The day started with coffee in the room and then down to breakfast. The breakfast room was packed we got the last table. The usual buffet for the full, now called Scottish breakfast. The difference here is that they will also prepare eggs directly either fired or poached. A word on eggs. There are three basic ways to get eggs here, scrambled, poached or fried. Fried is always sunny side up, there is no concept of over easy, over hard, etc. In some places you can also get a 3-minute egg. I avoided the meat this morning and just had some scrambled eggs, potatoes and a croissant. Jerry had the same, just added his morning yogurt. We would need the energy for the day ahead, the hills of Edinburg. Our original plan for the day was
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