Edinburgh Girl

Our journey to Siem Reap was long. Instead of going straight to Siem Reap from Sihanoukville, we had to travel back to Phnom Penh and then wait for an hour at the bus station to change on to the Siem Reap bus. This meant it took us 12 hours to get there! We've definitely did our fair share of long bus journeys on the trip. I feel I can do any bus journey now after being on one for 25 hours from Laos to Vietnam. Although I vowed never to do something like that again! We stayed at Sizen Retreat and Spa in a lovely bungalow surrounded by trees. We had a restaurant beside our bungalow and a great pool. We arrived quite late at night to check in so got food at the restaurant and then had an early night. The next day we went to Peace Café for lunch. We sat outside in their massive garden enjoying the sunshine. It's a vegetarian health café and they hold yoga classes their too. We thought we would have a healthy meal after all the unhealthy food we had been gorging on. ...

After our rocky journey to Vang Vieng, our journey on to Vientiane was absolutely fine. We got chatting to a nice English couple in front of us and who were actually on the same slow boat as us from Thailand to Laos. When we got dropped off we arranged to meet the couple later on for some drinks. Our hotel was only a 10 minute walk away from where we were dropped off using the Maps Me app. Maps Me is officially now my new favourite app! You download the map of the country you want when you have Wi-Fi and then after this you can use the map through your GPS. This is excellent to use when you are in a foreign country as you can only use your Maps app on your phone when you have Wi-Fi as usually most people won't have 3G to use abroad. This way with Maps Me as long as you have Wi-Fi to download the map of the country then you can search for places and directions to somewhere without needing 3G. We had picked a pretty good hotel for ou...

Last Thursday Cocktails in the City was held at Mansfield Traquair Church on Mansfield Road. Lots of cocktail bars around Edinburgh set up mini bars around the church for you to sample one of their cocktails from their menu. Edinburgh bars taking part in the event included Harvey Nichols 4th Floor, Panda & Sons and 56 North.                                                                                                      I had never been inside the church before the event and it was...

I thought I would share with you all a night out I had with my flatmates just before Christmas. We went out for a pub night to Lebowskis and ended our night down stairs from there at Henry's Cellar Bar. Both are on Morrison Street just off Lothian Road.                           The bar had a very relaxed atmosphere and was a great place to spend a night with good friends. They had a specials menu on with a selection of cocktails to choose from that me and my friends took full advantage of, as shown in the picture above. We were there on a Thursday night and the bar was surprisingly quiet but it could have just been because it was a week night as I'm sure the weekends are much more busy. When we were there we just had drinks, however I have heard they do great burgers so will need to go again and try them out.       After our cocktails we moved on to wine. I was shocked when I wen...