December 4, 2009

Reindeer Trip – Day 1

We’re Matt & Dave, BD’s junior creatives, and we are about to embark on an 8-hour journey to Scotland to visit the Cairngorm reindeer herd. Yesterday, we were but humble advertising creatives. Today, we become noble reindeer pilgrims.

We don’t know if there will be internet on the train, so this may well be our last post until we’re in Scotland. Wish us luck.

*UPDATE*

The train has internet! We’ve been travelling for nearly 4 hours now… and we’re only halfway there.
Ah well, at least the views are nice.

*UPDATE*

At long last, we are sat in the bar of our hotel. We’re absolutely knackered. It’s incredible how sitting motionless on a train can do that to you.

Upon our arrival, we were greeted by a friendly barmaid called Leigh, who checked us in before explaining, in detail, how to unlock and lock our room door. After assuring her we could manage, we went upstairs, found our room and dumped our luggage, and decided to head downstairs for something to eat.

We couldn’t lock our room door.

After a 10-minute struggle we admitted defeat and went to ask Leigh for help. How embarrassing.

Since the Mackenzies kitchen was now closed for the night, we weren’t able to sample some Scottish cuisine, so settled instead for Chinese (which was still local cuisine in a manner of speaking, as it was just down the road).

We’re going to bed now (in our separate beds) to get an early night so that we’re well-rested and full of energy tomorrow for our mountain walk to see the reindeer. We can’t wait! Just one more sleep!