Louisa May Alcott

Louisa May Alcott
An American writer

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

First stop. . . . Dumfries

As in Dumfries & Galloway, tho this is the town of Dumfries, not the county of D&G.  I have to say, Air France Business Class (Affaires) completely ROCKS.  Ability to rest, wonderful crew members (one even looked like French President Nicolas Sarkozy) and outstanding food and wines. 

We're staying at the Glencairn Villa B&B, which is an older Georgian-era home that's been turned into a B&B.  We passed through Gretna Green on the way up here, but didn't see anyone getting a hasty marriage.  Just sheep and cows.  Sheep and cows.  More sheep and cows.

Tomorrow we'll go into town and see if we can find a voltage converter that takes 3 prong American plugs, instead of 2-prong, which is all I brought.  And fix up mom's credit card because it doesn't look like dad's call to the bank to tell them we're in the UK registered. 

But for now we're just tired.  Picture of the Best Western in Dumfries, opposite the train station.  Not too many Best Westerns that look like this.

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