Can this weekend thing continue?

I seem to have had a run of great weekends lately. Although cut short, I’ve been in Elgin in Scotland for a wedding this weekend. I flew up from Gatwick to Inverness on Friday morning for the wedding on Saturday. I’d forgotten it was a bank holiday today, so I booked a return for Sunday instead of Monday. Doh! Wish I had realised as it would have been good to spend some more time up there.

The wedding was for some friends from Cambridge, and although it was quite a long distance to go, I’m really glad I went. Its weird seeing a bunch of people you know and associate with one location all in another location. I don’t mean at the wedding especially, but when you’re walking down Elgin High Street its funny just bumping into people you know. It’s a bit like you’ve been living somewhere for a while and already settled in!

The wedding service was really nice, and the reception was great: good food, good speeches, good drink, and good fun!

So I had a great time. Although there wasn’t much of it spare, I managed to get a look ’round Elgin. It seems to be a nice place, and the surroundings are much nicer than mine down south. Think I need to pay Scotland a proper visit some time - seems to be loads to do.

The other thing that struck me was how friendly everyone was. I stayed one night with the groom’s cousin (who I think deserves a badge for “Most helpful person in the world”), and was then going to stay the groom’s parents the night after the wedding (though this plan changed slightly at the last minute ;-)) That’s another example of how hospitable they all were - thinking about putting people up the night after going through all the wedding stuff.

Anyway, I’m having tomorrow afternoon off to do car-related stuff, so got to get on with work today. No rest for the wicked