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St Andrew’s Day 2013 in Edinburgh

St Andrew’s Day 2013 in Edinburgh

Friday Evening Edinburgh is one of our favourite cities. We had already visited earlier this year, which you can read all about here, here, here, here, here …and finally here!. However the opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s national day, St Andrew’s Day 2013, with the locals gave Sarah and I another opportunity to venture north. Major tourist attractions open their doors for free on this day and we hoped to join the throngs. Things didn’t go quite as planned, but once again we had…

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Coast and Castles South Day 7 – Edinburgh to Dunbar

Coast and Castles South Day 7 – Edinburgh to Dunbar

Coast and Castles South Day 7. This morning was a little sad as there was a parting of the ways. Three of the team of seven were finishing their trip in Edinburgh and four of us will continue back to Berwick upon Tweed over the next couple of days. It was rather strange with their just being the four of us as we cycled along! To start our day we headed over to Edinburgh Castle. They were setting up a stadium…

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Coast and Castles South Day 6 – Innerleithen to Edinburgh

Coast and Castles South Day 6 – Innerleithen to Edinburgh

Coast and Castles South Day 6 – Our final day of our official Coast and Castles South tour (though some of us will have a couple more days after this when we return to Berwick via the Coast and Castles alternative route) brought yet more glorious sunshine. We climbed into the Moorfoot Hills. From the top of the hills there are some splendid views of Edinburgh. Lunch was taken by the roadside before we started entering the outlying urban areas of…

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Coast and Castles South itinerary

Coast and Castles South itinerary

Three months to go before our first cycling tour of 2013, our Coast and Castles South itinerary is taking shape. There will be seven of us cycling the tour – Andy P, Sarah, Andy S, Des, Neil, Debbie, and Tracey. All, apart from Tracey, have cycled tours together before. We welcome Tracey as the new member of the team. We are sure she will prove an excellent addition to our team and will have a great time with us. Sustrans…

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Edinburgh – I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea!

Edinburgh – I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea!

Having spent the morning looking around in Edinburgh, we drove out towards Musselburgh to a place called Fisherrow and parked at The Harbour. We followed the signs for the John Muir Way which is a coastal path which goes all the way to Dunglass, which was way further than we were going that afternoon! We actually were going from Fisherrow to Cockenzie. We passed the air cadets base. Behind there was a large concrete arrow on the ground. There was…

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