Edinburgh - Things That Go BANG In The Night

Jonathan's journal entry for today states simply: "last night was noisy and bad".

A construction crew was working all through the night in the Mall that adjoins the hotel. They got really noisy around 2am and just as I had my hand on the phone to yell at reception... the fire alarm went off. We trooped outside with the other guests and if I thought Edinburgh was cold during the day it had nothing on the temperature at night! After the fire department cleared the building we headed back to bed and about 30 minutes later just as we were dropping off the construction crew started back up. But hey, enough of the wah wahs and anyway it gave me an reason to try out my earplugs :)

The next morning we caught a taxi to the airport and had our first chatty taxi driver experience.
We flew BMI who do a use a very painless self check in system using kiosks. This meant there were no queues unlike the other airlines. After a 2 hour flight to Heathrow we landed 25 minutes early and took the tube to our hotel in Earls Court, The Mayflower. We had booked this on a last minute hotel website after we sensed some tension with Simons flatties.

By this time our clothes had got a bit smelly so we spent the afternoon at the local laudrette watching clothes go round and round.

Later we met Simon and Toby at Leicester Square and had a pint in a pub before having a quick dinner in an Itallian Restaurant in Old Compton Road.

After dinner it was time for the long awaited 'Spamalot'! It was hilarious, a mix of the Holy Grail and lot's of new bits with catchy songs like 'Find Your Grail'. We had balcony seats which were up in the clouds and on a steep angle above the stage, it didn't matter though as the show was designed really well to be visable from above.

After the show we headed back to our hotel. Our room has very lavish furnishings but is so tiny was can't actually open out suitcases, we have to take turns opening them on the bed! It does have a nice view however and a cute little balcony. The last two hotels are both 4 star but the one in Edinburgh was more like a 6 star in comparison to The Mayflower.