Letter from Iona - 2
Hi Again All:
So, it looks like Wednesdays are now our regular day off. It's nice to have something to look forward to!!
Things here are going along quite nicely in this sleepy little island. We have two new roommates, one from Fife (Eastern Scotland) and the other is the sister of Agni from Lithuania. So we now have 4 housemates which is interesting with only 1 bathroom, but we seem to manage ok. Sadly, we had a death in the household this week as one of the girls broke the washing machine by putting in a huge duvet that was way to big for the machine to handle. So, Dan, being the man of the house, took the machine apart, found the broken belt and gave the sad news to our bosses' husband. Soon, we will have either a new belt or a new washing machine, but regardless, there will be no more washing of duvets!!
Let's see, what else.....I will pause and ponder....oh! Katie was attacked by a seagull on Sunday when we went outside to eat our lunch. She had made a beautiful stuffed roll (for us North American types, that's a sandwich!) with chips and a square, when out of the blue, this attack gull went on a kamikaze mission and dove for her sandwich, snatching it off of her plate before she'd even taken a bite! Thankfully nobody was injured in this event, but the seagull almost died when Dan threatened to take it out by throwing rocks at it. We didn't think that would go over well with the guests sitting there watching, but the staff would have been happy!:)
One story that should be told about Edinburgh was our haunted walk that we took. We were told by one of our Irish roommates at the hostel that it's fun to take a haunted walk in the dark. Because it doesn't get dark up here until 10 or 10:30 pm and we were going to do a lot of walking the next day, we chose to do this around 7:00 pm when it was still light. In the end it didn't matter because they took us into the underground streets of Edinburgh where it is basically pitch black anyway. There was an entire city that existed under there in the 1600's, and now they say it is haunted by this or that ghost. All of the underground part of the tour was lit only by the guide's flashlight. Katie's hand might have been turning a different shade of blue due to the squeezing that Dan was doing of it, but she was holding his pretty tight as well. We toured through different rooms, seeing witches sacred pentagrams and circles of stones until we reached the final room. (There were only 5 of us on the tour, by the way). Here, she split up the two guys and the three girls and put them on opposite sides of the room. Then she started talking about this poltergeist that lived in the room and after talking it up a lot, she turned off the light. The next thing we knew, somebody came running in from the hall, grabbed one of the girls from behind, scared the beejesus out of all of us (somebody screamed like a little girl, but I won't say who........Dan!) and ran out of the room. With that the tour was over and we headed back up to civilization. Dan had a good shot of straight whisky to calm his nerves and we took off for the hostel.
So, that's it for today. We hope that you're all doing well and we'll write again next week.
For now, so long!
So, it looks like Wednesdays are now our regular day off. It's nice to have something to look forward to!!
Things here are going along quite nicely in this sleepy little island. We have two new roommates, one from Fife (Eastern Scotland) and the other is the sister of Agni from Lithuania. So we now have 4 housemates which is interesting with only 1 bathroom, but we seem to manage ok. Sadly, we had a death in the household this week as one of the girls broke the washing machine by putting in a huge duvet that was way to big for the machine to handle. So, Dan, being the man of the house, took the machine apart, found the broken belt and gave the sad news to our bosses' husband. Soon, we will have either a new belt or a new washing machine, but regardless, there will be no more washing of duvets!!
Let's see, what else.....I will pause and ponder....oh! Katie was attacked by a seagull on Sunday when we went outside to eat our lunch. She had made a beautiful stuffed roll (for us North American types, that's a sandwich!) with chips and a square, when out of the blue, this attack gull went on a kamikaze mission and dove for her sandwich, snatching it off of her plate before she'd even taken a bite! Thankfully nobody was injured in this event, but the seagull almost died when Dan threatened to take it out by throwing rocks at it. We didn't think that would go over well with the guests sitting there watching, but the staff would have been happy!:)
One story that should be told about Edinburgh was our haunted walk that we took. We were told by one of our Irish roommates at the hostel that it's fun to take a haunted walk in the dark. Because it doesn't get dark up here until 10 or 10:30 pm and we were going to do a lot of walking the next day, we chose to do this around 7:00 pm when it was still light. In the end it didn't matter because they took us into the underground streets of Edinburgh where it is basically pitch black anyway. There was an entire city that existed under there in the 1600's, and now they say it is haunted by this or that ghost. All of the underground part of the tour was lit only by the guide's flashlight. Katie's hand might have been turning a different shade of blue due to the squeezing that Dan was doing of it, but she was holding his pretty tight as well. We toured through different rooms, seeing witches sacred pentagrams and circles of stones until we reached the final room. (There were only 5 of us on the tour, by the way). Here, she split up the two guys and the three girls and put them on opposite sides of the room. Then she started talking about this poltergeist that lived in the room and after talking it up a lot, she turned off the light. The next thing we knew, somebody came running in from the hall, grabbed one of the girls from behind, scared the beejesus out of all of us (somebody screamed like a little girl, but I won't say who........Dan!) and ran out of the room. With that the tour was over and we headed back up to civilization. Dan had a good shot of straight whisky to calm his nerves and we took off for the hostel.
So, that's it for today. We hope that you're all doing well and we'll write again next week.
For now, so long!
posted by Daniel Pergau | 6:59 a.m.
1 Comments:
Hahaha great stories, keep them coming!!
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