Trip across this world as you pass by… – UK

The UK was the central solo section of my trip. The time I really got to know myself. You know, meet the real me. What’s going on in there. How you doing buddy? (I can neither confirm nor deny that I actually got this existential and weird).

I’ll be honest. I expected to be doing a lot more writing to accompany the photos… but the photos are so much more fun! Let me conclude with an excerpt from my notes entitled ‘The Tale of the Cereal’

I’ve been eating out a lot, how about I try and save a dime
Buy cereal, milk, bread and butter
Wake up the next morning
The AirBNB has no cutlery whatsoever and something that can only at a stretch be considered a bowl
Get out of my pyjama equivalent and get dressed to go get plastic cutlery (this is where I should have just given in)
No plastic cutlery on sale at either Sainsburys or Tesco. Obtain a plastic spork from Tesco’s takeaway section
Get back to the apartment and get ready to breakfast
Toast is toasting, cereal is opening
Cereal packet proceeds to explode across the entire apartment
Toaster starts smelling like an electrical fire. Might turn that off
Ahh barely toasted toast… with no knife to spread the butter… and no plate to serve it on…
Cereal is cleaned up and mostly in the barely-a-bowl
Ahhh, half a cup of cereal eaten with a plastic spork and two slices of dry white untoasted toast
Saved a dime, lost at least an hour.

Was I at fault for most of the minor annoyances of this story. Yes. Should an AirBNB have cutlery when it has a bench and a sink? Yes. The moral of this story? When you’re on annual leave, just suck it up go to the cafe and buy yourself a nice breakfast. I proceeded to do this for the rest of the trip.

Oh also, Edinburgh Uber drivers are fucking legends.

London

Elizabeth Tower in its traditional ‘Lachlan’s on holiday’ outfit
No one votes to leave Legoland
Even Brexit-land can get this right…
Daunt Books in Marylebone. Go there
I didn’t buy this… 😥
Real talk, someone taller than me probably couldn’t actually live in the AirBNB I had
“You’ve got to be crazy….”

Edinburgh

Traditional Scottish car park
The Scottish Parliament
No. I didn’t

Dunkeld to Inverness to Skye

My new companion
More ducks
Haggis! (in a cheap roll)
Culloden Battlefield
I appreciate this
Loch Ness
Eilean Donan Castle

Isle of Skye

Google thought I’d like them to HDR my photo. I feel a little dirty with how nice I think this looks
More haggis!
It’s a miracle I could see my phone to take the selfie
Such a strange thing to find on the other side of the world
The Skye BnB I stayed at
Return of the Attack of the HDR
The Quirang
Loch Coruisk