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Kilmarnock and Crossraguel Abbey

Continued from Part 2…

On Monday morning, we woke up nice and early again, got another hearty breakfast, and set off to explore. First stop was Kilmarnock, a slightly larger town than Ayr just a short drive North. The town wasn’t very nice itself, it was fairly run-down with a lot of empty shops. There was some fairly interesting graffiti around though.

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The Deep Aquarium in Hull

Continued from Part 1…

On Monday morning after breakfast in the hotel, we set off to Hull to see The Deep, one of the largest aquariums in the UK. The building itself was pretty impressive, and the inside was very interesting. The first area of the tour is filled with (most likely fake) fossils of prehistoric marine life.

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