Edinburgh
Filed under Uncategorized • 13-01-2007 •
I spent the last three days at a sales conference in Edinburgh. I stayed at the Sheraton Hotel. The window of my room looked out at the castle. There were skateboarders in the square below. The flight from Bristol took an hour or so. Above the clouds, the sun shone like a new silver coin. We passed over mountains dusted with snow, and lakes like slabs of brushed steel.
The first night we went to a restaurant off Princes Street. I spent the evening talking shop with colleagues from our Norweigian and North Amercian offices. Then we went back to the hotel bar until four in the morning.
The second night we had a black tie meal at a stately home near the Forth Bridge. There were some tiger heads mounted on the walls as trophies. I stroked one when the security guards weren’t looking. It was softer than I’d expected.
The flight back was rough. Lashing rain and gale force winds on takeoff. I sat next to the MD. He slept through the whole thing.
Tags: Edinburgh • Personal • work
