Transport Trials and Food Follies

Sorry for the silence, everyone.  It has been a very tiring week.  I started my job at the Murrayfield Stadium and while it is not rocket science, it took a little time to figure out how the organization does its accounting. Having figured it out,  the days are passing quickly and trying to find another, more permanent job is foremost in my thoughts.  Not all the time obviously.  Most of the time I am still trying to figure out how to get where I am going.

The friends that I am staying with live in a small town about 45 minutes from Edinburgh.  The bus that goes into town from their house gets me to work in an hour and a half.  I am so sorry for all the complaints about my commute to Bread and Chocolate.  It was nothing in comparison.  Except that the buses here run on time EVEN ON WEEKENDS.  In fact, the schedule is the same every day.  It's lovely.  So I sit on the bus to go to work, then I do the same thing coming back, but here is where the trouble starts.  On the way to work, I travel with a young man named Mark, who has the distinction if being the first person that I have met in Scotland without my friend Laura.  He lives in the same estate and works in Murrayfield as well.  So I have someone to talk to in the mornings.  More about him in a later post.  On the way home I am alone and so I have to watch for the stop on my own.  It makes reading more difficult since I get paranoid after the first hour and I am constantly looking up to see where I am.  The buildings are all the color of mud and it is really dark on suburban roads.  The landmark that I use is the a Lidl (german food store) but the building is difficult to see so I always stress out.  It is loads of fun.  Ah well, it gives me a chance to play "Stupid American" again.  

In my last post I was rather disparaging about haggis.  However, I have since had to revise my opinion.  It really isn't so bad.  It is certainly better than black pudding.  The last time I had it, it was cooked traditionally, in a sheep's stomach.  I went to dinner  last night at friends' of Dale and Laura and haggis in phyllo with peppercorn sauce was the first course.  I have to say it was really quite good.  I guess what I objected to was traditional haggis.  The rest of the meal was wonderful we had steak pie that melted in your mouth and apple pie with ice cream for dessert.   Yum.

Stay tuned, gang.  Next up, I work the Scotland vs. Italy rugby game.  

Cheerio for now.

Tina