I do have a car but don't have any free time, otherwise I would have PM'd you. I'm at this conference and need to manage our exhibit. The conference schedule is an all day affair everyday. But if anything changes I'll send a PM.

Well I got the paper prize. Just the quality is not the same anymore and fewer and fewer peanuts.

Good evening B:rolleyes:x!

The bags are back home in the Pit.

It is a tad warmer here than in either EDI or Saint-Malo. I played Gullane #1 in the sleet last Thursday. Major yikes. :eek:

I'd rented a manual Passat. When I checked the reservation before we left, Hertz had changed it to a manual Ford Mondeo. When I picked up the car, it had turned into an automatic diesel Volvo XC60. (Not bad for £133 for the week!)

We put about 400 miles on the car, went through exactly 1,243 round-abouts and was only flipped off one time. I found EDI drivers to be both courteous and safe; gee, just like folks in IAH. :rolleyes: I liked the car and I think I am pretty glad I didn't end up with a manual transmission.

Our routine was me playing golf in the AM and us exploring a castle in the afternoon. Last Friday was a rainout (the Marriott folks are wimps, everybody else would had been open even if it the middle of the Great Flood, though only stupid Americans would have been playing.)

The Dalmahoy was beautiful. Our room was fine, but it was lots of stairs (up & down) to go anywhere. The maid service was a bit :rolleyes:, but we lived.

I lost baglady's Garmin on our last day in Edinburgh and am bummed. I've emailed everywhere it might have gone AWOL and still hold out some hope.

Post bookmarked for later reference.....thanks Mike ^

Allow me to be the first Boxer to say Welcome home! Glad you guys had a good trip. How was your game? ^, :td:, :mad:, :rolleyes:, or :D?

So I kind of expected Gaylord Opryland to be an expansive place but this is ridiculous. I thought I could just walk to the convention center everyday and not pay any parking fee but that does not look like that will happen :rolleyes:.

Why do I think that there were a whole lot less stairs at the Dalmahoy than there were where you spent most of Saturday afternoon? :D

Anytime, sir. ^

Another suggestion...you could always sarcastically embrace your hate:

LVONRJS

ERJAGIN

thanks for the humor support.....CLE loves their RJs, oops I mean, CO loves their RJs at CLE!

Internet access at the Marriott Dalmahoy was whopping £30 per 24 hour period; the Sheraton CDG was €42 a day. At least the Sheraton had a lounge with computers to use.

jenbell took us out twice in EDI. Once for drinks at The Dome and for dinner at Wedgwood, an amazing little 12 table restaurant on the Royal Mile. Big thumbs up for both places and for Jenny's hospitality.

At the CDG Sheraton, after my free hour was up, I fooled around with the free sites that they offered and presto, somehow I got on again, this time unlimited. :D

On checkout the desk tried to charge me the 42 Euros but I denied having consented to pay even though I did realize that I seemed to have been on more than an hour. :rolleyes:

A quick investigation showed him that I indeed had not signed up for the service and the charge was removed. ^

One round in the 70s, one in the 80s and two rounds in the 90s. I think my 95 in a howling rainstorm that turned into sleet was a huge victory. As the course was open, I would have lost my £25 deposit if I had bailed. (That and I had driven 30 miles to get there.) I was paired up with a couple of guys from Dallas who had a local caddy and a "buggy." (Electric cart) I don't think I would have gotten home without both accessories.

I'll try and post some pix. Dunbar golf course had 400 year old ruins that are in play. :eek:

True dat.

We must have climbed 10,000 stairs that day. I didn't think baglady was going to make it. She was a real trooper. ^

^^^ Sticky toffee pudding ^^^

No wonder the English wanted Scotland so badly!

Is something up with CO.com? It's only got two offers on the main page... :confused: One is for online checking. The other is for enrolling in OnePass...

Plus1, did you get the gift I left on your Facebook? :D