Heat, Wave Goodbye

So that's it, this post comes to you from my hotel room at Edinburgh Airport where this morning I was able to finally lay my head down for a rest at 10am after having flown through the night to Glasgow from Toronto and made my way east to the capital.  As well as time for some much needed sleep, I also feel refreshed (a bit) after a shower before getting ready to meet up with the Carpathian Aid Team to fly to London tonight and on to Timisoara tomorrow morning.

The journey was on the whole, not too bad except for the poor baggage service in Glasgow.  Heading to Toronto you can take your buggy right to the plane door and leave it, and it's brought to the door when you arrive.  The same happens at Glagow except that on the way back nobody can be bothered to bring it the short distance from the hold to the plane, and rather you have to walk for 10 minutes at 5am with both kids and all four of our hand luggage.  Not the welcome home we may have liked, but there you have it!!

If this it the voice of Mr Negativity then forgive me as it's probably due to sleep deprived crabbititis, but as for our Captain's cheery message on our decent that the temperature in Glasgow was a reasonable 14C, Whaaattttt?  We left Canada basking in a blazing 44C, I'd call a drop of 30C anything but reasonable.  However, the prolonged heat isn't necessarily welcomed in Canada as they have interfered with aging power station equipment and caused some power cuts around the city.  Traffic lights went off when we approached them the other day, which makes for a hair raising experience at the intersection.

We can't believe our trip there passed so quickly, we really didn't feel ready to come home just yet.  We had a fantastic last night with Chris & Sarah, where we walked some ot he streets in Toronto's Downtown Core, went up the CN Tower and shared an amazing meal at the Beer Bistro (a favorite for Chris, and now for me too).  The food was excellent and so was the massive selection of beers, all matched and recommended to go with each food choice.

There's so much more to talk about, but I must go now and get ready to get over to the airport for the beginning of the next stage of my summer adventures.