On the way to Barcaple

Well here I am at last at Barcaple House. It's a lovely house with lots of staircases and rooms. It's got a great main staircase with wide steps and a lovely banister. The room I'm in is actually one of the guest rooms, but I'm only here temporarily, till I either move into the room they're fixing (the roof fell in...old stately houses...) or one of the other rooms. So, alas, no unpacking yet...still going to be living out of a suitcase, but hopefully only for a few days.

Anyways, so I had to walk back to Waverly train station this morning, though this time it was downhill and a bit easier. I took the Birmingham train to Carlisle and changed there, and then took the Glasgow central train up to Dumfries, going first through Gretna Green and Annan. So, I have now officially been to England, and, more importantly, to Gretna Green. Sad to say there was no young gentleman there with whom I was eloping over the border to marry without my parents' or ruthless guardian's consent!

I was met at the station by two of my team members, we shall call them Bob and Amelia (we'll see if I remember those later on...). There they were holding a brightly coloured sign that had on it "Hannada." I understood the joke and that put me in their good books! We had a nice bit of banter going on in the car, so I felt nice and welcome. I still feel like a bit of a newbie since I don't know where everything is, and everyone else has been here for so much longer, but I'm sure I'll get to know the ropes fairly quickly.

There's a girls night going on this evening, with chocolate fondue and a bit of wine, so that should be fun! Tomorrow I have off so I guess I can ask my "mentor" type person more questions.

I only took a few snapshots on the train from Carlisle to Dumfries, so I suppose I'll put them up.

Sorry for the reflection, but I wanted to take a picture of the sheep :)

It was very flat between Carlisle and Annan, felt almost like a Manitoba kind of flat, up here though there are more hills.

More sheep for my mother (they're kinda small...sorry 'bout that)

Ah, Gretna Green

A wee bit of the town...

Well, that's it for now. It's supper soon so I guess I'll head downstairs for a bit! Cheers!