the rain and snow

no. there's no snow. just joking! about the snow...

i am in edinburgh in the very same internet cafe i did all my email-etc.ing from when i was last here. i found it right away with no problems. i knew i would.

the flights went very very well - except for a bit of a delay leaving london there were no problems at all. my luggage arrived. both peices. in just the same shape as they left me. yay! i spoke with a very friendly and helpful young lady at the 'shuttle' booth, and she recommended i take the bus (cheapest) into edinburgh centre, and even pointed out on a map where i'd want to go from there. about a 5 minute walk, she said.

it was raining, but not very hard, when i got off the bus at wayverly station. i consulted the map i'd been given and started off with my some 115 lbs of luggage. as i suspected the walk was not at all five minutes, but rather closer to 30. no worry, though. it was a very fine walk and there were tons of people on the street. i only saw two chavs (i believe they call them 'neds' here) but they were immediately followed by a group of four very stylishly dressed young women, all smiling, and lauging.

sigh. when i arrived where i had been told my 'guest house' would be, though, it wasn't. there. not there. there was the youth hostel instead. another consultation to the map (and a comparisson with the map i'd printed and showed the shuttle girl with the hotel address on) showed that she had sent me in exactly the wrong direction. it was probably a good hour and a half walk - without luggage - back to where i should be. sigh. i took a cab.

home! at least for now. the hotel is warm, and friendly, and wee. i got settled and forced myself to stay up until 9:42pm. then to bed.

and now i'm out of internet time...