Last night we took the train from Edinburgh up to Stonehaven, right on the North Sea coast. During the train ride I had a long conversation with a Scot on everything from American football to Osama bin Laden and NATO. He also recommended a few places to eat over the three days that we're here, which we took him up on last night. Stonehaven is in the Mearns, a region of Scotland that is often unnoticed because it is neither the Borders or the Highlands. It is however quite pretty (our hotel is right on the harbor), and very working class, as everyone who doesn't work in the service industry or for the oil companies is dependent on fishing for their livelihood. Tonight we're having dinner with Andy Hall, a photographer who will explain more to us about what it means to be from the Mearns. I'm looking forward to getting more of a sense of the emotional attachment that people from this region have to the land and country.
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