OK, we moved into the new flat last night (remember, they call apartments "flats" here for some reason). It's AWESOME--except, still no Internet. Grrrr...
The good news about that is that I am now a block away from the bus that can get me to Juice Monkeys in about 20 minutes or so. It's just like being back in Westwood, except I get less exercise. :(
The
apartment flat is a one-bedroom with a full kitchen, HUGE couch, HUGE loveseat, 32 inch flat screen TV and 2 half-baths. I say 2 half-baths because they are really one bathroom put together, but they are split into two closets. One has the toilet and a cute little sink and the other has a shower stall and a second cute little sink. The kitchen doesn't have a dishwasher, but it does have a clothes washer--I'm not sure how to dry the clothes, though. I have a feeling the washer will do it for us, but I have no idea
how it will.
The neighborhood the flat is in seems cool enough--apparently, it's the West Hollywood of Edinburgh. I've only seen a few people who look like they belong to TheGay, but there are buckets of senior citizens around. There's a Chinese food place across the street from us and many restaurants up and down Leith Walk, which is the street our flat is off of. There's even one place called The Bronx, with a message in the window proclaiming "It's an American Thing!"
Not something I'd want in my window these days ;)
We'll have to eat there sometime if only so we can please ourselves and other MST3K fans by finishing dessert and proclaiming afterward "WE MUST LEAVE THE BRONX!"
Well, the show TheFiancee is in goes up tomorrow so finally we'll be able to see each other more often. I hope to keep blogging as much as I have been or even more despite that. Plus we're getting married on Monday and things still need to be worked out for that, too. I've been trying to find 5 seconds with a local phone to call my friends Danny and Maire to coordinate with them some sort of meeting. Danny's coming up on Sunday from England while Maire is local.
Then my old friend Rick is down in the south of England--we're hoping to hook up with him on the way back down. Sadly, his gran just died, so we're not sure how things will work. Obviously, our condolences go out to him and his family.
On the bright side, my old college roommate (and even older friend) will be in London the same time we are, so we'll try to match up with him, too.
I had hoped we'd make it to WorldCon in Glasgow, but things are still too screwy here. We're not used to the city still and that is slowing us down a lot. Even though the bus system is great here, we're not super familiar with it so we both end up doing some extra walking. This morning TheFiancee discovered that the estimate I had given her on the length of time it took to get from our flat to the center of the city was inaccurate (oops!) she hailed a cab rather than try to find a bus.
I think at this point we're just going to concentrate on doing everything in the immediate area that we want to do with our wedding being at the top of that list. However, I'd like to check out Edinburgh castle again as well as the Princes St. Gardens, perhaps a couple of the museums and more.
There's not much to report at this point because today has been much more smooth since we're not out at the cottage dealing with the distance and all of the other people. Last night I spent the night just watching the MANY channels I have on our TV--including Playboy channel--man, do they love their lesbians in the UK, or what??
I saw no fewer than 4 lesbian shows on the three free adult channels I had access to last night.
Now, I'm enjoying quad-breast cinematography as much as the next guy, but whatever happened to equal opportunity soft-core?
OH and damn--I almost forgot to mention these guys I saw yesterday outside of the Edinburgh Art Museum. I'm totally brain farting on their name but they were these cool Celticky-looking drum-band. They are six people--five with drums and one with bag pipes. I shot one of their songs yesterday and will try to post the vid later today--I've got so much to do that I probably won't get to it today, though.
In fact, I should end this entry and get on with other online stuff I need to do. I hope everyone is having a good day!!