Train back to London

Greetings from the train back to London. I am facing backwards in a car filled with children...should be a "fun" journey.

Scotland was great. Edinburgh was a very nice city filled with cool old buildings. It was also swamped with tourists from all over the world. It seemed much more concentrated with international people that almost any other city that I have visited. I am thinking that it feels that way due to so many sites and tourist shops being along the Royal Mile. Whereas in NYC or Paris, the tourists are spread out all over the city, in Ediburgh they seem to focus on the same area. Well, that is my thinking as of right now. Feel free to give other insights. Even though the A/C in my room wasn't that great and a strange drip started yesterday right above the toilet (clean looking water...the night manager didn't seem to think it was anything to worry about...but I can't say that I enjoy feeling mystery drops while I am in the bathroom), I still enjoyed the hotel due to the great location.

Some of the locals that I talked to were joking about all the things that Edinburgh does just for the tourists. For example, all the people wearing kilts up and down the Royal Mile are just for us. (Although I did see some funny advertisements in the windowns of the kilt-rental stores to get people to wear them for formal occasions.) I told one of the locals about the bagpiper in Glen Coe and that started a whole conversation about how many people he thought weren't even Scottish that try to get money from tourists. (Of course, he was in that college-cynical stage of life.)

It is about a 4 hr 45 min train ride to London. From there it will take a bit longer to get to my airport hotel. (No, not staying at the cool hotel from before.) It will also be fun to figure out what I need to do to make sure my ticket on Aeroflot works tomorrow. From what I understand, they have some different policies so I want to make sure I can actually get to Moscow tomorrow instead of finding out at the last minute that I don't have the right tickets. Should be exciting!

Well, typing and writing backwards is not working out well for me right now. Perhaps I will just watch some episodes of Psych on my iTunes instead.