Our flight to Edinburgh was on Saturday morning.. at 6:25! We flew with RyanAir, and they like to fly really early in the morning or really late at night, so Rose and I sucked it up and chose the earlier flight... most likely because it was cheaper than any other flight.
Waking up so early was brutal, of course, and we noticed some kids in our apartment complex still partying at 4 in the morning. In fact, when we left for the taxi at 4, our Spanish roommates were just getting back from a party.
Getting through security and everything went well, and we had an hour to spare at the gates. There were so many people on our plane! Rose and I found out that RyanAir isn't the fanciest airplane service, and we could pick our own seats on the airplane. The flight was less than an hour so we arrived in Edinburgh a little before 7:30.
We also found out that Scotland's currency is pounds, as well as Northern Ireland and England.
The exchange rate of dollars to pounds is horrible! If you want 40 pounds, you'd pay $25. The rate is 1.6, but we just rounded up when we saw priced things. We figured if an item costs X pounds, it would be double that in dollars.
We did go into McDonald's the next day and found out they do have a pounds menu!
After we got some money at the airport, we paid for our bus tickets (6 pounds for roundtrip) and made our way into the city.
After walking around the city later that day, I noticed Edinburgh isn't that big. There is a population of about 486,000 people. The main road we walked on a lot is Princes Street. Shopping stores are packed all along one side of the road; the other side faces West Prince Street Gardens.
We had all day to walk around the city, but before that we dropped our bags off at our hostel, the Caledonian Backpackers, which is where I will pick up on tomorrow's post.
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