Edinburgh airport; airside 2/10 *UPDATED 14 Feb*

Just finished a vendor visit in Edinburgh. Waiting for the return to London. Updating from an internet kiosk in he airport. Last night in Glasgow, very interesting visit.

More to come later, my travel mates are waiting.

*****UPDATE 14 Feb*****
OK, so I need to talk about the evening in Glasgow. We worked with NCR @ the call center until about 2030 and the director we worked with was taking us to the hotel in a city with which he was unfamiliar. As his frustration grew, he was driving faster and faster, jerking around corners and we saw quite a lot of Glasgow by night. Mark was in the back sandwiched between Dave and Pete and asking for someone to crack a window, I was trying to read tiny print on Graham's map while sitting in the (wrong or left) passenger seat trying to help navigate while being thoroughly confused about being on the left (wrong) side of the road and left (wrong) side of the car with a map that was not marked with North and funny names (Scotland remember). Finally Graham jumped out to ask directions @ a convenience store (where apparently neither English nor Scottish were even a scimilie of the attendant's language) and we asked Graham to find a somewhat inhabited street with restaurants and drop us off. We could get a cab from there. Humorous at best but vomit inducing at worst I must say. None of was feeling all that well and Graham still had to drive for a hour to get home out in the countryside. He dropped us on Sauchiehall Street and we found an Italian restaurant and ordered 4 pizzas and ate every last morsel.

The best part of the whole thing was that when the cab driver dropped us we realized we had driven within a block of the hotel but didn't see the sign. A good laugh was had by all after all was said and done but I think that Graham will be rethinking any offers of chaufferring for some time. He sent me a mail the next day apologizing and jesting about a promise to have SAT NAV available for our next trip. Obvioulsy feeling bad about it but no harm done, in fact quite a funny story to tell everyone.

Next day a beautiful train ride just after the sunrise to Edinburgh. Our vendor had a cab waiting for us and we felt like stars with the suited driver holding a Starbucks sign and showing us to a Mercedes people mover.

We learned a lot about the manufacturing process and the future of one of the devices we use and then had a tremendous lunch (my first steak and ale pie, between that and the bangers and mash the a couple nights before I think I can say I had some native food this time around) overlooking the Firth of Forth. We were then chauffered to the airport and given a gift of Michael Jackson's Guide to Malt Whiskys. Another successful day