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Steely Mallon
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PostPosted: June 6th, 2011, 1:45 am 
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So, if any of you weren't aware, I've spent the last five months studying abroad in Edinburgh, Scotland. In those five months, I did a lot of traveling through Scotland, plus a few forays to elsewhere in Europe. Had an amazing time, so here's some pictures to show!

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Arthur's Seat, the peak of a dormant volcano. Also, the view of my bedroom window in Edinburgh.
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Streets of Edinburgh.
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Arthur's Seat again in spring.
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Atop the peak with one of my flatmates.
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Whisky tasting in Aberfeldy.
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Forth Bridge, massive steel structure, one of the inspirations of the Eiffel tower.
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View of the Five Sisters Mountains and the loch between them. Found a pair of severed sheep's heads hanging from a tree up there. Not gonna post the pictures though.
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Eilean Donan Castle.
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Pitlochry, Isle of Skye.
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Doune Castle, better known as the Monty Python castle. As in, the castle in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzcLQRXW6B0, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yjNbcKkNY, and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3YiPC91QUk (Inside only).
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Hairy coo/Highland Cow.
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Baby one. Cool fella.
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With some friends up in the Highlands.
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Night out in Fort Augustus. Don't judge.
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Dunrobin, nothern Highlands.
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Standing stones in Orkney (northern Scottish islands).
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Orkney coast.
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Highland Park distillery on Orkney. Delicious.
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Went puffin spotting. 8)
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Small seaside village by the lovely name of Tongue.
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Don't remember it's name but it's pretty.
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Scaled a ruined castle (Inverlochy) like a boss.
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Train station in Rogart. Hostel there was recycled railway sleeper cars. Cool deal.
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With another friend at Beltane Fire Festival - a reenactment of a pagan May Day festival in the heart of Edinburgh.
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Beltane.
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Ireland
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Blarney gardens, as seen from Blarney Castle.
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Beach in southwest Ireland.
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At the Cliffs of Moher. Never has a sign been more worthwhile to ignore.
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With the appropriate rain, some parts of the cliff get to have a real nice infinity-pool effect.
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The cliffs.
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Probably gonna stir up some trouble with the Northern Ireland pictures? Derry to the nationalists, Londonderry to the loyalists.
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Nationalist murals.
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Loyalist murals.
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Night out in Derry.
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Giant's Causeway.
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Belfast now. One of many nationalist murals.
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And one of many loyalist murals.
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Pilgrimage complete.
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Jameson's distillery, old pot still.
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Amsterdam & Oslo:
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Visited a friend studying in Utrecht, spent a day in Amsterdam. Very few pictures, but it's a cool town.

I was in Oslo on my own. It's a cool town, but everything is absurdly expensive. Really put a damper on my visit because I pretty much couldn't eat, couldn't afford a bus or tram around, etc... But still, cool place.

Amsterdam: Fluorescent lights museum.
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From the museum, animated for your viewing pleasure.
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Amsterdam canals.
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Houseboat!
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Murals inside Oslo's city hall.
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Viking ships.
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Sculpture in Vigeland park. You have as much idea what's going on as I do.
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Akershus Fortress.
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View of the fjord from an island a little bit offshore.
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Berlin:
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Probably the coolest individual city I've traveled through. Has a ton of history, obvious, but of anywhere I've been to, I think Berlin has the best modern culture to it.

Der Reichstag.
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Der Berliner Dom.
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Holocaust memorial.
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Snippet of the wall, completely out of place.
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East Side Gallery - Longest surviving stretch of the Berlin Wall. On side is officially commissioned murals, while the other is left to graffiti artists. Very cool.
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Back side, with a lovely lady from Nottingham I met at my hostel.
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The commissioned side.
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Yaam. This place ranks as the most surreal place I've ever been to. Basically, a bunch of Jamaican ex-pats decided to recreate Jamaica in Berlin, so they built a beach, cabana, might have even been a palm tree or two. Quite crazy.
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I said I loved Berlin for the modern culture there. This place, Kunsthaus Tacheles, is the heart of it. The entire building has been converted to an art house, with absolutely every flat surface covered in graffiti. The lot behind it houses scrap metal sculptures and more graffiti. Three bars within the place.
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Krakow:
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Very cool city, sort of went out on a limb going here. Worth it.

City center.
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Odd sculpture in the city center. I am still a bit perplexed by it.
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The Vistula river from Wawel Castle.
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My feeble attempt at stringing together a couple of shots by hand. Don't worry, buildings are not actually that crooked there.
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Chopin is a srsly big deal there. This is one of many pianos throughout the city dedicated to him.
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Interesting graffiti.
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Weiliczka salt mine. Statues carved out of salt. You could potentially eat them.
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Salt gnomes.
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Delicious.
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This is such a small sample of pictures, but I think I've at least gotten the gist of everything. If you can find me on Facebook, I've got a lot more on there. If you want to see more of something specifically, just let me know. I have something like 2000 pictures taken.

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Rory
 Post subject: Re: Steely Does Europe (56k warning)
PostPosted: June 6th, 2011, 1:52 am 
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Holy cow. Some of the scenery images are amazing. That Berlin arthouse is also pretty sweet too.

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Awesome pictures! Scotland looks absolutely beautiful, and I really want to visit Ireland some day. Hope you had fun, Steely!

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Scotland! Land of my ancestors. I've always wanted to go and wear a kilt everywhere.

DID YOU WEAR A KILT?!

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Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.
I've been to both Berlin and Krakow myself, great places. Have you been to Auschwitz too? One of the most impressive places I've ever been too.

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Ericteg wrote:
Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?

Very cool pictures, I've never been to any of these places (except Amsterdam, but I think I was 5, and the only other time I went I was only there for a few hours and didn't see much)

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Jeroen wrote:
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Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?


Eric lives there.

Usually I'm not phased by pictures such as these, but honestly Steely, I'm jealous.
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Jeroen wrote:
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Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?
Unicorns and care bears if you go into any of the cafes.

Eilean Castle is best castle. Did you find Sean Connery's head?

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Simons Pure wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
Ericteg wrote:
Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?


Eric lives there.

Oh, he actually lives in Amsterdam? I can see why he'd like it better than I do, then
Mord wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
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Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?
Unicorns and care bears if you go into any of the cafes.

That's not just Amsterdam though, I think most cities have coffeeshops (a café just sells alcohol)

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Jeroen wrote:
Simons Pure wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
Ericteg wrote:
Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?


Eric lives there.

Oh, he actually lives in Amsterdam? I can see why he'd like it better than I do, then
Mord wrote:
Jeroen wrote:
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Just one picture of Amsterdam! I am disappointed.

Honestly? I don't really understand why people always visit Amsterdam, what is there to see?
Unicorns and care bears if you go into any of the cafes.

That's not just Amsterdam though, I think most cities have coffeeshops (a café just sells alcohol)

Utrecht had them as well, so I'm guessing most cities. Added two more Amsterdam photos as well.

Mord: Didn't find Sean Connery's head, didn't know it was there. :( Crazy enough, I actually have a friend getting married there next spring (or maybe two springs from now). So damn jealous of the location. Also, a slightly better picture of the castle for your viewing pleasure.
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I want kilt pictures. You'd better have worn a kilt at some point.

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Never wore an actual kilt. :( Even a solid "fun" kilt is like $80! Closest I got was the tartan getup in Fort Augustus.

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We wore kilts as uniform in school down here, shoulda said you wanted one!

Love your photos, now we should go and live in scotland together <3

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Awesome pictures! Looks like you had a lot of fun!

I would love to travel around there sometime!

Thanks for sharing!

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Those are awesome pictures, Steely! :D

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You did Europe so hard.

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Hehe, I happen to know that the picture of the canals of Amsterdam is taken in the Red Light District...

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familiar with that neighborhood are you?? you can't claim to be a lost tourist!

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Looks like you had a great time, a lot of the pictures you've taken aren't all that far from where I live. :D

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Right, I think Simons mentioned like a week before I left Edinburgh that you study there as well? Is this true? Would be rather bizarre if we were in such close proximity the whole time and didn't know it.

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