walking day again
im at bar called “Aspen” using their free wifi on my mobile. today im heading down queen street nd possibly to lieth to visit the port. tomorrow and thursday I get to spend with annabel. 
Archive for Europe ’08
Pictures and More…
Hey!
So I’ve been out and about all day around Edinburgh. Taking a 6+ hour long walk around the city (with a short bus ride and a small interlude at a park to read). It was enjoyable.
The pictures linked below show where I went, I’ll fill in some more specific details later maybe.
It started out around 10:30am as I woke (realizing free breakfast ended 30 minutes prior) and quickly showered gearing for a long walk. I unpacked my back of all electronic inessentials packing in my hoodie which I thought I might need for the rain (which it didn’t until I got back) and a bottle of water. I had my phone, camera and some books. I left around 12pm after having a phone conversation with Annabel. Walked down the familiar root to East Preston intending on grabbing a bus and riding out around. I ended up walking over to High Street and following the Royal Mile all the way to Edinburgh Castle, which was a nice long walk through Old Town. Lots of people down there, even on a Monday afternoon, letting me take many great pictures. Once at Edinburgh castle I decided to follow it back and see the Hollyrood Abbey. There are several streets that compose the Royal Mile, High Street, Lawnmarket, Canongate and Abbey Strand. Lawnmarket is where most of the touristy things are. I found a bunch of weird off the wall landmarks that I noted in the pictures, I enjoyed finding these. Once I reached Hollyrood I read by the Museum and walked around Hollyrood park enjoying an ice cream. From there, I kinda got lost. I ended up wandering for an hour or so before I decided to finally get on the bus. The one bus line where i was at was route Lothian 35 so I handed over the 2 and half pounds and rode it to where I hoped things would begin to look familiar again. They didn’t really. Heh. See the pictures to how I ended up actually getting off the bus much closer to the university than I thought I was which made walking back easier. From there I’ve just relaxed, had dinner at the John McIntire center and have been chit chatting with my friends on IRC, the forums and Annabel over email/IM. It’s been a great day, tomorrow I’m going to do some more bussing and exploring.
mobile…
posting this from my mobile at juice bar in downtown. afterwards taking a bus further in the city to explore. ill post a proper update later.
Paris and Edinburgh
7/17
14:55 Paris time
Everytime I doze off and someone talks on the PA in french my brain makes subjective interpretations of the language. i.e. “One armed gleek and soccer player have gone mad”
7/18
12:20 Edinburgh
I’m sitting in Centro Bar in the John McIntire building. A block from my room at the Holland House. Yesterday, I fell asleep immediately after showering right after I got in. Later I walked into downtown and grabbed a burger at a Turkish takeout place around 10pm. Once there I called Annabel and told her I was good. She sent me like 20 txt’s afterwards. Heh. This morning I woke around 9am, got breakfast (provided by the campus for hotel dwellers) then walked into town again to get the proper adapter for their plugs (I bought a voltage converter at Radio Shack and was assured that everything would work as bought here and in Germany, they were wrong) then hung out here for the morning. My laptop, now freshly charged, is ready for blogging. Hope everyone is doing well back home. Cheers!
France – 10:15am
Hi!
I arrived in France an hour and half ago. The 7ish hour flight from Detroit wasn’t terrible, each seat in Economy had their own touch enabled video screen that not only had a small selection of movies and tv shows but would also display the camera located at the bottom and front of the airplane. Neato!
My adapter is not working on the plugs here, I’m not sure if it’s because Radio Shack sucks or because these plugs are enclaved and the adapter isn’t reaching far enough. We’ll see when I get to Edinburgh. My flight leaves in about 4 hours. My brain is slowly turning off due to lack of sleep.
