Edin Back & Gingling All The Way

Day: 263 & 264

Towns / Cities Visited: 176

Countries Visited: 30

Steps Taken Today: 23,894

Steps Taken Around the World: 4,277,472

Arising to another clear blue Maltese morning, we gathered our things and made the ten minute, heavily laden trudge to the airport. No part of me wanted to leave; I had grown fond of Malta more than I had ever expected to. Still, progress called, and I consoled myself that our flight would deliver me back to another of my favourite places, Edinburgh. The trip went fairly smoothly, check-in was a breeze, but the gate had no seating, so there was much standing around waiting to board. Four hours in the air and we were landing, passing through customs with possibly the most cheerful airport employee I’ve ever had the pleasure of dealing with, and stepping out to be greeted by a change in weather which can only be described as jarring and quintessentially Scottish, cold wind and rain. The kind of weather which sings to the soul of someone like me who lives for being wrapped up in big warm jacket while the air paints my cheeks red with its biting chill.

Luckily for us, there was a bus which ran from the airport all the way out to Ocean Terminal in the Edinburgh suburb of Leith, which is, unsurprisingly, right near the ocean. On top of…