Edinburgh, Day 11 & 12

Sadly, our time in Scotland is ending. We’re heading back to China tomorrow at around 12:00 PM local time in Edinburgh. It will be another long journey, but I imagine that we’ll be able to sleep on the plane. My feelings are mixed about returning to Anqing; I’ll be sad to leave the familiarity of western culture (and the ability to communicate with people), but I’ll be happy to finish out our year in China and continue learning what we can from the experience. 


Yesterday the weather was so poor that we ran some last-minute errands in the morning and then returned to the hotel room after lunch to wait for the rainy/snowy weather to stop. We ate dinner in a cute and delicious French restaurant and had a beer in a famous pub (the Oxford from the Inspector Rebus series). It was a fun night out on the town, but I was uncomfortably stuffed after the outing.


Today we left the hotel at around nine this morning, ate breakfast at a tasty sandwich shop, saw the movie Black Swan (it was a terrific film), rode a double-decker bus around the city, drank two cups of tea while reading in a Starbucks, ate pizza for dinner, packed, and watched some trashy British television.


I'll let you all know when we've safely arrived in Hefei!