Paisley & Glasgow; Wednesday, 07 November, 2007

Heading out from the ETAP I walked the 15 minutes or so up to the airport and checked-in. I stopped for a brief bite to eat in the restaurant before going through to departures, discovering that the large box of name badges that I was taking with me to the conference I was attending were “dangerous articles”, walked back to the BA desks, checked my name badges in (thankfully (?) there had been problems with the baggage belts and my bag was easily retrieved) and then went through to departures.

The flight left a couple of minutes late, as they were waiting for the breakfasts to be loaded, given what a cooked airline breakfast is like, I would have preferred if they had left on time with the breakfasts left on the tarmac.

Whilst the plane claimed to have landed at Glasgow airport, by the time I had walked all the way through to the baggage reclaim belts it felt more likely that it had landed in Edinburgh! I got out to the bus stop just in time to miss the bus to Paisley. Thankfully, I only had about 10 minutes to wait for the next one, but I felt that so-far things had not been auspicious.

However, bad things do come in threes. I’d had the hotel problem, the name badge problem and now missing the bus, and that would appear to have accounted for all my bad luck. Thankfully I’m not superstitious, otherwise the fact the hotel checked me into room 101 would probably have pushed me over the edge!

The main purpose of coming up to Scotland had been to attend a conference, and for the next two days, that was what was going to be taking up all my time.