So try to keep up. I'm likely posting a few today. So far I've posted Train Spotting, Edinburgh and now this one. Prior to that was the one about York Minster.
I'm falling behind so now I'm trying to catch up. We'll see how it goes.
The last post "Edinburgh" was just too much fun for me to post as is. I seem to be getting in the habit now of loading the pictures in in the order I want them in and then writing around them. Sometimes I'll make little notes to myself in a draft that I'll come back to. This morning (still Sunday in Glasgow) I put out four quick drafts (not including this one), and when I came to work on the Edinburgh one I thought the minimalism would be highly entertaining (at least for me anyway) given how I do tend to go on a bit now and again.
Apparently I am now ruining the joke.
Anyway, a few things.
1. Noah took lots of shots at the Edinburgh zoo so I will be posting those soon. And if you've read the trains post, then you've got an idea of the depth of knowledge I'll be applying to those furry little creatures.
2. The shot of us eating lunch is at The Conan Doyle. This is the same pub my Dad and I had lunch our one day in Edinburgh a few years ago.
Apparently one day in Edinburgh is becoming a thing with me.
Actually this time it was meant to be more, but we were having a hard time finding a place to stay at a reasonable rate. This is due to a combination of not booking far enough in advance and the Edinburgh Fringe Fest going on. The place is busy, like it is every August because of this festival. More research on places we're visiting and times to visit may be in order. Also, the "holding out for a couchsurfing acceptance" isn't necessarily the best plan either. Not having much luck there.
So we changed plans a bit and decided to stay in Glasgow. We had already been planning to come in to Glasgow for a day or so as it's only an hour and a bit from Edinburgh. But instead we turned it around, found a nice little house via airbnb, and are enjoying ourselves here instead.
So yes, plans are changing as we go. Which is as we expected. All I think, good experiences. But I'm also realizing that more planning is required. I've been playing it a little too loose.
And we're also looking at changing how we spend October in Europe. This time in the UK has been fun, but it's not a pace we want to increase for a month by trying to see lots of cities. We're realizing (Noah and Jake faster than I am) that the down time is important, and that, since we're supposedly travellers and not tourists, if you'll allow the distinction, we should not always be out, running around, trying to cram something new in to every day. We should be living our lives at a pace similar to the ones we live in Toronto, just in a different place. But ARGH! There is SO much to see! So, for me at least, it is a struggle.
And truthfully it is likely somewhere in the middle of all that. Getting it right first time out though, highly unlikely, and certainly not the case with us. I'd been telling myself, and perhaps naively, that the point was to get here and do it, and that, as long as we keep at it, we'll find the mix that is right for us, and that the entire process and everything along the way, counts as, if not good, at least important experience.
So learning continues, as we try to figure out how best to do this. October will likely focus on three or four cities, yet to be determined, and little day trips from them to nearby places if we so fancy.
It's interesting. I'm not sure where this is all headed, but it is changing, which we knew was going to happen. And it's important to let it do so, even if it does make me, the control freak, nervous.
And for the first time (I am slow you will recall) I am actually, which you feel, (as opposed to theoretically which you may think you actually feel but you don't, in my opinion anyway, feel in a 'true' way) beginning to realize that this, this trip thing, is going to be hard. Not all the time, but definitely some of the time. And that is okay. It may in fact be good. And it may suck, which may also be good. But then you get into short term versus long term and hindsight, and projecting, and all sorts of messy things I have yet to adequately wrap my head around.
I'll stop babbling now.
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