Largs and Cricket @ Glasgow Green

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http://flickr.com/photos/tags/Largs
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It's my Birthday

It's my 27th Birthday today. I share this date with

• Bryant Jones, born in Camarillo, California, actor, Nate Hastings-Young and Restless
• Patrick Stephan Kluivert, Surinam/Dutch soccer player, Ajax
• Michele Krasnoo, born in Culver City, California, actress, Kickboxer IV
• Pamela Anderson, American Actress
• Kalpana Chawla, Karnal, India, astronaut, STS 87
• Princess Diana, British Royalty

and many more....

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Great Weekends

Great Weekends

It's been almost a month since we ventured into Scotland, so we decided to get physical and play some games on Saturday and go to Largs on Sunday to ease ourselves in the sea shore. Saturday was a colorful day as Glasgow was in festive mood. We were hardly finding streets in people, with thousands of pipers tirelessly piping and drums lighting the air, one couldn't have missed the mood. After an hour of extravaganza, everyone disappeared to a bigger and noisier place. We finally got a chance to kick some dirt in Glasgow Green. The day was bright and perfect for football, we started with three a side match with me scoring the first goal, I couldn't celebrate as we were dead tired. Football was short lived as all were tired; we spent more time in gathering the ball than playing, so we had to switch to Cricket from there on. After five games of cricket, we decided to call it a day and returned home with painful legs. Our miseries were just started as we realized that next day we had to get up at 8 AM to go to Largs.

We couldn't have asked for a more torturing weekend. All our pains were vanished in thin air when we saw the scenic Scotland's highlands. It was picture perfect and incomparable to whatever we have seen till now in our life. The places were so clean, calm, beautiful; I think Scotland got to be one of the cleanest places in earth. Grazing horses, sheeps and cows were like ticks in a green furred dog. Lakes and Sea shores were awaiting us wherever we went. The journey was a great one and was made cozy by the Scottish Rail. Largs is one hour drive from Glasgow and we thoroughly enjoyed our journey. Once we reached Largs we couldn't believe our eyes, serene pebble beach, so neat that we were guilty of entering there with our mud shoes. It was shiny and bright very unlikely. We decided to take a Pencil walk, to reach the Pencil tower. After walking for three miles or so, we thought of burning some calories by climbing a hill to get the picture of the whole place. Some were fast, some were slow with me leading the way to the top. Once we were there, we couldn't have asked for a better medicine for all the efforts that we had put. Our guys were taking pictures of all possible places and very soon they exhausted the memory card, one advice for people visiting Scotland, don't hurry to take pictures, because you would end up taking everything. The place is so beautiful that you would want to take everything back with you. After munching the food that we had, we decided to end our journey at Largs and head back home. In the joy of seeing things we forgot our pain in our legs and it began to show its ugly head when we were heading back. Even now we feel the pain in all possible places.

Only solace is that the two days that we spent last weekend would be the most memorable moment of our life and a starting of things to come which would leave us breathless. I doubt if there are places more scenic that what we have seen here. Photos soon…

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