Too bad I'm a poor grad student

[stacer]

...or I'd be on a plane to Scotland this weekend. Travelocity has tickets to Glasgow on BMI (arguably the best airline I've ever flown, but maybe it's just because it was a transatlantic flight--they feed you every 2 hours, give you about 15 movies to choose from, etc) for only $223. Yes, that's less than it costs to fly me home to Illinois. Or I can fly to San Diego from Providence for $193. Depends on if you want the beach or the Highlands, I guess. Neither of which I have any money for right now, but I can dream.

Of course, right now is the time to enjoy New England weather. As someone was saying the other day, we get about 2 months of really nice weather a year, so enjoy it while you can!

[Entsuropi]

Don't go to glasgow, its full of uncouth barbarians. Go to Edinburgh instead!

[Mistress of Darkness]

Hey, better 2 months than the 3 weeks we get here in Utah.

Oh I want to go to Britain so bad! I just bought What a Girl Wants (Colin Firth in leather pants, need I say more?) and "London Calling" keeps running through my head.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

I want to go hang out some more in DUblin, myself. 3 days with 10 other people didn't give me enough.

[Entsuropi]

Dublins a nice city. Especially nice for me, since i tend to stay at my relatives for free

[stacer]

What are you talking about, 3 weeks? Izzy, you walk around in constant sunny weather and you tell me you only get 3 weeks of good weather? Please. I was wearing sweaters in rainy weather till mid-June, then was bombarded by 95% humidity for the last 2 months. Finally, the humidity's down, the sun is out, and, well, it feels like Utah does most of the summer.

Flying into Glasgow, to answer your question, Entropy, is always cheaper than flying into Edinburgh. You can always go somewhere else after arriving at the airport, you know. Personally, I'd head back to Campbeltown before I'd head to Edinburgh. But I do want to see more of Edinburgh when I have money to spend--see the castle, go shopping, eat out, etc. There's a lot of interesting other interesting stuff to see there, I'm sure, but I don't know a whole lot about Edinburgh. I spent most of my time in Edinburgh last time in the National Archives, doing research.

[Mistress of Darkness]

Hmm. You're right. It just doesn't feel that way to me because I grew up in So Cal.

[stacer]

I have a friend who just moved to San Diego, so I know from his description what you mean--constant nice weather year-round, not too hot and not too cold. It all depends on your perspective.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

"It's always 72 in San Diego!"

Also sprach a friend of mine when he was trying to get me to move to S.D. for grad school a couple years back. The maddening thing was, every time I checked, he was right.