Edinburgh to Dumfries
August 6th 1995
The next day i had to go back to Dumfries, as we were heading south again on Monday. As it was a Sunday, there was only one bus and i felt like a wander around before i caught it. So i said goodbye to Ian's family and went into town.
I didn't fully have my bearings, although i didn't wander too far off course. But my rather roundabout route took me past Cyberia, which was an internet cafe. I looked at it for a while and then went in. I had time to spend half an hour playing around with this stuff. I didn't have anything better to do and there were a couple of things i needed to do when i could get internet access of the sort they provided there. I had an internet account myself, but the sort of account i had meant i could only use it for email and newsgroups. Even in those days, the internet had a lot more services available than that, but i had to use a different system to get to them - and this was an opportunity.
After i left Cyberia, i went to the bus station. I'd had less time than i thought i had and it was getting close to the time when the bus was due to leave. But i hadn't had anything much to eat that morning and i was about to take a four hour bus trip, so i thought i'd better quickly check out the cafeteria. I had a large plate of microwaved chips and baked beans (which were actually surprisingly good) and left Edinburgh after a visit of less than twenty four hours.