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TRAVEL - SCOTLAND
MEGAN GOVERNI
ANOTHER BRICK IN THE ...
Here we were again , being dragged around a land that was familiar yet becoming increasingly alien as we travelled north .
I ’ d been here over twenty years ago ; in fact , I ’ d lived and worked here . Scotland had been my home for a considerable amount of time in a young Australians life . It was the thing that we all seem to do , leave our large island nation to live in a small island nation . A place where the weather is less favourable , the accommodation often miserable , and the food more so . And yet , a vast number of young Australians do it every year .
I ’ d been one of those young Australians , and now here I was revisiting a land I ’ d once called home and yet for the first time , visiting places I ’ d had no idea existed , as is often the case during the ‘ rite of passage ’ of the young Australian .
Yes , we ’ d explored Edinburgh , a place where I ' d lived many years prior , to find things I ’ d never seen before . Castles , statues , and river walks . All familiar , yet somehow new . Whisky , of course , whisky . A visit to Scotland isn ’ t complete without sampling the finest , it is sampling if a bottle isn ’ t emptied , right ?
Castles , stone walls , and too many statues to count , seemed to fill the landscape around the Scottish capital . I ’ d never really noticed these as a twenty-something year old nannying for a family that was heir to one of Britain ’ s largest whisky-based alcohol produces . Of course , a young Australian living in a foreign land meant little savings as most income was spent on booze but nothing that resembled whisky , and I ’ m sure if I did partake then the artwork of the Scottish capital might ’ ve taken on a new meaning . Of course , this second coming meant seeing things through
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