Let's all eat haggis and lard

After a nine hour bus ride, I step into the town and instantly feel like I’m at Hogwarts. Considering I caught the bus as opposed the Hogwarts Express, and considering that Hagrid wasn’t there to meet me obviously I was wrong. This town (well, the old part) has turrets, battlements and all manner of old type things that make you feel like you’re in the middle ages somehow. Personally I love it! Only a short walk to the hostel and there were all manner of pointy monuments and stone buildings. It’s truly is beautiful here. The weather is possibly not what I had expected for Summer, although we are quite far North and according to the locals it has been a rather mild Summer. No more tanning, sure, but that’s alright, I think I’ve reached my optimum brown anyways. Although it is fading.

So, for the uninformed, Sarah is working for Scottish and Newcastle, who happen to be one of the largest brewers in the U.K. Although she did apply to the product development section to be a taster, she has found herself working for the accounts people. The number bods required her accounting skills. Testers are apparently not in short supply. Not to worry. Reception at the site where Sarah is working is in fact a bar. It took me quite a while to get sorted with work. After about a week of handing out resumes and people guaranteeing to get back to me via telephone and them not I was lucky enough to score a job about 200 metres from our flat. Oh, by the way, we’re staying in a place called Stockbridge, in the North West of Edinburgh. So I’m back in a bar, which is proving to be a great deal more interesting than staring at a file room for three months, although the hours are slightly less regular! Not to worry, the people and the venue are brilliant, so it should be great fun. I am looking forward to getting down to visit the family, although I think that by then I will be well knackered. Thing is, not working for nine weeks and then going to a job that is all on my feet is proving to be a killer!

The Edinburgh Fest has started this month as well, we’re looking forward to hitting up a few shows. I am most looking forward to “One Man Starwars”. We’ll see. As a total nerd and fan of the franchise I’m interested to see how this chap pulls it off. I mean how can you go from being Yoda to being Chewbacca in one go? I don’t know either, but I’m interested to find out. Also, I’m hoping to find out where he gets his light sabers from, I could do with one “just in case” you know.

Disappointingly I haven’t managed to embarrass myself to much recently. I did launch a small bottle of sparkling mineral water at a customer yesterday. She was very understanding and I didn’t draw blood. They even tipped. Imagine if I hadn’t been so clumsy. I guess we’ll never know.

written by

haveyouseenmypassport on August 6, 2007 from Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Hey Tom,

Edinburgh is one of my favourite places!

Check out the cafe restauranty thingo in the church as you go down the Royal Mile to the castle. It is on the corner where one road heads down and the other heads up to ye castle.

There is also a cracker of a pub, I think it was called the 3 Sisters - very cavern like. I went there on a school night (Wed) while I was over there with IKEA and it was rockin'.

Keep up the good blogging!

Chris

written by Chris Fullalove on August 21, 2007

you are so lucky to visit these nice places...
thank you for posting this, I'm going to go there myself in the nearest future

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wow-traveler on October 7, 2009

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