My mother died this summer after a long battle with cancer and one of her requests was that we send some of her ashes back to her sister in Scotland.
However, I came up with a better idea.
I quit my job (ends next week) so I find myself with some time on my hands and one of my mother’s fondest wishes was to take me over to England and Scotland. Obviously now that’s impossible but I thought that perhaps I would be able to do the next best thing which would be to take her over!
So, in about 3 weeks (Mid October) I’m planning on flying over there, ideally I’m going to land in London and make my way North to Dingwall (by Inverness) where my aunt lives.
What can you do?
I need somewhere to stay in London for a couple of days while I see the sights. I’m hoping that someone can (ideally) hook me up with a couch for 3 or 4 nights or that someone can at least point me in the direction of cheap accomodations for my stay.
So if anyone on that side of the pond can help out I would very much appreciate it. Thanks in advance for taking a read and if you can help out either post back here or shoot me a PM.
London is VERY expensive for doing the whole touristy thing. Bring lots of money. Lots.
Scotland, not so expensive. Edinburgh is awesome. Rail is expensive so if your planning on going by train - book well in advance. Same for coach. You may as well fly from London to Scotland anyway imo. Cheaper and quicker - unless you want to make a trip of the journey and catch a couple English cities on the way.
[quote]Chewie wrote:
AdamC wrote:
Chewie wrote:
supermick wrote:
Chewie wrote:
Have you seen the movie “Hostel”?
Just be careful. Sorry about your mother.
Are you Geographically impaired? Or just Thick?
Slovakia is connected To London and Scotland? Hmmmmm - explain?
To the OP - hope everything is working out for you.
WTF?
It isn’t the location, but the concept.
Besides the movie is inspired by things that happened in Thailand.
Bollox
Afraid not.
This is from wiki:
“Hostel (2005) is Eli Roth’s second feature film as a writer and director. The movie is rated ‘R’ for brutal scenes of torture and violence, strong sexual content, language, and drug use. Due to the graphic nature of this film, its showing has been restricted in certain countries, primarily those with strict censorship policies. The film was billed as “inspired by true events”; Eli Roth claimed to have read about poverty stricken individuals in Thailand who would sell “members of their family to organized crime, then American and European businessmen would pay $10,000 to walk in a room and shoot them in the head.”[1] The sequel to Hostel, Hostel: Part II, was released on June 8, 2007.”
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Bloody hell that’s grim. I would say it’s probably an urban myth though.
Well, we’ll see what happens. Worst case I sleep in a hostel, not really a bad thing. I just like staying with locals whenever possible because you get to see cooler stuff.