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Life at Princes Street

Okay, this is life at Princes Street East Backpackers' Hostel, known as 'home', for short. It can get a little wild and wacky at times, but it's a good place to live, as long as you remember to sleep, sometimes.

What isn't on this page:

The P-Party, in early December, was so amazing that it gets its own section. Click below to go there:

P Party!!

From January 13th to January 17th, we had a goodbye party for Annica & Ylva. It also gets its own section:

Swedish Goodbye Party

This page only covers up to my departure for Italy on January 26th, 2002. For newer Edinburgh photos dating from my return on April 27th, 2002, please see the "Back in Edinburgh" page:

Back in Edinburgh

Balmoral Bathroom

This is the view from our bathroom, affectionately known as the 'Balmoral Bathroom'

The Cave by day

And this is The Cave, where we spend so many of our nights. For those having trouble matching this shot with your memories, make it nighttime, add a haze of blue smoke, 10 cans of Tennent's and a few Stella, and imagine Stu sprawled across the pool table. (He's polite and moves to the couch if you want a game)

Hey! Cool! Now I have a photo of exactly that scene, thanks to Ylva. Check it out:

Cave by Night, Stu, Shane, Alissa, Me (Photo:Ylva)

Our beds in room K

And this is the mess on my side of room K. I'd take a picture of the floor, but you can't see it. That's mostly Ylva's fault though.

Ylva cleans up

...but what's this? Could Ylva be cleaning up? Jeremy will never believe it without this photgraphic evidence! (Photo: Annica)

Jeremy Cleans Up

And after Ylva left, Jeremy went a little nuts and cleaned up that half of the room. He even hijacked the vacuum cleaner. Annica and Elin and I had to hide up in the top bunks for our own safety.

Annica and Jeremy at War!

Of course, not all of the mess is Ylva's. Annica and Jeremy have this ongoing war involving disgusting things (like the dirty socks in Annica's hand) being thrown into each other's beds. Unfortunately, sometimes they miss...

Chris gets in touch with his feminine side

Of course, Jeremy isn't the only one who sometimes feels the need to get in touch with his feminine side and clean up. I just think Chris maybe takes it a little further in other directions. :)

Tweety in her favourite corner

And this is why Tweety is called Tweety! Often, she can be found quietly reading Harry Potter in the corner. The rest of the time, she's bouncing around like a loose rocket, in danger of killing anyone who doesn't dodge quickly enough.

Annica and Ylva

Everybody's got to go sometime...

Jesse, Paul, Steve, Ylva

Perhaps one of Jesse, Paul, Steve, or Ylva could tell me how this photo got on my camera?

Drinking Games

Drinking? Here? Shocking!

Below, we see Stu and I waterfalling. He can't stop drinking until I do, and he really wishes I would stop. I eventually did, but that was because the can was empty...

Stu and I Waterfalling (Photo:Ylva)

Stu & Me post-waterfall (Photo:Ylva)

Click here to go to Stu's Drinking Game web page.

Stu & I waterfalling, animated!

My Goodbye Thingy

All good things must come to an end, as they say. What with my Swedes having left the building, and my having a train ticket to use, it was time for me to leave, too. On to a 7 day highland tour (see the page for that on this site), and then off to Italy and wherever else I can get to on my money. So, another goodbye party, this one smaller.

Stu, Tweety, and Me

It's about 5am in this photo, and that phone Stu is holding has Ylva on the other end of it, all the way from Sweden. So, in a way, she was at the party, too.

Alissa, Tweety, and Mr. Freaky Wizard

Alissa, Tweety, and the freaky wall-wizard glowing in a very sinister way. He frightens people when they wake up in the cave. Right, Stu?

Stu asleep in the Cave

Stu, freaking out as Tweety wakes him

Stu, after Tweety's wakeup

St. Lucia

Stef, Annica, and Ylva on St. Lucia

Here, Stef, Annica, and Ylva lead us in traditional Swedish celebrations of St. Lucia's night. (Photo: Annica)

Big hug: Ylva, Jesse, Georgie

Jocelyn & Ina (Photo: Ylva)

St. Lucia Party (Photo: Annica)

Christmas Dinner

Santa Carlo

Santa Carlo wears his dessert

My Birthday

My Birthday Dinner (Photo: Ylva)

Dinner was at Garfunkel's (Sorry, Jennie!), and was actually pretty good, in spite of my being really sick.

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Couldn't somebody have told me I was riding a chicken?

At Nicol Edwards' (Photo: Ylva)

New Year's Eve

New Year's Dinner in Room K

We had dinner in Room K before New Year's (Thanks Ylva! You're a great chef!), and clockwise from me we have Stu, Jeremy, Annica, Ylva, Alissa, and Rachel and Chris, who are on a special visitor's pass to Ward K.

More Dinner (Photo:Ylva)

Rachel does a headstand

Later on, Chris tried to see if he could get Rachel's dinner to fall out, but it was good stick-to-your-ribs food.

Street Party on Princes (Photo:Ylva)

Paulie, Stef, Tweety, Jenna (Photo:Ylva)

George and Scott (Photo:Ylva)

Georgie's Birthday!

Georgie gets a present!

The gang for Georgie's B-Day

Who were there, going from near to far:
Left: Paulie, Jocelyn, Jenna, Steve, Georgie, Christian, Richard, (Pip's taking the photo, but she'd be next), Alistair, Miika
Right: Ina, Reuben, Jessie (Ewww! Grossss!), Hostel Stu, blurred?,blurred?, Annica, Me.
Also, there was this other table out behind that had six other people at it. What was with that?

Miika gets a birthday humping!

Miika's award-winning posterior gets a good and proper Birthday Humping from Georgie!

Alistair eating

Right now, Pip is thinking 'Do I know this guy?'

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