Scotland, Day 2: Edinburgh

My vaca­tion has final­ly begun, marked by a chance to do some laun­dry after sweat­ing in the same five sets of clothes for the last 10 days. I tend to trav­el to put myself out of my com­fort zone, but that’s impos­si­ble here with Dennis tak­ing care of me. I offer to lend a hand in any way I can, but he refus­es my help cause he takes plea­sure in tak­ing care of his guests. I’d feel guilty or behold­en to him if I was­n’t the same way, but I under­stand, so I hap­pi­ly sur­ren­der myself to his hos­pi­tal­i­ty.

I’m here on a clean break, on my own terms, a detox of the mind and heart and lungs, with absolute­ly no plans at all. I know that as long as I have Dennis for com­pa­ny, I’ll have a great time.

beach

 

Scottish breakfast

A prop­er Scottish break­fast. The meat pat­ties are the UK ver­sion of bacon, and the round black cylin­der is black pud­ding, a sausage made of blood mixed with oat­meal with a taste that reminds me of liv­er.

Scottish card

 

two ice cream

I found it real­ly strange that Dennis asked for two ice cream with­out spec­i­fy­ing a flavour. Turns out they only have one, an ice cream they like­ly churned them­selves. You can also request a choco­late flake to be added in. Dennis does­n’t let me pay for any­thing.

fishheads

At the local fish mar­ket. It’s easy to get fresh fish with so much water around.

3D TV

Dennis has a 3D TV set. The effect is pret­ty impres­sive.

5 comments

  1. That break­fast looks like my mums’ alright; burnt and dry. Blood pud­ding sounds awful.… but maybe my Korean hus­band who eats Soondae (blood sausage) would like it. Liver? ick.
    I guess the sweets would make up for it though!

    Let’s see how much of a brogue you can muster on return.

  2. Hi Jeff,

    My name is Jess and I am work­ing at QUT. In the QUT Innovation Space. I found your word­press site “QUT Innovation Space”. Can you please con­tact me at jessie.roberts@qut.edu.au.

    Thanks Jess

  3. Hello Jeff
    Scottland must be a very very beau­ti­ful land BUT meals don´t like very pret­ty…

    Lourdes
    :)

  4. The pud­ding looks sketchy to me :)

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