Fortunately, it paid off to have insisted on flying business class for such a long flight. With a bit of technical difficulty that delayed my flight by 3 hours, I did not get into Edinburgh till like 3pm ish. I didn't even bother eating on the flight, I just slept thru the entire flight to London!
Now that I have made it to the apartment, the place is a lot bigger than what i had in HK, with enough beds for 4, but am not very impressed with the furnishings. It's almost like a rental apartment you would rent for a vacation at the beach or a ski trip. Decently clean enough I guess but at 830pm, the streets were already dead. No Mark & Spencer or supermarket open at this time of the night. Oh boy!
Btw, I have been driving around with a car I rented for use during my stay. I ended up with a car that has a manual transmission. Yes, they do drive on the other side of the car here. Although you know what's weird? There are some cars that actually has the driver seat on the left side! So everyone does keep left on the road here but then there's a mix of cars with some that drive on same side as the US!
I think I have a pretty good hang of driving around here now. So many roundabouts and I now look right first before I turn or enter a roundabout. The car is pretty easy to drive too. The clutch reminds me of that of a motorcycle. Its a short catch and needs little to no easing off of the clutch at all when shifting.
congrats on making it and also flying business. be careful on the roads, girl, you know how your family worries!
ReplyDeleteyea i've been told ppl drive stick in europe. Jesse got a porsche as rental car when he was in europe for work. what did you get? don't speed. I hear u get tickets based on how much you make. is that true? My kindle and i will finally spend some time when i fly here! i checked midterm is oct2nd and fall break after that. I should be good. make sure you have good internet connection! i might still have hw to do haha..i might have to figure out some way to fax in hw or scan :-P
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