Edinburgh - Day 2 (April 27)
I am loving every minute of being in Edinburgh! So many memories - childhood, school, college, holidays, etc. It is like reading my own memoir!
We found a lovely place for breakfast, The Painted Rooster. A great breakfast roll, bacon, and a latte!! The food here is totally delicious, and I guess for 3 weeks there won't be any lasting efects. Lurpak butter, mmmm, the best! After breakfast we took off along Princess Street to the Vodafone store, and established connection. We walked back up to the Royal Mile and down to the Grassmarket as Robin wanted to check out Hawico Cashmere, a shop in the Grassmarket selling the most beautiful cashmere sweaters. Alas, the styles Robin liked didn't come in the colours she liked so we walked out empty handed. We climbed up the numerous steps to the Royal Mile and back down to Princess Street, and walked further down to the Botanical Gardens. Are you getting the idea of the hills in Edinburgh?? It is a lot like St. John's Newfoundland only much bigger; about 480,000. We spent a couple of hours at the Gardens wandering through amazing trees, plants from around the world, and colourful rhodedendrons, and other plants. All had names, but botanical names, which didn't mean a lot to us!! At 2:00 p.m. I met Iain Hope, one of our companions on our 2007 South America trip. It was wonderful seeing him again and meeting his girlfriend Nikki. After we first met him, Iain joined the Overlanding company Oasis that we travelled with and spent the next 4 years leading and driving crazy tourists like we were over South American and Africa. Now he trying to settle down in Edinburgh. "Settle Down"...how do you do that when your heart "yearns to wander". Maybe there comes a time when you just know. Let's stay in one place for a while.
We headed back to our flat, did a quick change, and headed out to meet Ian (got it Iain my friend, and Ian my cousin) in the flat, literally the next street over in the Dean Village. We had appies with him, then set off for the restaurant Robin had chosen for the evening. He took us via a guided tour on the Water of Leith Walkway, and the Dean Village, in the rain, and we arrived at the restaurant One20, on Dundas Street, almost exactly on time, but dripping wet! Thankgoodness I took my raincoat with me. It kept me warm and cosy. What a treat. This was a small, very modern and comfortable, cosy, restaurant. The service was great, and the food was simply delicious. I ate the chicken/mushroom pie and it was simply amazing!! Plus of course, some great wine from Serbia, coffee, and desert for some. Then we saw Katie on to the 23 bus, which came in to the stop right outside the restaurant almost exactly on time! Ian led us home through a maze of beautiful garden squares surrounded by consisent Georgian architecture back to the Dean, our flat, and very shortly thereafter, bed.
I am loving every minute of being in Edinburgh! So many memories - childhood, school, college, holidays, etc. It is like reading my own memoir!
We found a lovely place for breakfast, The Painted Rooster. A great breakfast roll, bacon, and a latte!! The food here is totally delicious, and I guess for 3 weeks there won't be any lasting efects. Lurpak butter, mmmm, the best! After breakfast we took off along Princess Street to the Vodafone store, and established connection. We walked back up to the Royal Mile and down to the Grassmarket as Robin wanted to check out Hawico Cashmere, a shop in the Grassmarket selling the most beautiful cashmere sweaters. Alas, the styles Robin liked didn't come in the colours she liked so we walked out empty handed. We climbed up the numerous steps to the Royal Mile and back down to Princess Street, and walked further down to the Botanical Gardens. Are you getting the idea of the hills in Edinburgh?? It is a lot like St. John's Newfoundland only much bigger; about 480,000. We spent a couple of hours at the Gardens wandering through amazing trees, plants from around the world, and colourful rhodedendrons, and other plants. All had names, but botanical names, which didn't mean a lot to us!! At 2:00 p.m. I met Iain Hope, one of our companions on our 2007 South America trip. It was wonderful seeing him again and meeting his girlfriend Nikki. After we first met him, Iain joined the Overlanding company Oasis that we travelled with and spent the next 4 years leading and driving crazy tourists like we were over South American and Africa. Now he trying to settle down in Edinburgh. "Settle Down"...how do you do that when your heart "yearns to wander". Maybe there comes a time when you just know. Let's stay in one place for a while.
We headed back to our flat, did a quick change, and headed out to meet Ian (got it Iain my friend, and Ian my cousin) in the flat, literally the next street over in the Dean Village. We had appies with him, then set off for the restaurant Robin had chosen for the evening. He took us via a guided tour on the Water of Leith Walkway, and the Dean Village, in the rain, and we arrived at the restaurant One20, on Dundas Street, almost exactly on time, but dripping wet! Thankgoodness I took my raincoat with me. It kept me warm and cosy. What a treat. This was a small, very modern and comfortable, cosy, restaurant. The service was great, and the food was simply delicious. I ate the chicken/mushroom pie and it was simply amazing!! Plus of course, some great wine from Serbia, coffee, and desert for some. Then we saw Katie on to the 23 bus, which came in to the stop right outside the restaurant almost exactly on time! Ian led us home through a maze of beautiful garden squares surrounded by consisent Georgian architecture back to the Dean, our flat, and very shortly thereafter, bed.
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