The Younger Sisters' Five Week Journey Through Europe

Today we said goodbye to Peter and Scotland and headed for England. Tonight we were staying with another of Jen's friends from YWAM, Tim, in Leeds, England. On our way there we stopped at Buttermere a small village that is famous for its icecream. Buttermere is in the Lake District of England, a gorgeous drive over windy narrow roads with beautiful views. Peter took Jen to the airport in the morning to pick up our car rental. When she got back to Peter's apartment, she came in the door and said, "look out the window," when I did I saw a bright blueberry parked outside his apartment. Oh my goodness, that would be our car for the next 4 days, it was ridiculous looking, but what are you going to do. After we finished packing and loading up the blueberry, we got on the road. We had a longer drive today than usual, google map said close to 6 hours, partly because we were taking a detour through the Lake District of England. As we got closer to the border...

Today we traveled by train, from Glasgow to Edinburgh. By train they are about 45 min apart. However, getting to the train was a little adventure in itself. We had to take the train from Paisley (where Peter lives) to Glasgow and then walk from that train station to another train station to go to Edinburgh. Today was a miserably cold and rainy day, and on top of that we left our umbrella at the train stop in Paisley. So our walk in Glasgow we got a little wet. Thankfully, as we made our way from the first train station in Glasgow to the train station that would take us to Edinburgh we found a Starbucks. The light shinning down on the sign as we turned the corner was like a sign from God to come in out of the rain for a few min and warm up. That might have been a little dramatic but we were pretty miserable. With our Starbucks in hand we made it to the train and relaxed as we road through the Scottish countryside to Edinburgh. Edinburgh "Edinburgh combines medieval reli...