Yes! Another family trip just before the year 2025 ends. This time, we started the trip with just the four of us and we started from Saudi of course. Angah waited for us in Cork, his new home for the moment. In the wee hours of 14th December, we left RUH for LHR, arriving LHR at around 5.15 am. Shortly after, we left LHR for EDI to get to our first destination, Edinburgh Castle
a.k.a Hogwarts Castle. Weather was supercold, windy and gloomy when we arrived, and we went straight to the castle right after dropping our luggage at the hotel, stopping by a Christmas market on the way.
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| View of Edinburgh from the castle |
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| Edinburgh Christmas market |
We left EDI for ORK the next day and arrived at the latter around 9.00 pm. Achik & I stayed at the hotel room while Abah & Along went to pick up Angah. Soon after, our family of five reunited again. Yeay!
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| Click! Five in a frame |
After breakfast the next morning, which was not that early anyway, we left Cork for Dublin because Angah needed to settle his residency permit. We spent the night at a freezing Christmas market in Dublin where Along & Achik enjoyed ice skating that they missed in Edinburgh.
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| Dublin Christmas market |
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| Ice skating duo preparing for a show |
When we returned to Cork the next day, it was already dark. We had to postpone our trip to Cobh and went to another Christmas market instead. This time, an indoor one, which was less freezing. We went to Cobh after breakfast and check-out the next morning, dropped Angah at his home and then went to Cork airport to begin return journey to Riyadh.
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Cobh, we made it!
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It was a very short trip indeed, but one where we spent time together, which makes it so priceless. Looking forward to another one soon!
