Scotland short trip ~Glasgow & Islay~

In the UK, we had a bank holiday on 29 Aug 2011, i.e. Summer bank holiday.  Why do they call bank holiday?  It means a public holiday including banks, shops, schools and so on.  Almost always, the bank holiday will be on Monday follows weekends, so these holidays are changeable dates and become a  bank holiday weekend.

I had planed to go to Scotland since before, especially Islay island, because there was famous for single malt and my friend recommended me to go to Islay since I wanted to enjoy beautiful views, malts and sea foods.  First, We went to Glasgow by Virgin train ( http://www.virgintrains.co.uk/ ) through Sheffield, Manchester, and Preston, after that we went for Kennagraig by City link coach (  http://www.citylink.co.uk/index.php ), and boarded on Ferry ( http://www.calmac.co.uk/ ).  In Islay island, we rent a car, Volkswagen wagon for two persons...because local company did not have so many automatic cars.  Total round transportation costs was 95 pounds, suitable for students, but it is quiet hard for my ages...  Of course, round train was first classes as well as Paris though.  However, our choices of coaches and ferries were good, because we could enjoy beautiful mountain and sea views, and then we were surprised the ferry since Kennagraig ferry terminal was shabby, but the ferry was luxury more than our expectation.  By the way, we wore winter clothes due to coldness though, some Scottish wore short sleeves....It's difficult for me to understand....It means that it is summer for Scottish, doesn't it?  Then, Scottish English is also interesting, because they have various intonation, so sometime, I felt the difficulty of listening, but their speaking way is so cute.

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