Um, what?

[lothiriel_1]

I stayed home with the sick fridge today, which is now fixed, to the tune of $265 (ouch...). I'm going to give the temperature a chance to settle for a couple of hours, then I plan to head out to the crappy Food Lion and pick up some staples to put into it (OJ, milk, yogurt - that sort of thing).

Now that the repairman has come and gone, I have the rest of the day to myself. Whatever shall I do with a WHOLE DAY OFF mid-week?

Well, for starters, I tried making a couple of phone calls to Scotland to make some reservations. This was not a successful venture. I looked up the country code, called the number listed, and got the same message each time I tried - that the number I was dialing was not in service for the country I was calling. Huh? I was using the code for the UK, which, as I recall, Scotland is a part of.





Okay - I just figured it out. All numbers in Scotland and the UK start with a "zero" that needs to be dropped when being called from outside the UK. I now have a car reserved for Lewis, a day tour reserved for Skye, and I changed my lodging for Loch Ness/Inverness slightly (so I can make an early bus to Ullapool and the Outer Hebrides). It was fun calling the Aros Centre in Skye to arrange the tour - the guy who answered the phone answered in Gaelic! Feasgar math!

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[littlemissangel.livejournal.com]

Ahhh the mysterious zero! ;-) Aye, I have to add 011-44 and then DROP a zero when I call there. The number seems huge even without the added numbers. Very confusing!