Ruminations after 15 months.
This post leaps about like a flea at a picnic. We like Scotland, especially Edinburgh. Actually a more accurate rendition of that sentiment is, we like Scotland, everywhere but Glasgow. We LOVE Edinburgh. Edinburgh has grace and charm and style and beauty. Edinburgh makes money out of its tourists by wooing them and charming them into spending time and money in the city. It treats them like honored guests, humoring their little ways and only occasionally honking when they mess up on the roads and drive the wrong way. Glasgow also makes money out of its tourists, lots and lots of money; they take photographs of their tourists (and residents of course) when they mess up and drive the wrong way and then send them traffic tickets as souvenirs. And no, in case you are wondering, we have not ever personally received a traffic ticket from Glasgow. We have made our fair share of driving mistakes, but never in Glasgow. We drive in Glasgow when we cannot avoid it, but always on tente