{"id":1367,"date":"2010-07-12T20:48:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T20:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m3ntalcontraband.com\/?p=1367"},"modified":"2020-11-11T19:16:34","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T00:16:34","slug":"scotchland_2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/?p=1367","title":{"rendered":"scotchland 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"

man a month past<\/span> oh fuck nearly two months lol\u2026and i finally get around to posting about my trip to scotland. better late than never eh.\u00a0 and i even decided to give the flickr slideshow a whirl.\u00a0 i don\u2019t know why i never used it for my past trips.\u00a0 has it always been there?\u00a0 mysteries\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

the thoroughness of this recollection of the trip is suspect at best, given it\u2019s based purely on the photos taken.\u00a0 i didn\u2019t bother jotting notes of my trip, since most days were taken up with drinking.\u00a0 lots of drinking.\u00a0 fuck, so much drinking.\u00a0 i have a newfound fear of drinking with glaswegians now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GLASGOW<\/b>
i arrived wednesday morning.\u00a0 max came by the airport to pick me up\u2026him and patsy had been in scotland for a while already sorting out wedding details and concurrently having their work visas get fucked.\u00a0 that\u2019s another story tho\u2026and not even mine to tell.\u00a0 so moving on\u2026i dropped my luggage off at the hotel before we roamed glasgow.\u00a0 this was my fourth time in the uk, but my first time in scotland.\u00a0 the other three times were based solely in london (and a side trip to the english countryside).\u00a0 we grabbed lunch with one of max\u2019s friend who works for the company both max and i used to work for (it was a scottish firm). after lunch, we went for my kilt fitting.\u00a0 yea\u2026kilt fitting.\u00a0 word.\u00a0 i\u2019m in scotland for a wedding, fuck yea i\u2019m wearing a kilt.\u00a0 a nice one at that.\u00a0 made of alot of wool\u2026in the mild\/warm scottish spring weather.\u00a0 i would regret this later.\u00a0 but for now, i just wanted a kilt.\u00a0 we roamed some more afterwards, and most likely drank beer.\u00a0 it\u2019s sorta fuzzy.\u00a0 i was most likely groggy and jetlagged and inhaling coffee later in the evening.\u00a0 anyhoo\u2026moving onto the next day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EDINBURGH<\/b>
max and patsy had wedding details to sort out, so i took a daytrip out to edinburgh.\u00a0 there was something weird about glasgow as we were walking around the day before, and i figured it out when i got to edinburgh\u2026no asian tourists!\u00a0 actually, hardly any tourists at all in glasgow.\u00a0 in edinburgh tho\u2026yea, everywhere.\u00a0 definite tourist city\u2026and rightly so.\u00a0 it\u2019s very picturesque and touristy, with it\u2019s royal mile, closes, and of course, edinburgh castle.\u00a0 pretty place.\u00a0 tho one aspect let me down.\u00a0 i was hoping they\u2019d play up more of the haunted aspects of the castle\u2026which they didn\u2019t.\u00a0 at all.\u00a0 sad.\u00a0 i also decided to climb up arthur\u2019s seat<\/i>, this massive hill in holyrood park<\/i>.\u00a0 i don\u2019t know what i was thinking\u2026that was a bad idea.\u00a0 i have enough things in my life to remind me that i\u2019m out of shape\u2026i didn\u2019t need a vacation to remind me too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

i got back to glasgow in the evening and we went to a house party. more drinking ensued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

MAX AND PATSY\u2019S WEDDING<\/b>
we had lunch with max and patsy\u2019s family before the wedding in the afternoon.\u00a0 from there on out it was a brief wedding reception, then nonstop drinking til i don\u2019t know what time.\u00a0 3am?\u00a0 4am?\u00a0 i don\u2019t remember.\u00a0 and that wool kilt and ensemble?\u00a0 yea, that was painful.\u00a0 i stripped off the wool jacket shortly after the reception, but still had on the wool kilt and wool vest.\u00a0 blargh.\u00a0 on the flipside tho, the sporran was totally rockin\u2019.\u00a0 i kept my wallet and iphone in there.\u00a0 handy.\u00a0 it\u2019s like a purse\u2026but manlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

POST-WEDDING<\/b>
we had lunch with max\u2019s family the day after, and then roamed glasgow.\u00a0 we drank more at night.\u00a0 yea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AMSTERDAM<\/b>
i planned a nice one day layover in amsterdam before heading back to nyc.\u00a0 it\u2019d been years since i saw lysha and alice, and i thought it\u2019d be a nice place to (ironically) detox after scotland.\u00a0 lysha lived out in ijburg, and we just laid on the beach in front of her apartment for most of the day.\u00a0 we grabbed dinner in amsterdam, then roamed the canals for a bit.\u00a0 <3 amsterdam.\u00a0 i also really wanted to see the old neighborhood\u2026the amsterdam branch of the company i worked for was shuttered months prior, and the old animation space was turned into an underwear shop.\u00a0 how sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

REMAINDERS<\/b>
oh, i got my niece a mini-kilt and a clan pin from edinburgh, and my brother-in-law a bottle of bowmore whisky<\/a>.\u00a0 you\u2019re welcome dave!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

man a month past oh fuck nearly two months lol\u2026and i finally get around to posting about my trip to scotland. better late than never eh.\u00a0 and i even decided to give the flickr slideshow a whirl.\u00a0 i don\u2019t know why i never used it for my past trips.\u00a0 has it always been there?\u00a0 mysteries\u2026 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,19],"tags":[42,49,80,96,100],"class_list":["post-1367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-favorites","category-journal","category-photo-journal","category-travelogue","tag-edinburgh","tag-glasgow","tag-scotland","tag-travel","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1367"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8904,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1367\/revisions\/8904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/m3ntal.halleytsai.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}