Cleared the plate , it was excellent. It was my only meal of the day, no breakfast and ‘lunch’ on the train was coffee and crisps.

Calorie free according to Uber Eats

Hoping the Hilton lounge in Reno is a bit better!

Oh my, I just blocked two of my four bypasses just looking at that delicious burger and shake

The lounge is inexplicable, it’s more like a cafe. There is nowhere comfortable to actually lounge, and nowhere to work??? All in all it’s a pretty unappealing space. Honestly none of the three spaces are that appealing but this one least of all.[/QUOTE]
If you think this one is bad, try the lounge in the Geneva airport Hilton.... That's another weekend trip for you.

Good morning from a thoroughly miserable Edinburgh. I don’t have a word to describe the weather, it is on that transition point between mist and rain where the water is not quite hanging in the air. Hopefully it’ll burn off as the day goes on.

My body clock did its thing and woke me around quarter past five, and I’ve spent the last couple of hours lounging around and catching up with the world.

According to reception when I checked in, breakfast is served in the restaurant. The restaurant for breakfast looks suspiciously like the executive lounge That does explain the cafe layout and lack of any real ‘lounge’ space.










Starting the day in proper fashion, it is time to fuel up for the day ahead

I spent many days during my training for ATC in the tower waiting for the Haar to disperse! I’m sure your familiar as a Newcastle resident, there seemed to be no real reason why or when it disappeared! It could be gone in 5 minutes or 5 days😳

Time to tour! A cluster of yellow umbrellas in the distance denotes the starting point



On another note , breakfast this morning was this simple omelette, and it is NOT sitting well… hopefully the walk helps settle my stomach

Dreich is the word you are looking for

The walking tour was arranged by City Explorers and our guide for the morning was a young lady named Emma who was from upper New York! Armed with a degree in Scottish History, she had relocated to Edinburgh and has been here long enough to have a soft Scottish burr.

She was very good, with a great line of patter, an engaging delivery, and the usual collection of anti-English lines

Unfortunately for me, after 40 minutes my stomach was feeling increasingly unsettled and in an excess of caution I made my apologies to Emma and headed back to the hotel.

We didn’t get far in the tour in terms of distance as the first twenty minutes had been patter and scene setting, but we did get to the statue of Sylvester Stallone

Once I returned to my room I fell immediately asleep and have only just awoken, two hours later. Feeling improved, but far from 100%.

I’ve popped down to the executive lounge and the offering is identical to yesterday, the same curly sandwiches, sweets, and cake on the buffet, and coffee in a thermos. All I want right now is coffee and we’ll see how it goes. There’s a couple of hours until the Johnny Walker experience…. kill or cure?

Cure, of course - remember the good old Homer Simpson quote Hope you will feel better!

Not one coming to mind, you’re going to have to educate me on that one

Here you go:

Wise words indeed