Having been invited to help celebrate Mark Grimshaw’s (a friend from uni) 30th birthday down near Blackburn we took the opportunity to add on a stop-off in The Lakes on the way down 🙂 Thwarted slightly by the weather…heavy snow…
St Abbs Coastal Walk
It’s been a while since we last posted…not that we haven’t been up to much just that we haven’t got round to writing about it! Anyway, one of my new year’s resolutions is to keep the blog more up to…
Barcelona – October 2013
We’re not long back from a lovely long weekend in Barcelona 🙂 Temperatures were around 20 degrees C so it was nice escaping the cold and being able to wander around in t-shirts and flip-flops! We stayed in the centre…
John & Emily’s Wedding – Ireland
We’re just back from a long weekend break in Ireland. We flew over to Dublin on Thursday 8th August and had time to visit the Guinness Storehouse before training it down to Killarney where we stayed for the next 3…
Edinburgh & Hibs Match
After an interesting meeting at the Hibernian Learning Foundation into the work they do with locals to increase employability, I was lucky enough to be given 2 complimentary tickets to the Hibs vs Motherwell match on 4 August – first…
Kent & London – July 2013
We finally got some hols booked for the summer…the first being a trip down to see Glenn’s bro and girlfriend in sunny Kent 🙂 The sun shone for most of the trip…which included a day in London, a visit to…
Carlops & North Esk Reservior Walk – 30 June
This was a fairly straightforward 7km loop starting in the small village of Carlops which is in the Pentlands, and just 15 miles from Edinburgh. The walk took us on a path shadowing the main road and then we took…
Castle Terrace Restaurant – 25 June
Castle Terrace Restaurant is a Michelin star restaurant located just next to the castle in Edinburgh; with the strapline ‘from nature to plate’ it prides itself in providing a Scottish produce based menu. Glenn and I were lucky enough to…
North Berwick 16 May 2013
Taking the opportunity while the sun was shining, we took a picnic and set out in the car towards North Berwick which is located on the east coast, about 45 mins from Edinburgh. We took a bit of a loop,…
Dean Village
On Thursday (9th May) Glenn and I got the bus into town for a walk around Dean Village, described as ‘a tranquil green oasis on the Water of Leith, only five minutes walk from Princes Street’. The walk was one…