Just getting round to putting up a few photos of a walk we did earlier this month at New Lanark World Heritage Site. The area is sat on the River Clyde and used to be cotton mills and housing for…
March 2014
Just added a few photos from March including a trip home to see friends and family for my birthday, walking in the Pentlands and visiting The Royal Observatory Visitor Centre. We rounded the month off by visiting the Anatomical Museum…
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…
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…
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…
Beecraigs Country Park Walk
As the weather was nice and still on Saturday (26th) we headed 20 miles west to Linlithgow to have a walk around the Beecraigs Country Park – a walk that we’d found in our little Edinburgh walks book we got…
January Snow
So…rather than celebrating Margie’s birthday with the rest of the Jamieson’s down in Glastonbury as planned, we’re still here in Edinburgh due to the snow. Although we got to the airport fine yesterday, our flight to Bristol was delayed further…