Going on holiday

Ironic that after going so long without a post, I then post two in rapid-fire succession.  Oh, well.  That's how I do.  I just wanted to let you know that I have plans for this weekend!  Here it is: early early tomorrow morning I'll be taking a bus to Balloch, West Dunbartonshire and spending the day hiking the bonny, bonny banks of Loch Lomond.  I'll spend the night in a hostel there and then Saturday morning take another bus up to Inveraray.  Inveraray Castle, home of the Duke of Argyll and seat of Clan Campbell, is described as fairytale-like, and its grounds are supposed to be equally lovely.  So Saturday and Sunday will be spent checking out all of that, and Monday I'll bus back to Edinburgh, hopefully in time for my afternoon class.  It's going to be lovely.

Unfortunately I missed a couple of chances to travel with people.  Literally twenty minutes after I booked all of my tickets, a couple of the WashU people invited me to go on a highland day tour with them on Sunday.  Then when I informed my Canadian flatmate that I was leaving for the weekend and mentioned that she was welcome to come, she said she would like to go - unfortunately the time I'd booked my bus for didn't work for her.  It's a bummer - although solo venturing is fun, I'd really like to have travelling companions for once.  BUT the semester isn't even close to over.  It'll happen.

Side note, totally unrelated: I watched my very first James Bond movie last night!  I made an arbitrary decision to start at the very beginning, so I saw Dr. No, which I think was made in 1962.  As really old movies go, it was really not bad.  My flatmates, who ended up joining me, thought it was ridiculous, but I thought it was okay.  So now we have a date for Casino Royale.  (Side side note: "movie" is not a word, says British dictionary.  I think it wants it to be "film".  Okay, I saw my very first Bond film last night.  There we go.)