Omar Khayyam Indian Restaurant Archives

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…