jamesq | Scottish Adventures 21

The trip has been uneventful for the most part, but I did have some serendipity. I got to Glasgow Queens Street station and was trying to find directions to the airport. I was pretty sure it was the 905 bus, but I wanted to make sure. I asked at the ticket counter (where they confirmed that I was right) and the woman next to me (Rita from Saskatoon!) suggested that we should share a cab. Turns out she was on the same flight as me.

So we shared a cab, as well as some stories of our trips. £10 for the cab was a little more expensive then the £4 for the bus, but it was also a lot less aggravating.

I found the whisky I wanted before the gate. Didn't buy it there though because there was a duty free shop in the restricted zone. Of course, the duty free shop didn't have it (they carried it, but it was out of stock).

One of the in-flight movies was Astronaut Farmer, which I've seen before. I'm a little surprised to see it on the flight though, as there is a crash sequence in it and I thought airlines didn't like movies with those. They ended up cutting about 90% of the sequence out, leaving just enough to string what happens before to what happens afterward.

Virginia Madsen is one sexy woman. I will take that away from this otherwise fluffy movie.

I will occasionally look out my window and see something strange. On the bleak Greenland landscape of white ice and grey rock I will see a splash of electric blue. This isn't the natural blue of glacial ice, I suspect it's the blue stuff they put into chemical toilets. If that's the case, then there's some airplanes out there with leaky toilets.

Missed one of my mission101 goals - didn't actually have a deep fried Mars bar while I was out there. In the grand scheme of things, I should probably mark that in the "win" column.