First time in Scotland

We landed in Edinburgh and were met with cool and dry weather when the cabin doors were opened.  Much better than the hot and humid weather we just left in Chicago. The airport doesn’t use jetways so we descended down the stairs to shuttle buses that took us to passport control.  Being near the back of the plane meant that we were the last to deplane and also meant that we were standing room only by the doors in the last shuttle bus.  That ended up to our advantage as the last shuttle bus was the first to leave for passport control so we were the first in a very long line from our flight to get processed.

Once we left customs we found the group that is part of number one’s summer camp at St Andrews so we said goodbye, gave him an embarrassing hug in front of the other students who had traveled there on their own and headed to the Airlink 100 bus stop for downtown Edinburgh.

I was impressed with the skills of our double decker coach driver.  He was passing and threading that coach through some narrow spots.   We arrived on the Waverly bridge in the middle of the old part of Edinburgh which was next to the train station to London.  Since we had a few hours before the train departure we went to the local wireless store to buy a WiFi hotspot and had breakfast but skipped the haggis option.  The English breakfast sausage was also not a hit, a starchy texture and unusual spices.