Blogs from Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe - page 9

I spent a couple hours on Monday night updating this blog from the 5th forward and got an Error 500 when I clicked Save. Lesson learned: set up the text in another file, Save, then Copy and Paste. The Conference has finished. Now we're prepping for our airport shuttle at 7:00am (here) in the morning. I will get us caught up, but now after I get home (from Denver). Thanks for your patience. Again.... read more

I spent the morning finding a place to do our laundry before going home. Taking dirty clothes back from any trip is something I try to avoid. My search turned up a self-serve laundromat, but they also offered pick up and delivery. I made arrangements for the next day. Then it was time to get to the conference that started at 9:00am. Roger wandered the city again. It wasn't convenient for us to have to keep meeting back at the outside door to the apartment each time we'd both been out. The day was overcast and drizzly. At our afternoon meet-at-the-door, I suggested I have a second set of keys made. Roger stayed in (he didn't feel well, but hadn't told me yet) while I did a few errands that included duplicate keys. I still had ... read more

This was an easy day of exploring (and shopping). Coffee was made with a press and tasted pretty good, but there were grounds and sediment in each cup. Roger had some local breakfast wrap two doors down from our outside door. I was putting together the books and maps we no longer needed to send home, so we wouldn't have to keep carting them around in our luggage. Mid-morning Roger went out to take pictures and I headed off to a Mailboxes, Etc. The packed box was 5 kilos (11 pounds). Feeling much lighter, I went in search of other items to take home. There are so many places to shop. Roger and I met up about 2:00pm and went to the National Gallery of Scotland and its Inspiring Impressionism: Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh exhibit. We ... read more

Zum letzten Mal gibt's zweimal full scottish breakfast und zwei vegetarische Abwandlungen, wässrigen Kaffee und für A starken Schwarztee, bevor wir stilecht Schottland im Regen verlassen. Zum Abschied kurven wir durch Perth, das uns seinen recht großen, industriell genutzten Hafen zeigt und erfreuen uns auf der ungewohnt unproblematischen, weil auf der Autobahn verlaufenden Strecke zum Flughafen, des gälischen Musiksenders von BBC. Dudeleien aller Art, Geigen, Harfen, Zupfwerk, getragene Melodien von rustikalen Stimmen, die verschiedenen ch-Laute und trotzdem fröhlich klingene Folksongs. Am Flughafen trinken wir literweise Wasser aus unseren zahlreichen Flaschen und geben die letzten Pfund aus, bevor wir eine Wertung aller Unterkünfte vornehmen, die wir euch nicht vorenthalten wollen, in der Reihenfolge schlecht bis perfekt: 8. Platz (4 Punkte): Invarery Independent Hostel: zu dreck... read more

Good morning…. had my first ever kipper in butter sauce for breakfast. Very nice too… apart from the millions of bones, too fine to pull you just have to eat them… Grant had the black pudding with his usual, well liked also. So windy Wellington, – there is definitely a contender for your WINDY sign. Here. Of course the windiest spot in Edinburgh is where they have the tourist bus stops. I said to the girl whose job it was to wrangle and ticket the tourists . “You need a nice glass shelter here” she said “We had one until about 3 years ago, “Don’t tell me the wind blew it away”, I said. “I was standing under it at the time, just shattered and fell on our heads, they stopped the buses that day!” Funny ... read more