A while ago we’d booked a couple of LivingSocial deals for B&Bs in Yorkshire & The Lakes so decided to tie this in with my birthday..so on Sunday 15 March we drove down to Yorkshire, taking in the sights of…
Start of 2015 :-)
Just a bit of an update since being back in Edinburgh! On 25th Jan we headed Westwards to Ayr to visit Robert Burns’ birthplace (coinciding with his birthday)..the National Trust have built a Museum in the small village where you…
Christmas 2014
I’m back to work today after a lovely month-long Christmas break that involved lots of socialising, eating, drinking, baking, games and a little bit of exercising! I feel like we’ve really made the most of Christmas this year – starting…
Christmas Shopping in York December 2014
Mum and I had booked ourselves a 3-night stay in York from 9-12 December to take in the sights and do some Christmas shopping 🙂  After a 2.5hour train trip down to York I met Mum who had flown over to…
Jamieson weekend in Bath November 2014
For the last weekend in November we headed down to Bath to have a Christmas weekend with the Jamiesons. Glenn and I flew down to Bristol and bussed our way over to Bath (about a 40min trip), where we met…
London 7-11 November 2014
We’re recently back from a busy yet really enjoyable short break in London…here’s what we got up to in a nutshell! We headed down on the Friday night and stayed in Earlsfield (just south of the river) with Glenn’s friend…
Orkney 4-5 November
I was lucky enough to get a free trip up to Orkney to give careers advice to the students studying at the International Centre for Island Technology…although I was only there for 1 night I managed to get in a…
Dalkeith Country Park 24 October
We haven’t posted anything for quite a while so thought I’d upload the photos of a walk we did on Friday around Dalkeith Country Park. Dalkeith is a small town about 8 miles south-east of Edinburgh that we’ve visited a…
A weekend of Fringe Festival fun and Fife!
Heading in to soak up the Fringe Festival atmosphere had been on our to-do list all month and we finally got round to it on Friday! We were fortunate enough to be given 2 free tickets to watch a guy…
Peebles & Glentress Walk – 7 August
After last month’s trip down to Peebles we were keen to return and take a bit more time to explore the town…so we found a nice looped walk that took us through the main street and then (in the opposite…