Adding a splash of awesome: Aberdeen

Yesterday Salome, Missie and I headed up to Aberdeen for the day. The day started off very cold as it was snowing when I walked to the train station, Missie didn't mind as it meant she got to stay in my handbag sleeping (it was very early for a Saturday). The train trip took about 2.5hrs so we arrived in Aberdeen around 10am. As soon as we stepped off the train we realised that it was way more freezing up there than in Edinburgh even though it was snowing in Edinburgh but sunny in Aberdeen. Missie pretty much stayed in my pocket all day, nice and snug, unless we were inside somewhere warm, lucky for some I guess lol.

First we went to the visitors centre to get a map and find out where they suggest we see if only there for a day, the lady was real nice and helpful and even told us what buses we would need. We then headed to the Maritime Museum which was actually pretty cool. We all thought it was gonna be kinda blah but it had some cool stuff in it, esp around oil and gas. Aberdeen is built around the harbour and oil and gas. No photography was allowed so Missie and I couldn't do our normal 'wander' sadly.

We then headed to the Tolbooth Museum which is built in the old jail. Missie and I liked it much more than Salome who found it rather creepy. It still had the old original stone spiral stairs and one of the doors still had a big as old metal padlock on it :)

Then we wandered up Union Street which is like Princes Street in Edinburgh and Devon Street in NP, so yeah basically the main shopping street. We looked around the grounds of St Nicholas Kirk but it was closed so we couldn't go in (it's a church for those wondering). Eventually we realised it was just like all main shopping streets and since we weren't there to shop we decided to hop on a bus to Footdee (pronounced Fittie, and is a small (very small) coastal suburb), it had some very cute bachs, you couldn't really call them houses lol. If we thought Aberdeen city was freezing, well then by the sea with the sea wind (it was not a breeze) it was f**kin freezing. We walked along the beach for a bit then when was too frozen we got on a bus back to town to head towards the University.

Turns out there are two Unis, the University of Aberdeen to the north (the one we wanted to see) and the R.G.U to the south west (which we didn't wanna see) and they are both on the same bus route. Yup you guess it, we got on the bus in the wrong direction, we were a bit out of the city itself before we realised we were on the wrong bus and then we got off the bus crossed the road and got on the one going the right direction lol.

There was a game of rugby happening when we arrived and we watched one of the teams score a try but weren't sure if it was the right team or not so didn't cheer lol. Then we headed to the cathedral at the uni, then on the way to the library we saw a pretty cool sculpture (Evolutionary Loop it was called) and then the library itself was pretty cool :) nice outside and nice inside. Missie decided to come out of my pocket to help me enjoy my cup of tea lol.

From there we headed to the Winter Gardens, basically a giant version of the Fernery in Pukekura Park, and with cute lil bridges over nice lil ponds/rivers. Missie liked that it was warmer and indoors so she was happy to be out of my pocket again :) I liked some of the flowers there to and esp liked the cactus area, that was real cool.

From there we headed back into town to find some dinner and warm up before our train home. Ended up at the Handmade Burger Co, which because they have a branch in Edinburgh deserve at ranking and rating and their own post :)

The train home was pleasant enough, seemed long and nothing to look at as being winter was dark outside. Felt kinda warm when got back to Edinburgh tho which is something I spose.

Wrapped up warm for walk to station