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Geocaching in Scotland

After I came back to Glasgow on the 27th I did a lot of geocaching with my girlfriend. We experienced Glasgow and Edinburgh by walking from cache to cache. It was a great way of showing her the city.

Today I searched for some caches and more or less I found that by accident: http://www.csft.org.uk/out_and_about/geocaching
It’s so great that these people make the forrest open for geocaching! In germany some owners of forrest remove caches if you don’t got the permission to place it there before. I love the policy of “Central Scotland Forest Trust”. That is the way to go if you want to make the nature an attractive competitor to pc games, televison etc.

And to make you happy, here are some photographs I took while we were on our geocaching tours:

the river Clyde next to Glasgow with fog
nosy squirrel in botanic garden of Glasgow
cow sculpture at cowgate in Edinburgh
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Visiting more than scotland

This time I want to show you some pictures from Stirling and London.

The weather was not the best when we were going to Stirling, but It was a nice day nevertheless. It was quite stressfull to me because my sickness got worse the days before. But the day after this trip I felt better again. Maybe it was a good idea to go out of Glasgow to get a breath of fresh air.

Panoramic view down from stirling castle with wallace monument in the center
The UK has many memorial for their soldiers. This one is for those who lost their lives in the south african war 1899 to 1902.
Statue of William Wallace at the monument
Panoramic view down from the Wallace Monument - you can see the castle somewhere in the fog
Robert the Bruce - King of Scots (1306-1329) at the battlefields next to stirling.

Some days later I went to London. It was just a short trip, so I haven’t seen much, but refresht my memories of London and I have got some new impressions by geocaching. Londons city-caches are really difficult to find. I just found 4 out of 10. Maybe I just had bad luck or I just got used to the easy Glasgow-caches too much.

German bars are everywhere 😉
somewhere at the southbank of the thames
Did you know George Peabody?
London Eye, Parliament and the Clock Tower by night.
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what’s up next

There are just 4 weeks left until I come back to germany for christmas. But in the meantime there is a lot up:

Tickets for the Pub Crawl and the trips to Blair Atholl and Edinburgh

So there are already 3 of 4 left weekends with plans for trips. Maybe we will use the only left weekend for a squash competition, since a lot of people I know here are playing squash. I will report about that later 😉

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Visiting Scotland

After some people called for pictures of my trips around scotland, here they are finally 😉

The first batch of photos were taken in the first days I’ve been to Glasgow. In this time we visited the City a little bit.

Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre (SECC) and an old crane of a wharf

Glasgow Botanic Garden
Glasgow Science Centre

The next few pictures are from our trip to loch lomond and (another trip) to ben lomond:

Some information about loch lomond and ben lomond could be found here:

(german) Loch Lomond Ben Lomond

(english) Loch Lomond Ben Lomond

Loch Lomond
View from south end of loch lomond
View from westbank of loch lomond
Ben Lomond and the rising sun
scotish cows on the way up to ben lomond
Loch Lomond with some of it's islands
panoramic view of loch lomond
This was the group of students who were going to ben lomond with me.

Some more photographs will follow in the next days. It’s too much for one blog post 😉