Edinburgh back to Atlanta

Get up early, check out, catch the shuttle bus back to the airport.

Nice sunrise coming up over the North Bridge.

Front seat in the top of the double-decker bus.

Frenchie sandwich in CDG.

Edinburgh (Day 0)

Had a conference program committee meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. Long flight from Atlanta to Paris, a painfully long four-hour lay-over in CDG (almost slept through the boarding calls), and then a short commuter flight to Edinburgh.

Little snack tray that you get on the Air France hop from CDG to EDI. Pretty nice for an airplane!

Random views on the double-decker bus from the airport to downtown.



Big impressive buildings.

Castle in the background.


This is pretty neat. It's a model of the city commissioned so that blind people can feel it and get a sense of the layout of the city, the topology, etc. There's some braille descriptions along with it.


I had to play so wacky games with converters to get juice for my laptop.



"New Town"

My ass never made it inside.


The place I ended up for dinner. Just pulled restaurant listings from Lonely Planet. Sort of upscale "new" Scottish/British fare.

Cold cider.

Black pudding. Was pretty tasty despite its ominous look.

Scottish lamb of some sort, I believe.

Panna cotta-like dessert.