Please let us Glas-go

The next stop on our Topdeck tour of England and Scotland was Glasgow, which I can't say any of us were all that excited about.

It was only short drive there from Edinburgh in the morning, so we weren't able to check into the hotel for a while. We had the option of taking a drive out to a whiskey distillery for a tasting session, but after being on the hell-bus that was the Loch Ness tour the day before, Shereen and I just couldn't bear the thought of more driving. We opted to stay in the not-so-interesting city, which was only made enjoyable by the fact that two girls from our Topdeck who Shereen and I really liked we're staying behind as well. So Edwina, Vittoria, Shereen and I went and got burritos from a cute little Mexican place (that made me really miss Zambreros- my favourite Mexican in Perth), then continued to wander around the city halfheartedly taking in the "sights". We went and had afternoon tea and this tea house which was the number one thing to do in Glasgow on Tripadvisor, and if that place was number one I seriously had no interest in seeing numbers two and downwards. The most interesting part of the day was when Shereen bought a Harry Potter mask.

Shereen and I were leaving the tour the next day, but the rest of the group was continuing on to Ireland so it was a bit of a lackluster last night for us. Our tour leader Tim tried to get everyone to come out and give us a bit of a send off, but he convinced us all to go to this comedy club that featured some of the smaller acts of the Fringe. There were four acts, only one of which was any good, and because it went for quite a while it meant that our last night with the Topdeck crew was spent in a dark room where we weren't allowed I talk to each other. But Shereen and I were sitting with Eddie and Vittoria, who were definitely our favourites of the group, so we had a fun night anyway.

/Playing pool on our last night

The group left us the next morning and Shereen and I figured it was about time we try and sort out how to get to Liverpool, which was our next stop. We looked online to try and book a train, but every time I tried to book it the site would allow me to buy an all day ticket but the time slot would say no seats available. Then the information number was down so we decided not to risk it and just get the bus.

We had to go and get lunch before we caught the bus because it was going to be about a 6hr drive . We got to the platform just in time and waited.... And waited some more. Finally a bus came but it wasn't going to Manchester (which is where we had to go to change buses) and the attendant said we had missed it! Althought this was entirely possible because we had only just been on time, everyone else around us said they had been waiting for 45 minutes and it had definitely not come. So someone went to find out what was going on and luckily the bus was just late.

So after starting late we got into Manchester with about an hours wait for our next bus. There was nowhere to store our bags so we were forced to sit in the station rather than venture out to find dinner. Even worse was when we found out the next bus was delayed by an hour and a half, all of which we would be spending in this terrible station. While we were in the station some guy was being told he was banned from using that bus system ever again, but I didn't hear the reason why. He obviously didn't like that and started yelling abuse at the woman behind the counter including threats of rape and blowing up the station. Needless to say the police were called, and luckily he was so clearly just an idiotic troll that they didn't take him seriously, a bomb scare and shutting down of the station would have probably pushed me to my breaking point in the worst day of my trip so far. We hit traffic getting into Liverpool so even that leg took longer than it should have, but we finally arrived at 9:45pm after 9.5 hours of travelling.

We were only going to spend one day in Liverpool and we really needed to do washing after being on Topdeck, so we foolishly decided to do it that night instead of wasting any of our time there the next day. There was a queue in the laundry and it took us until 1am to finish because there was only one washer and one dryer in the hostel!

Anyway that was the worst day of the trip so far, I know it was a long post but reading about it could not have been as bad as experiencing it.

The next day was MUCH better! I will tell you all about our Liverpool adventures in my next post. Xx