” and of course the place, where Prince William studied in his early years. We walked around the town, took pictures and had some really nice hot chocolate with marshmallows and a delicious chocolate muffin in the famous Starbucks …yummy! (Starbucks is unfortunately not available in Graz - what a pity!)
The same day we finally arrived at the Meeting Point in Edinburgh (the capital of Scotland, where we would stay the next five days) to be fetched up by our host families. My best friend Steffi and I stayed together at a very nice family.
The next morning we took the bus to the city to participate on the Edinburgh walking tour. The first building we saw on this tour was the building, where Frédéric Chopin gave his final concert in the Hopetoun Rooms on 4th October 1848 and on the other side of the building there was the Mary Erskine School from 1871 – 1966. And another building we saw was the ‘Bute House’.The man with the kilt, our leader, told us also everything about the Edinburgh castle, about ‘Bobby’ – the famous little dog who slept on the grave of his owner John Grey and last but not least the cathedral.
A very famous and special building, which I really liked, was the Edinburgh Castle. The Edinburgh Castle is special because it is positioned on the Castle Rock. We could also walk around at our own to see the crown for instance. First it was – no surprise - rainy and foggy so that our view from the castle was not the best, but after having a guided-tour and visiting the different exhibitions inside the castle, the sun was shining but it was still kinda windy (as you can probably see on my hair :P ) so we had a breath-taking view.
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