Last couple days in Nottingham – Flying off to Edingburgh

Nottingham — By Ryan on February 11, 2010 1:00 am

Day 10-12 – Nottingham:

It was mainly a rainy day in Nottingham and with the upcoming proposal coming up I decided to stay in most days and just work like a crazy person. Nick and Nina worked during the day so it was just me and Deisel the cat, chilling like a pair of villains around the flat. The last day before my departure however we got some recording studio time in Nottingham for me to do the voice work for the SARF investor proposal. Great fun was had that night as it was my first time in a professional setting like that trying to not sound like a dork while telling people about SARF and why they need to be investing in it. We were there for an hour and a bit and had a ball, in the end I even came out sounding alright.
As is the case with most of my last days in one city I didn’t end up sleeping, Nick and I plowed through the night and cranked out some great work, him going through the audio files from the recording session and me doing up more and more documentation on the proposal as well as organizing the team. There was a little Assassins Creed 2 in there to show me just how pretty a game could be. At 4am or so Nick, being the kind soul that he is, drove me down to the main bus terminal where I hopped on for a ride to London central. I lucked out as well getting on where I did as two stops later the bus driver had to turn away passengers with seasons tickets as the season tickets don’t mean a reserved seat unless you go online and reserve it for that particular bus.
There was much contemplation between Roland and I about where I should be getting off in London and which tube route I should take to get to the airport. We decided in our infinite wisdom to get off a little early to avoid the central underground stations which, at that time, are completely mental. It was a sound plan until the next day I started going through Google maps to map out my walking route from the bus stop to the nearest underground station. After my incident in NYC of wandering the streets for an hour I decided to scrap the plan and just get off at the central bus stop which was right around the corner from the Underground station and even then I still missed it the first time After heading down into the underground and being instantly surrounded by the thriving mass of humanity going to and fro I found the ticket booth and got instructions from a friendly Scotsman on how to get to my station.

As predicted it was fairly mental down there as I was at one of the main stations however I had seen much worse in Montreal, which is what I was imaginging in my head, so I was pleasantly surprised when there was actually room on the first train that came for me and my luggage. The rest of the Tube ride was just as painless, 8 or so stops west and then hopped off that train to get on the Picadily line heading into Heathrow. All in all it was probably 25-35 minutes of train riding and in the end I was dropped off at the Airport smoothly and for a mere 4 quid – what more could I ask for? With plenty of time to spare I mosied on over to the BMI checkin area, got that all sorted and breezed through the chilled security on domestic EU flights. A few minutes in the lounge and I was heading off to Scotland on 12:05 flight, set to arrive befor 14:00.. Yay life!


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