Welcome To Scotland

We left Paris and arrived about 30 degrees cooler in Scotland. It was a very long day - packing (getting all the bags below the 15 kilo limit), cleaning and leaving the Paris apartment, hanging out at a cafe and park with the suitcases (there was only one guy we saw that looked like he was considering a snatch and run), lucking into an express train to the airport, arriving in Edinburgh, getting dinner, chatting with some fun folks at the pub, going to the Tattoo (totally cool, check out the Secret Swiss Drum Corp), and finally getting back to the apartment a bit before 2am.

We slept in late today, then went to walk the Royal Mile. It poured rain and became a game of chance with all of the morons carrying umbrellas.  Robb's rain coat failed, so we gave up on the walk and went shopping. There was a North Face store that had a great sale on, but before he could make up his mind they closed the store due to some electrical problem. We tried checking out, but were told it was unsafe for any of the staff to touch the electronics. We put the coats back and went downstairs only to see someone being checked out. Fortunately there was another outdoor store across the street with even better sales and all three of us found something!

We had a great dinner then back to the apartment to repack and play a game or two. Tomorrow we pick up a car and start the road trip.

This travel stuff can be exhausting.