We’ve made it to Glasgow and it is quite a bit different than Edinburgh. The bus ride here only took an hour and a half, so that wasn’t bad at all. However, we got semi-lost getting to the hostel…again – I’m pretty sure we have only made it to a handful of our hostels without any difficulty. There shouldn’t have been a problem getting to this one if the streets were labeled where you could see it from both directions and if the same street wasn’t two different names on either side. Anyway, several nice people helped us and we made it. Upon our arrival we found out that we had been upgraded! YAY! I’ve never been upgraded for anything before, who knew my first time would be in a hostel of all things. We were supposed to be in a room with like 8 or 10 beds but got a 4 bed private! So we have an extra bed, our own bathroom/shower and no need to lock anything up. We do have a faulty light fixture but all in all I think we can deal with it, haha.

We get free breakfast here again! Super fantastic. We basically just stuff ourselves and coast through the majority of the day. In our last hostel we made Nutella sandwiches for later in the day but we don’t particularly have a need for that here. 1) We are a bit sick of Nutella-like spreads, 2) We are nauseated by the thought of more bread…even though we still choke down toast in the morning (FREE) and 3) Holly and I have SO much food for our short time here. We went to Tesco the first night to get some food for dinner, all of us on a super low budget because we didn’t want to get more money out. I found a ‘family meal deal’ which turned out to be the best thing ever. For £5 we got a main dish, side dish and dessert for a family of 4, so naturally, we get two of them for 2 of us. Therefore, instead of having dinner for a family of 4 for two nights we have lunch/dinner for 2 of us for a day and a half… That’s a whole lotta food for cheap. Our main dishes consist of two different types of pasta that weigh 1.2kg each, the side dishes (one pasta and cous cous, the other garlic cheesy bread) were like 500-600g and the dessert (raspberry cheesecake) was 400g each. Again, let me specify…2 people.

Apart from our food adventures, Holly and I had a hair washing experience for the record books. Somehow she convinced (more like guilted) me to wash her hair in the sink with a bar of soap, I’m still not entirely sure why. But somehow we managed to make it like a hair salon – minus some class and added disfunctionality. What’s important is that it got done and she has clean hair…



We quickly discovered that there is not much to do in Glasgow, so we primarily walked around and tried to take pictures that would be worth an album on facebook. If you were worried that you will go hungry in Glasgow by lack of grocery and/or restaurants if you came here, don’t be – there is literally a grocery store every 5 minutes (walking) and a plethora of restaurants and cafes. If we didn’t already have the amount of food we did, I’m sure mass purchases of food would have occurred. All of us (not just me!) were struggling to stay awake, so we ended up going back to the hostel for a nap – after Holly and I consumed some cheesecake. 3-4 hours later we got up and went to make dinner. Tough life man.


Glasgow




Taking our picture in a reflective building...only after taking 5 did we realize that there might be people on the other side laughing hysterically.

We are headed to Dublin today! However, we have all day to bum around because our flight isn’t until 9pm. The bus to the airport shouldn’t take too long, so all should go well! This is our last Ryan Air flight and as Kayla pointed out last night…we will be checking into our last hostel. We will be checking into said hostel twice though – we are going to go stay with one of Kayla’s friend’s mom for a night. Woot!


Kayla officially proposing to Holly. Awwww.


Holly's excited!


The happy couple, haha. We thought it'd be fun to play with my camera settings.

Fun Fact: Glasgow is the industrial capital of Scotland, that's about all I know about Glasgow.