Mooching in Edinburgh
A good breakfast, and met the other owner, Ian, who shared his opinions at great length as we ate our breakfast.
Lorraine and I off to Portobello Promenade which is a stretch of Edinburgh seaside. Cool and sunny this morning. A strange quite evocative place, with dogs and dog owners scampering about on it, we watched a dog steal food out of a family's bag on the beach before making off. Quite a few OAP homes there too, so quite a few folks progressing in chairs or on walking frames getting their fresh air for the day. We sat outside a cafe and had cups of rapidly cooling coffee.
Then back into Town, where the weather was still clear and sunny. A mooch in the beautiful Princes Street Gardens, and then into a gallery where among other paintings we saw the famous Monarch of the Glen, which I always thought a bit of a cheesy image, but was quite impressive in real life. Walked up to the Grassmarket where we bought Sian a present for her birthday, then popped randomly into a cheap cafe where we got cheap and random service. Then home again to Kew House, rather tired after lots of walking, and then in the evening walked past various tiny Trick or Treaters ghouling about to collect Sam and get a cab, now that the rain had started to the Canny Man's, which is a booze Narnia, where we met Jade drank and had a restrained drink and a light dinner.
Below Princes Street from the bus on a sunny day. Portobello Promenade. Pat Norrie tells me his sister has a green van that serves coffee and snacks there. I looked this up afterwards and her van is famous. In Princes Street Gardens, the lovely Ross Fountain, and a recent elephant sculpture placed there after a scandal over the way babies ashes were disposed of that affected hundreds of families. Grassmarket, and inside The Canny Mans.
Lorraine and I off to Portobello Promenade which is a stretch of Edinburgh seaside. Cool and sunny this morning. A strange quite evocative place, with dogs and dog owners scampering about on it, we watched a dog steal food out of a family's bag on the beach before making off. Quite a few OAP homes there too, so quite a few folks progressing in chairs or on walking frames getting their fresh air for the day. We sat outside a cafe and had cups of rapidly cooling coffee.
Then back into Town, where the weather was still clear and sunny. A mooch in the beautiful Princes Street Gardens, and then into a gallery where among other paintings we saw the famous Monarch of the Glen, which I always thought a bit of a cheesy image, but was quite impressive in real life. Walked up to the Grassmarket where we bought Sian a present for her birthday, then popped randomly into a cheap cafe where we got cheap and random service. Then home again to Kew House, rather tired after lots of walking, and then in the evening walked past various tiny Trick or Treaters ghouling about to collect Sam and get a cab, now that the rain had started to the Canny Man's, which is a booze Narnia, where we met Jade drank and had a restrained drink and a light dinner.
Below Princes Street from the bus on a sunny day. Portobello Promenade. Pat Norrie tells me his sister has a green van that serves coffee and snacks there. I looked this up afterwards and her van is famous. In Princes Street Gardens, the lovely Ross Fountain, and a recent elephant sculpture placed there after a scandal over the way babies ashes were disposed of that affected hundreds of families. Grassmarket, and inside The Canny Mans.
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