Day 1
Door: Martijn
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21 Juli 2014 | Verenigd Koninkrijk, Oban
On Monday the 21st of June, at around 1 am, I began packing my bag and getting everything ready to take the bus to the station. The fear of missing the bus kept me from sleeping, but I finally forced myself to take a quick nap. I woke up at half past 5, ate some breakfast, and left my room at 6 am to catch the 6:24 to the station.
The bus arrived just on time and I wanted to check in. But upon entering the bus and putting my OV chip card up against the machine, it notified me that the card had been blocked. I wasn't really sure what had been the cause of this since I don't use my card often. Nonetheless, I bought a ticket from the driver and we rode to the station.
I was nicely on time to catch the 6:45 to Schiphol, where I arrived at around 8 am.
As I've only traveled by plane once I wasn't really sure where I had to go. Luckily I had some help from a receptionist at the help desk where she told me to check in at Departures 3a. So I did.
The plane to Birmingham was delayed, which wasn't good news as I also had to catch another plane and a couple of trains in Scotland in order to get to Oban.
I arrived in Birmingham a bit later than planned, however, the next plane was also delayed and I was able to arrive in Edinburgh just after 2 pm.
In Edinburgh I discovered that the train which I had planned to take to Oban wasn't available that day. I therefore had to quickly download the Scot Rail app in order to figure out where to go.
I managed to take a tram to Edinburgh, where I was lucky enough to catch a glimpse of Edinburgh Castle, and I arrived at Haymarket station where I took the train to Glasgow Queen street.
Arriving at Queen Street, I had to wait an hour and a half before the very last train to Oban departed. And at 18:24 the train left Queen Street station for Oban.
It took us around 4 hours to arrive here due to all the lochs and mountains that make it difficult to travel.
But I'm finally here and ready to enjoy Scotland.
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