10-22-2018, 05:16 PM
Edinburgh...harrumph! The Palo Alto of Scottish cuisine.
Spend some time in Glasgow, the town with a "Catholic" football club (Celtic) and a "Protestant" football club (Rangers). Our commissioned study of the Glasgow storm and sanitary sewer systems required a hurry-up, six day per week schedule...which lasted until the very first Saturday when the fans rolled out of the pubs, taking over the streets on the way to the stadium after 4 hours of "prep." At least we got most of our gear back and only one of our crew needed medical attention (after someone dropped a cherry bomb into the open manhole in which he was working.) I think most of our traffic cones ended up as head wear or megaphones in the stadium. Our American crew, mostly Southern boys, survived mostly on cornflakes and eggs for breakfast, take-out Indian food for a lot of the time. God only knows what our Scots crew members ate.
(And, yes, I'm sure things have improved a lot since then. How could they not? I actually have a lot of affection for the place, but it was the only European city I've ever seen that still had sizeable parts of the central city open, free of structures decades after the Luftwaffe did its thing on the Clydebank. I'd go back for a nostalgia tour)
Spend some time in Glasgow, the town with a "Catholic" football club (Celtic) and a "Protestant" football club (Rangers). Our commissioned study of the Glasgow storm and sanitary sewer systems required a hurry-up, six day per week schedule...which lasted until the very first Saturday when the fans rolled out of the pubs, taking over the streets on the way to the stadium after 4 hours of "prep." At least we got most of our gear back and only one of our crew needed medical attention (after someone dropped a cherry bomb into the open manhole in which he was working.) I think most of our traffic cones ended up as head wear or megaphones in the stadium. Our American crew, mostly Southern boys, survived mostly on cornflakes and eggs for breakfast, take-out Indian food for a lot of the time. God only knows what our Scots crew members ate.
(And, yes, I'm sure things have improved a lot since then. How could they not? I actually have a lot of affection for the place, but it was the only European city I've ever seen that still had sizeable parts of the central city open, free of structures decades after the Luftwaffe did its thing on the Clydebank. I'd go back for a nostalgia tour)