An American in Scotland


My name is Jada, I’m an American, and I’m going to Scotland for six months. I’ll be studying at the University of Glasgow and hopefully living like any 20 year old Scottish college student would. But of course I’ll be American, not Scottish, and the culture shock is sure to be insane. So I’ve decided to document my insanity, starting from about a month and a half before I hop the pond until I return. I hope to share photos and snippets from my daily life with y’all. So this is going to be, starting around January first, a travel/photo/journal blog-contraption. Until then its most likely to be pre-planning blog which will focus on preparing to study abroad for six month and planning travel to several other country’s in Europe as well. Enjoy.

Questions?

19th June 2011

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Random

But there are three train stations in Edinburgh. Coming from Glasgow this is how you will encounter them:

  • Edinburgh Park
  • Edinburgh Haymarket
  • Edinburgh Waverley

Edinburgh Haymarket is usually just called ‘Haymarket’.

This can be confusing for non-natives. If you want to go to downtown Edinburgh, when the castle and Royal Mile is (you know the tourist area) then you want to go to the Edinburgh Waverley station. If you want to go to the airport then there is a bus link at Haymarket. I’m not sure what Park is for, the train rarely called there actually… So, now you know. 

Tagged: trainEdinburghEdinburgh WaverleyEdinburgh HaymarketEdinburgh Parkhow to get to the castle

  1. dogonaswing said: Edinburgh Park is out past the Gyle- it’s a business district (not really a park, sadly).
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