Off we go on another trip to the north, but this time to Scotland. We start with a pleasant evening flight to Edinburgh and take the bus to the city centre. The bus ride itself is great, as we manage to get the front seats on the top deck of the double-decker. We arrive in the centre at dusk, when the castle is already beautifully lit. We walk the remaining quarter of an hour to our hotel, the Apex City Hotel. After a minor key fiasco (our room door wouldn’t open, even after several replacement key cards), we go to a pub to start our trip the proper Scottish way. We drink a few pints from a local brewery (the pub’s next-door neighbour) and sample our way through two single malt whiskies. The atmosphere in the pub is terrific: A Scottish singer plays one traditional hit after another, sometimes on the banjo, sometimes on the ukulele or simply with drum and harmonica. The whole pub sings along, and by the end everyone is even on the dance floor, or rather in the aisle. That’s how to start a trip.
In short
The Scotland trip begins: An evening flight to Edinburgh and the best seats in the double-decker bus into town, where the illuminated castle already towers above everything. The first evening is properly Scottish: Local beer, two single malts and a pub full of live music where, by the end, everyone is dancing.
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