As a part of my job running the Social Innovation Camp, I’ve been going up and back to Scotland, meeting people, drinking approximately 600 cups of coffee a day (it seems, at times), and getting people to submit ideas for our upcoming Camp in Edinburgh.
I made it to Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen, Inverness, and Edinburgh. Some of those places more than once.
By the numbers:
– Weeks of Call for Ideas: 8
– Weeks spent traveling: 7
– Days spent in Scotland: 15
– Longest consecutive days at home: 4
– Pre-6:30 AM mornings: 6
– Public sector bodies contacted: 14
– Workshops run: 14
– Largest attendance: 28 (Glasgow)
– Smallest attendance: 2 (Inverness)
– Meetings missed: 1
– Judges found: 5
– Best meal: The Mustard Seed, Inverness
– Worst meal: The Ramada Encore, Inverness
– Shortest trip: Inverness (25 hours on the ground)
– Latest train: East Coast, Edinburgh->London (~3 hours)
– Loudest train: ScotRail Aberdeen->Edinburgh (stag do)
– Best breakfast: Edinburgh (http://www.edinburghfirst.org.uk )
– Number of haggis for breakfast: 6
Best use of odd bits of a building: Hootenanny in Inverness:
Best signage fail: On the street in Glasgow:
That best breakfast in Edinburgh:
The still-lit sky, 10:30PM in Inverness in May:
Student humour in Glasgow: That’s James Watt with a cone on his head.