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St Andrew’s Day 2013 in Edinburgh

4 December 2013 Andy

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…

Edinburgh – I Do Like To Be Beside The Sea!

23 February 2013 Sarah

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…

Standing on Arthur’s Seat

21 February 2013 Andy

We had originally planned to undertake this walk the previous day, but as we often do changed our plans to suit our mood. So it was now a fresh cool Tuesday morning when we left Edinburgh Tune Hotel bound for Holyrood Park. Not before we stopped off for a coffee at Jacob Artisan Bakery though. A great little place and highly recommended. We started the walk from the car park near to the village of Duddingston and headed up Jacob”s…