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  1. I didn't have to make a point of eating it. It seemed like it was on every menu at every restaurant. In fact it was on the menu at the first place I went for breakfast when arriving in Edinburgh. I was hungry from flying all night and had to kill most of the day waiting for my room. My understanding is its kind of mass produced these days using artificial stomachs. Haggis at 12 o'clock
  2. Haggis is delicious
  3. I've already flown 25k miles this year on vacations. So far not a single delay and that includes 3 international trips and going both in and out of Heathrow. Don't let a few bad stories dissuade you
  4. Change a few things and this could be Austin Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  5. I was there a month ago and did DFW to LHR to EDI. Smooth sailing but also not summer. You should get to use the egates for passport control. YouTube it so you'll be prepared. Easy and fast. Security was a bit more of a cluster fuck. Your domestic will most likely be a satilite. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  6. 100% this. I will never ever understand Americans desires for houses.
  7. He's not just talking about moving to a state or liberal/conservative city where politics lean one way or the other, which is what we've had for eons. He's been talking about basically two United States with completely opposite laws and governments. Something we have never seen like this and what looks like is coming.
  8. Jeffrey Gundlach has been predicting this for a while now. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  9. Was just in Edinburgh in May. Only 3 nights. Solo traveler so different than a family trip in that I enjoy doing a few touristy cultural things and then sitting in pubs and talking to people which I did a ton of vs doing the Clark Griswold. Stayed at the Hilton right on the Royal Mile. Nice hotel. Took the tram in from the airport and walked the 15 mins to the Hilton. Agreed on some damn good restaurants and pubs. My favorite restaurant was White Horse Oyster on High St. Very modern. Reservations needed. Favorite bar was White Hart Inn as it claims to be the oldest. Worlds End Pub on High St had very good food as well. Tiny place. If you want an upscale place try Devils' Advocate. I had 4-5 people including several Scotts and a friend who lived there tell me to skip the castle so I did. Calton Hill is free and the views are just as good. I did do the Palace which I enjoyed thoroughly. I did a one day Scotch and highlands tour. Our guide was fantastic and absolutely hilarious. Went to some small towns and then to the Dewars Aberfeldy Distillery. Obviously not one of the most prestigious but it was still pretty good. Depending on kids and love for Harry Potter Greyfriars was worth a walk and the pub right outside had a really hot goth tattooed bar maid that was right up my alley.
  10. Close https://www.beyondbeds.com/bedfan-bed-cooling-fan.aspx?pmc=bedfan&gclid=Cj0KCQjwlK-WBhDjARIsAO2sErTRmve_eNEeeqtstRgTrq6bVM2AtTdx5oX-SEvOncmcS7DyVPBScmQaAg1qEALw_wcB Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  11. 67 at night here. I also have 4 fans. Including a bed fan that blows air under the sheets. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  12. Throw me in the "can't wait to move out of this state" I've got 5 years. Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  13. Well I went pre-covid and they have time slots so I didn't really experience any line per se other than the 20 or so people in my time slot. Maybe its different now and its just a mass ques. The Van Gogh museum also had entry times. I took the Eurostar directly from London to Brussels and then a night out in Bruges and then from Bruges to Amsterdam by way of Thalys. Someone was in my reserved seat so the train attendant just told me to sit with three 20 something female Euros wearing tshirts with no bras. Was a very enjoyable train ride
  14. I've spent well over 30 years in total living here and I never hear it pronounced like that unless it's someone trying to be cute so let's just end this stupid debate.
  15. I say move around as much as possible to give your kids diverse experiences. I also wouldnt minimize train travel. Seeing the countryside go by and having a chance to slow down and interact with your kids would be special IMO Also disagree. Could be overhyped but for kids that age the architecture and the museums alone I think are worth the visit. During the right time of year its a fantastic city to wander around. If your kids have read The Anne Frank Diaries. The ability to actually experience the house and putting real life to a book is pretty amazing.
  16. I'm on it Sent from my Pixel 6 Pro using Tapatalk
  17. Downtown SA is exploding. I assume we are getting a ton of flow over from those looking to escape CA etc who would normally move to Austin but simply cant afford an urban lifestyle in Austin or Dallas. Southtown has been going for several years now and Lavaca has been for probably 10 years. But now everything is gentrifying. Arsenal is already well into its modernization. Clay Street has a sweet condos. S. Presa has started. When you look at S. Presa it's bordered by King William and Lavaca so it's just logical for it to be next. Even Dignowity Hill which is east of the Alamo dome is going too. That area is still pretty raw and was one of the highest crime areas in SA for decades. IMO it's going to take a while if forever for SA to become as sterile and insufferable as as the other big metros in Texas. Too much culture built into this city and by far the only really unique large city in Texas in the first place. You're average white snowflake transplant that would have no issues moving to segregated city like Austin is going to have a bit of a culture shock trying to move into a condo in Dignowity Hill today once they realize their neighbors are minorities and there is a crack house on the same street. One realtor friend told me that a ton of the development in the general downtown area is from developers from Austin/Dallas etc who are finding the land super cheap relatively to other metros and are driving the development. And the architecture kind of looks like it IMO. Not sure if that's true. My game plan is to move downtown in two years when my son leaves the house. Then it will just be me and my daughter for a few years so a 2-3 bdr will be fine. Something I can lock up and leave for 4-6 months at a time. Once she's gone I will either purchase or lease a place in the central valley of CR and just go back and forth.
  18. The Brazilian mafia
  19. Lenglet is done per Spurs official
  20. Unless you fly directly into the city you are living or doing business in and you are walking right out of the airport you are going through security in the US. And when you leave the US you are doing security again. Btw if he/she is Jordan Belfort yacht rich they aren't even flying domestic and doing security or immigration and using MP with the masses in the first place.
  21. If it did the same thing I wouldn't have had to wait for all the people I've traveled with who used mobile passport. You must have gotten fisted in the global entry interview.
  22. Like I said before it really doesn't do much for the Mexico or Belize trips. If all I did was go to Mexico once a year I probably wouldn't bother. Esp if you are landing at a small intl airport like Bergstrom or Hobby on a 73. Throw in that those flights are seldom banked due to being on a similar time zone. It makes a massive difference when you are coming off of one of 3-4 supers at large intl airport like SFO, ORD, DFW, JFK etc from Europe or Asia where the airlines bank multiple wide bodies at the same time. You can easily get 6-7 supers landing within an hour of each other. That's well over 1000 passengers all at once.
  23. It wasn't domestic security, I did that about 5 mins after leaving immigration. It's a completely automated passport control. Much like they have leaving the Netherlands. Zero human interaction. Perhaps they are just testing it in areas of Heathrow with less traffic. I have to assume a relatively small number of passengers arriving at Heathrow are boarding a domestic flight. The bulk are either transiting or entering London. Lol they even have a youtube of it
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