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…
Today (24th Jan) we headed out of Edinburgh for a bit of a tour of Fife. For the first time since moving here we ventured northwards over the Forth Bridge to Fife, heading west to the small village of Culross.…
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…
Here’s a few photos from a lovely 2 hour walk we had last week. The little town of Roslin is about 7 miles south of Edinburgh home of the now famous Rosslyn chapel featured in Dan Brown’s Da Vinci Code…
Time for a bit of a catch up! Over the last month or so we have experienced the Edinburgh Christmas lights and markets, had the first light snowfall, had a visit from Mum for a Christmas shopping weekend, been home…
On Friday we took advantage of another deal voucher we’d bought, this time for afternoon tea at the popular ‘Loopy Lorna’s’ – a lovely tea house just up the road here in Morningside (http://www.loopylornas.com/). The deal consisted of a whole…
So we heard Ed Sheeran was playing in Edinburgh this week but was fully booked…he was on our ‘must-see’ list so we got ourselves on Gumtree and managed to buy 2 tickets that were going spare (for double the original…
After a busy week getting my first assignment handed in, getting assessed while taking a careers session in a school and Glenn taking a trip home to the IOM for business meetings, Sunday 11 November saw the All Blacks take…
After a day and a half staring at a computer screen trying to do my essay, Glenn and I headed to Leith on Friday afternoon to check out the seaside port. We’ve heard really mixed reports about Leith – think…
Been a busy couple of weeks work and play wise – last weekend Glenn and I headed down to Chester by train for me to attend Sel & Martin’s wedding, and for us both to meet up with the Jamieson…