My Journey in UK – Part 8

I took holiday for 2 weeks so I could go and travel anywhere that I wanted. My first journey begun at 27th of December , on Christmas and Boxing day the transportation was closed, to go Stirling. I just only went to William Wallace Monument and Bridge of Allan. The monument is good and very historic. You can see and take picture of William Wallace's Sword and also can climb to the top of monument that it's almost 248 steps. About Bridge of Allan, this place is very good , but unfortunately I didn't get further interesting in here.

Edinburgh for second times at 28th December. I was aware that I missed many nice places before and finally I have visited most of them. The another best place that I found was The Palace of Holyroodhouse. This place is second palace for Her Majesty of Queen Elizabeth after The Buckingham Palace and The Palace for Mary Queen of Scots. But I still missed to visit Edinburgh Zoo because I didn't have much time. As follow were the places that I visited in Edinburgh :

1. The Palace of Holyroodhouse and Queen Gallery

2. St. Gilles Cathedral

3. Museum of Scotland

4. The Scottish Parliament (not came inside)

5. John Knox house (not came inside)

6. Royal Botanic Garden

7. Edinburgh Harbor

29th December was a bad day in my traveling, because the whether was very bad, the transportation wasn't good enough and the most bad luck was my digital camera broken. Where was that place ? Loch Lomond :(. By the way in my opinion Loch Lomond is really nice place to see beautiful view and panorama. There are Loch Lomond Shore, Gateway Centre to The Trossach National Park, Sea Life Aquarium and still have many places that I haven't reached yet. If you're real hiker or backpacker, I recommend to visit and stay for several days in this place. And also this place is little near with Glasgow, it's around 45 minutes from City Centre.

Long traveling using private car at 30th December, it's almost 9 hours on street and just only 1.5 hours took a rest and visited some places. Starting from my flat at Bridge of Weir, I would go to Inverness city. For your information, Inverness has motto that is “Inverness is the best small city in the world”. I departed use following route : Glasgow City Centre – Loch Lomond – Crianlarich – Fort William – Loch Ness – Inverness. When I returned use other route : Inverness – Perth – Stirling – Glasgow City Centre. I saw many good places along trip especially for Highland area.

● Loch Lomond, see my journey before

● Crianlarich, there's good panorama around. After here you can continue to Fort William or Oban (Some people said this is good place but I haven't visited yet)

● Fort William, it should be many attractions in summer like Jacobby Steam Train (Harry Potter) and Cable Car Nevis Range. Unfortunately, I went in winter so there weren't no attractions anymore :(

● Between Fort William and Inverness, I could see best view of mountain that's covered by snow. This place are known Highland Area.

● Urquhart Castle in Loch Ness. This is one of the best castle attractions in Scotland. So I've visited all of the best castle in here, there are Edinburgh Castle, Stirling Castle and Urquhart Castle.

● Stirling, see my Stirling journey

• Inverness is good city but I couldn't much enjoy because that was rain

My Journey in UK – Part 7

Hello Manchester, I'm coming. I have spent 2 days at Manchester and actually this city is very good for modern activities like shopping, entertainment, sports. There are many places to doing those activities, so if you wanna see ancient places this place isn't recommended. But the most important thing to do in here is see and come inside Manchester United Stadium, the biggest football stadium in UK. I had new experience that stayed 1 night at the youth hostel, a cheap hotel for backpacker purpose and also share room with other people, also known as bed and breakfast. For your information, the transportation in here is good. You can use tram, train, or bus to reach all places. That was easier than Glasgow but a little bit harder than London. There are list of modern places that you must visit in Manchester (based on my listing :p):

1. Manchester United ,Theater of Dream, stadium, I took stadium and museum tour and that was very great

2. Old Trafford's Town Hall, you can just take picture while pass it before stadium

3. All these places that near with St Peter's Square Tram station : Manchester Central Library, Town Hall, The Bridgewater Hall, Gmex Centre, Manchester International CConvention Centre and Manchester Art Galleries

4. Urbis (Modern Museum) and Manchester Cathedral are near with Victoria station

5. The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester

6. Manchester City Stadium, It's also great for me because it's just only me that took the tour so it's like a private tour :p

7. Trafford Centre, It's very very big shopping mall that I've ever seen before

8. The lorry and Imperial War Museum, I missed all of these

The another thing was I found Mosque in Manchester and finally I could pray to my GOD in Mosque at first time for I've been in UK. And don't forget to be carefully in Manchester, because there is the gay village near with chorlton bus/coach station :).

My Journey in UK – Part 6

Stirling, one of good city in Scotland, was my next destination. In here I've planned to visit Stirling Castle, the second best castle after Edinburgh Castle. This castle is smaller than Edinburgh has, but The King and Queen of Scotland chose this castle for favorite place to stay. There are palace building and cathedral inside this castle. After that, I went to Argryll's lodging where The Earl of Argryll stayed for long long time ago. Continued to Old Town Jail, scary place for me :), was the prison on 18th century. I also look for Stirling Old Bridge. But There is one missed place , there is William Wallace Monument. And I will go there to see the monument of Scotland Guardian

My Journey in UK – Part 5

That was the busiest weekend for me. I was really tired after done some of Christmas parties. Beginning on Friday, there was developer lunch till evening. Continued with drink party together with development and deployment at pub till midnight. Then me and some of people joined private party at Bamboo, the club in Glasgow, till morning. After I took a rest for a day then I prepared to go my company Christmas Party on Saturday night. That party started at 7 pm until midnight. There was something special for my experience because I meet almost all my company employees and I could get some stories for them. So, that weekend I absolutely not traveled and fortunately the weather was too bad to hang out.

My Journey in UK – Part 4

Two days I spent my time to go to museums and Paisley town. Kelvingrove museum has many collections (almost 8000 collections) from ancient things, fossil and also galleries. If you're in Glasgow, I recommend to don't forget visit this museum. The second museum that I've visited was Museum of Transport. In here , you'll get vehicle collections from several years ago. You'll see steam train, old bus, old car, old bike and also old motor cycle. Therefore you can see the history of transportation vehicles.

There was nothing special in Paisley ( because it's just only a town) , except for museum, town hall and cathedral. And I also could not enjoy because in that day there was rainy.