- The M8 through Livingston is now tree-lined, with no sign of the buildings behind. I remember when all of it was scrubby shrubs and boxy buildings.
- The A174 between Saltburn and Whitby is perhaps the world’s most gratuitously wiggly road in the Z-axis.
- You can actually get an amateur radio magazine in most newsagents: Practical Wireless.
- Driving to Fala to join the A68 from North Berwick has extreme XY wiggliness.
- S. Luca of Musselburgh make very good ice cream, and their purple Mini-based truck is quaint.
- Either the routing database from the UK is weird, or the Garmin nüvi 760 can’t route for toffee.
- Eyemouth is much more fun than I expected. Oblò is a great wee restaurant.
- With a £20 O2 SIM and an unlocked GSM phone, I had calling ability for the trip.
- Kirkintilloch has a marina! Southbank Marina is quite spiffy.
- The Quayside in Whitby has fab fish and chips.
- I actually heard someone use the expression “fandabidozi†in a non-ironic setting in Glasgow
- Yum yums aren’t as good as I remember them being.
- Walking barefoot on a Scottish lawn is an exquisite pleasure.
Pictures later.