18th Birthday Wording No Alcohol

Scotland

Finally here I am posting a little something about the trip the "parent" of 2010, "main" because I hope to make others, even if youngest (maybe a hit and run in Berlin).

Prior to disclose the route I want to thank Gian Marco Prazzoli and Lorenzo Magnani for the company and the laughter made together and express some opinion on a country which, in my opinion, is not given a fair advertising and promotion at international level.

Some brief remarks

People:

thought that the coldness of the people was directly proportional to the latitude, but I was wrong! The Scots are very sociable people and : no doubt appreciate the fact of meeting new people and, secondly, there seemed very kind and helpful.

several times (brandishing a map with perplexed do) we were approached by boys, ladies or gentlemen who asked us if we needed help.

To underline the seamless integration of different ethnic groups and mutual respect that exists in their society.

Urban Environment and countryside:

The strength of Scotland is without doubt the landscape green and beautiful as few hills and "sheep" out of sight; ;

city also show original and beautiful to see, being all different from each other, they would like to draw on a small list:

1 - A tied and Glasgow Inverness;

2 - Edinburgh

3 - Oban and Portree;

4 - Fort William;

5 - Aberdeen,

I placed 2nd place in Edinburgh, mainly because I found much travel, too much for my taste, but it is a subjective opinion that you should not consider for any trip;

Last place in Aberdeen because, according to me, is a city and too much new industrial, that due to the presence of numerous oil fields in the sea adjacent to her. I thought it was very ... mmm ... "Grey and anonymous."

But I will not get lost in conversation when we'll be more than a few and photos to document everything!

below shows you our itinerary (kindly provided by Lorenzo Magnani):

Day 1 (Friday July 30 2010) public transportation and aviation:

• Piacenza - Milano Centrale (obviously by train);
• Central Milan - Malpensa (Malpensa Shuttle);
• Malpensa - Edinburgh (easyJet);
• Edinburgh - Glasgow (train);

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Day 2 (Saturday, July 31, 2010) on foot :

• Glasgow;

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Day 3 (Sunday, August 1, 2010) on foot:

• Glasgow;

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Day 4 (Monday, 02 August 2010) Car:

• Glasgow;
• Luss (Loch Lamond);
• Invereray (Loch Fine);
• Kilchum Castle ( Loch Awe);
• Oban;
• Fort William (Ben Nevis and Loch Linnie)

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Day 5 (Tuesday, August 3, 2010) Car:

• Fort William (Ben Nevis and Loch Linnie)
• Mallaig - Isle of Skye;
• Kilchrist Church (Broadford);
• Dunvegan Castle (Loch Dunvegan)
• Duntulum Castle (Duntulum)
• Uig (Loch Snizort)

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Day 6 (Wednesday 04 August 2010) Car:

• Uig;
• Old Man of Stone;
• Portree;
• Eilean Donan Castle (Loch Alsh)
• Fort Augustus (Loch Ness);
• Inverness (Loch Ness);

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Day 7 (Thursday, 05 August 2010) Car:

• Inverness (Loch Ness);
• Aberdeen (North Sea);

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Day 8 (Friday 06 August 2010) Car:

• Aberdeen (North Sea);
• Edinburgh;

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Day 9 (Saturday, August 7 2010) on foot:

• Edinburgh;

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Day 10 (Sunday, August 6, 2010), public transport and aviation:

• Edinburgh;
• Malpensa
• Milano Centrale;
• Piacenza

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By any route you can see the photos of the places visited during the day. I used the space offered by online picasaweb: I will soon a sample video to show how they can be easily downloaded with Google Picasa.

Hello and see you soon!