Quiet day today and I’m sure the 4 bottles of wine last night had nothing to do with it! We picked up the rental car and the airport, packed up and said goodbye to my family. Then we headed down the road (with endless roadworks between Glasgow and Stirling… grrr….) to get to Frank’s family. Stopped by Grandma’s for a cup of tea and to say hello before heading to the flat we’ll be calling home for the next week. Holy model homes Batman! This place is amazing! Newly built with everything you could possibly think of to make things easy – except a hair dryer. It’s right down the street from the garage where Frank used to work before he emigrated.
We then proceeded to clean out Sainsbury’s – it’s amazing how quickly the “must haves” add up to more than 100 pounds! It will be interesting to how much we actually eat. We unpacked and got some laundry started and decided that we really weren’t up for a big night out. So we picked up gran and hit the chippy and had quite the order: one fish supper, one haggis supper, one chicken nuggets supper, one steak pie supper and one chicken supper. Yup all deep fried and yummy and incredibly bad for us! We then showed off all the photos from Spain and we’ll call it an early night.
Three things we noticed today:
- Chips from a chip shop are the best way to eat potatoes. Period. Even without vinegar (all they have here is malt vinegar so none for me), they are the yummiest thing around.
- Scottish people, especially grannies, are incapable of serving tea without biscuits.
- The only TV service available (besides the basic 5 channels) is satellite – no cable – which is interesting considering most of the country is covered in clouds and rain most of the time.
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