Edinburgh

We’re all struggling to stay awake and none of us likely to win but wanted to send you a few photos and a video (for Diane at work). Finally arrived after too long not being in a bed to a beautiful. Felt so much like home - in that it has the same weather and temperature as Palmerston North- even got fairly wet walking back from Sainsburys with the biggest raspberries I have ever seen (all gone) and a half bottle of rose from cotes de Provence that was calling my name. We pretty much landed and just kept going and took ourselves on a hop on and off us (except we didn’t do any hopping off until we’d done the circuit. Then contributed to the economy with a few bits and bobs and had well deserved haddock and chips for lunch (Barb didn’t eat her peas) then next minute bag pipes, men in kilts, flags from all the counties, Ukrainians (no I don’t know why) and 300 hundred horse all marched up the Queens Mile - turns out today is the nine hundredth anniversary of Edinburgh - and we wandered up to listen to speeches and bugger me if it wasn’t Princess Anne giving one as well. The photos are fairly self explanatory- biggest meringues I have aver seen. Shit I’m tired. I’ll add the photos in a sec they’re on my other device.Read more