The trip to Edinburgh was planned months ago. While the accommodation and sight-seeing tour can be planned, a flight delay is totally out of my control. We touched down at Gatwick around 1045pm, which left us 30 minutes to get to the train station which leaves for London Bridge at 11:15. Missing that would mean another hour's wait till 1215pm. We waited and waited and waited for the luggage . It eventually came off the belt but the "air-train" to the rail station was the bottleneck and having 20 girls on a hen's night fighting every space with us proved to be our downfall. We sped off when the doors opened. Shucks, 30 secs late and an very unforgiving end to a good trip.
What was meant to be a "relaxed" trip turned out to be rather intense as we waited aimlessly (and tired) for another hour. Upon arriving in London, we took a mini-cab home. This was Xueyan's first ride in a London cab and, my, wasn't it so forgettable.
The trip up north was our first to Scotland since we came over. Friends shared about the "nice weather, whiskey aplenty and sexy Scots". It did not disappoint, other that me hoping to go up there again as I thought we only had a glimpse of Scottish hospitality. We went in search of Nessie and the Holy Grail. While the Knights Templar was not to be found, we did find Nessie.
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