Hello dear friends,
Sammy and I have been so busy with work, finding time to even clean the house has been tough (although Sammy works the same long hours as I do and still finds more time for housework than me......um, moving on). We were so excited last week when Sammy got a temp job at the Borough of Poole Council. Its really helped us settle even more, with both of us going to work, and its great to see Sammy meeting people and learning the weird and wonderful ways of the Brits when at work!
We are also having to, with heavy hearts, adjust to life in Bournemouth without our dishwasher. Dishywishy, if you are out there, somewhere, we miss you so!!!! That aside, Bournemouth and Poole are turning out to be really very nice places. As my Brit friends would say, thats a result! We have not had much time to go down to the beach, but we do plan to very soon. Last weekend we were invited to my friend and colleague Marios's home for a braai. Marios or Maz for short, and his wife Laura put on a huge spread, and you will all be pleased to know, Maz braais only on charcoal fired Weber units. No gas or mini braai's for this man. And he cooked on two seperate fires, one for the vegetarian options and one for the pork and chicken kebabs. At this rate he will be an honourary South African soon enough. It was a great evening and it was nice to get out on a Saturday evening.
This weekend coming, our great friends Jo and Mark are getting married on the Isle of Wight. We are very excited to be going over and joining in the festivities. In fact, Sammy is doing some last minute ironing, whilst I type this blog (again note how I seem to dodge the housework.....) Sammy has just chastised me saying its not something to be proud of, but to be fair, I do some housework, sometimes. (Lots of rolling eyes in the background as I read her what I am posting!). Then in a double whammy for the weekend we are popping up to Walton on Thames on Sunday for our dear friend Denise's birthday. Its a busy weekend for us then! Also the kitties are about to go into their last month of quarantine. We are so excited about them coming home, and plan to buy a scratching post for them to use instead of our legs when they come home. No piccys this time to show you. We will pop some of the house, the wedding and general festivities some time soon when we have a moment. Love as always Sammy and Rich.
Thursday, 28 July 2011
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Richard eats something strange
So the moral of the story most definitely is......oh wait, you haven't heard the story yet. Ok let's go back in time to Sunday evening.
Its been a long day moving the last of our furniture across to Bournemouth (yay!!) and I am on the car ferry from Southampton to East Cowes taking the van back. Sammy is at home unpacking and will leave to collect me from Southampton a bit later. The plan is to drop off the van and catch the Red Jet ferry back to her. But its dinner time and so I queue up along with a number of passengers to buy a nice hot meal on board the ferry. Lets not go into how it cost about a weeks wages to have dinner on a ferry. Bottom line is you are a captive audience, so I grin and bear it. There are lots of nice warm dishes to choose from, and the helpings to be fair, are pretty generous. I don't feel like fish and chips, and I don't feel like baked beans. Needless to stay lots of steaming hot plates of both are going across the pass to hungry passengers. I see the menu has a meatball option and the chaps ahead of me are served generous portions of the meatballs and veggies. Perfect, that's what I shall order then.
When its my turn I ask for meatballs and veggies, pointing at the big plate of meatballs in the Bain Marie. The lady serving the dinner does something very strange though. She asks me if I want meatballs or Faggots. Now for my Brit mates, the name Faggot is not used in SA unless you wish to be very very rude to people who are gay. For my gay friends, please know that I am only going with the facts here! Not too sure what to say I just point to the dish of meatballs and she serves them up. I happen to notice then that there is also a smaller dish with small meatballs in it. Hmmph, I chose well, the second lot of meatballs look like the ones you get at Spur for kids. In a word, small! As Sammy is not with me I choose a quiet table and whip out my laptop to do some work, and eat my dinner. The meatballs are very good, and have a nice onion and parsnip gravy with them. Delish. Something nags in the back of my head though, and I decide to Google "Faggots English food dish". Bad move!!!
It turns out that they are an old English dish made from offcuts of pig meat, pig offal mostly made up of pig heart, lung, liver, kidneys and whatever else they can find, wrapped in an intestine and cooked for a few hours. OMG....... The table next to me must have thought me soft, all green and seasick looking on such a calm evening on the water. Trying not to gag too much I waved frantically at the bus boy to come and take the food away from me. I swallowed the whole bottle of Diet Coke in about 5 seconds flat to wash any remnants of the dish out of my mouth, but now the gas is making me feel even worse. That will teach me a lesson! Somehow I managed to keep from losing my dinner, but I learnt a valuable lesson for people moving to another country.
Back to the moral then. It is simply, if the name of the dish is totally un-pc, then the ingredients probably are too. Ask before you eat. I think I may be off meatballs for a while, can't imagine why..........
Its been a long day moving the last of our furniture across to Bournemouth (yay!!) and I am on the car ferry from Southampton to East Cowes taking the van back. Sammy is at home unpacking and will leave to collect me from Southampton a bit later. The plan is to drop off the van and catch the Red Jet ferry back to her. But its dinner time and so I queue up along with a number of passengers to buy a nice hot meal on board the ferry. Lets not go into how it cost about a weeks wages to have dinner on a ferry. Bottom line is you are a captive audience, so I grin and bear it. There are lots of nice warm dishes to choose from, and the helpings to be fair, are pretty generous. I don't feel like fish and chips, and I don't feel like baked beans. Needless to stay lots of steaming hot plates of both are going across the pass to hungry passengers. I see the menu has a meatball option and the chaps ahead of me are served generous portions of the meatballs and veggies. Perfect, that's what I shall order then.
When its my turn I ask for meatballs and veggies, pointing at the big plate of meatballs in the Bain Marie. The lady serving the dinner does something very strange though. She asks me if I want meatballs or Faggots. Now for my Brit mates, the name Faggot is not used in SA unless you wish to be very very rude to people who are gay. For my gay friends, please know that I am only going with the facts here! Not too sure what to say I just point to the dish of meatballs and she serves them up. I happen to notice then that there is also a smaller dish with small meatballs in it. Hmmph, I chose well, the second lot of meatballs look like the ones you get at Spur for kids. In a word, small! As Sammy is not with me I choose a quiet table and whip out my laptop to do some work, and eat my dinner. The meatballs are very good, and have a nice onion and parsnip gravy with them. Delish. Something nags in the back of my head though, and I decide to Google "Faggots English food dish". Bad move!!!
It turns out that they are an old English dish made from offcuts of pig meat, pig offal mostly made up of pig heart, lung, liver, kidneys and whatever else they can find, wrapped in an intestine and cooked for a few hours. OMG....... The table next to me must have thought me soft, all green and seasick looking on such a calm evening on the water. Trying not to gag too much I waved frantically at the bus boy to come and take the food away from me. I swallowed the whole bottle of Diet Coke in about 5 seconds flat to wash any remnants of the dish out of my mouth, but now the gas is making me feel even worse. That will teach me a lesson! Somehow I managed to keep from losing my dinner, but I learnt a valuable lesson for people moving to another country.
Back to the moral then. It is simply, if the name of the dish is totally un-pc, then the ingredients probably are too. Ask before you eat. I think I may be off meatballs for a while, can't imagine why..........
Thursday, 14 July 2011
Canford Heath
Hello dear friends,
We have not yet taken pictures of the new home to put on the blog. I would tell you this is because we are so busy and haven't really had time. Well, this is true, but the real reason is the house is pretty much still upside down despite the monumental efforts by Sammy to get it sorted so far. We are getting used to the new environment quickly, and settling in ready for the cats. One unexpected bonus of our choice of home is its location. Sammy discovered that we have a large nature reserve next to us whilst out on a run. I took my new mountain bike for a burn through it on the weekend and it is my new personal playground. Its called Canford Heath and I have put some pictures below. I haven't really ridden a mountain bike for two years as most of you will know I focussed on off road motorbikes instead. So the first ride out was a little daunting. I am happy to report the new bike is very good, nice and comfortable to ride and uses the new technology 29 inch wheels (normal bikes use 26 inch wheels). The only difficulty is the slightly overweight and very lazy meaty bit on top of the bike. He needs a lot of work on getting fit again! I would have taken more pictures but I was bleeding from my eyes by the time I took this lot. It was only a 10km ride in the end. My old riding partners (Owen, Mark, Guy, Sarah, Rob E, Garrick, I mean you guys yes!) might snigger at this point, but in my defence I have had to sample a lot of local food and beer in order to make informed choices on eating here on mud island. The three chocolate chip cookies I ate whilst typing this paragraph are only energy for this evening's ride. I promise.
We have not yet taken pictures of the new home to put on the blog. I would tell you this is because we are so busy and haven't really had time. Well, this is true, but the real reason is the house is pretty much still upside down despite the monumental efforts by Sammy to get it sorted so far. We are getting used to the new environment quickly, and settling in ready for the cats. One unexpected bonus of our choice of home is its location. Sammy discovered that we have a large nature reserve next to us whilst out on a run. I took my new mountain bike for a burn through it on the weekend and it is my new personal playground. Its called Canford Heath and I have put some pictures below. I haven't really ridden a mountain bike for two years as most of you will know I focussed on off road motorbikes instead. So the first ride out was a little daunting. I am happy to report the new bike is very good, nice and comfortable to ride and uses the new technology 29 inch wheels (normal bikes use 26 inch wheels). The only difficulty is the slightly overweight and very lazy meaty bit on top of the bike. He needs a lot of work on getting fit again! I would have taken more pictures but I was bleeding from my eyes by the time I took this lot. It was only a 10km ride in the end. My old riding partners (Owen, Mark, Guy, Sarah, Rob E, Garrick, I mean you guys yes!) might snigger at this point, but in my defence I have had to sample a lot of local food and beer in order to make informed choices on eating here on mud island. The three chocolate chip cookies I ate whilst typing this paragraph are only energy for this evening's ride. I promise.
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| Up one of the sandy hills. Target is to ride it in a week or two. |
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| Playground! |
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| Sandy downhill, collar bone breaker. Must avoid this.... |
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| Ok so I saw a squirell, but perhaps was a little slow on the picture |
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| The new beastie. Don't you love the matching grips? |
Saturday, 9 July 2011
Scotland the road trip.......Part three!!
Saturday night, warm and dry outside, glass of good Alto Rouge next to me. Finally some time to finish telling you about our Scotland road trip!
On the way down from Fountains Abbey on a small and twisty B road, a Reliant Robin provided some entertainment as the driver pushed it to the limit to keep up with us. If you don't know what a Reliant Robin is, think Mr Bean. Its the car he always terrorised in his shows. This one was red and Sammy got a picture of him following us. Priceless.
We spent Saturday evening visiting my cousin Michelle and her husband Paul Whitehead. Good people and we enjoy visiting them. Especially since Michelle is a superb cook. The type that is ridiculously talented and equally modest about it. When they come to visit us here in Bournemouth, Sammy and I are going to be under big pressure. I think we will need some time to research and test some recipes before allowing her in to have a dinner. Before dinner they took us all to visit their new stables, just 5 minutes drive away. There we met a motley collection of dogs, horses and what can only be described as a mixture of both.Mr Bombastic Shaggy Fantastic Whitehead the 4th. Or Shaggy for short. Actually he is just a fully grown St Bernard, and he has lived up to the reputation for size. In a word, enormous. But Shaggy actually is very gentle in nature and a slobbers everywhere and seemed to love everyone and the attention! Then there is P Doggy Dog. Or Lady P. Or P Dog. She is a very very very cute British Bulldog puppy. And Sammy is totally smitten. She is super cute even though bulldogs are supposed to be ugly, but P Dog is just too much! Michelle also has some horses including Dennis who is the biggest horse I have ever seen. Must be something in the water there! We spent a great evening at the Whitehead household and taught my aunt to use emoticons in her text messages. I think Michelle may regret that, because she was sending a few rude emoticons within a few minutes of learning! Still she embraced the technology so all good.
On the way home on that Sunday we popped in and saw the boys. They were a bit subdued but pleased to see us and we left feeling like it was really time for them to come home. (That was two weeks ago, we saw them today and they are great and only 6 weeks to go!). We had a busy week getting ready to move and on Monday this week we left the island for the next part of our adventure! I do have some stories to tell, but its late so here are a few photos and we will post the pics of the move and the new home tomorrow I hope! Much love as always Rich and Sam
On the way down from Fountains Abbey on a small and twisty B road, a Reliant Robin provided some entertainment as the driver pushed it to the limit to keep up with us. If you don't know what a Reliant Robin is, think Mr Bean. Its the car he always terrorised in his shows. This one was red and Sammy got a picture of him following us. Priceless.
We spent Saturday evening visiting my cousin Michelle and her husband Paul Whitehead. Good people and we enjoy visiting them. Especially since Michelle is a superb cook. The type that is ridiculously talented and equally modest about it. When they come to visit us here in Bournemouth, Sammy and I are going to be under big pressure. I think we will need some time to research and test some recipes before allowing her in to have a dinner. Before dinner they took us all to visit their new stables, just 5 minutes drive away. There we met a motley collection of dogs, horses and what can only be described as a mixture of both.Mr Bombastic Shaggy Fantastic Whitehead the 4th. Or Shaggy for short. Actually he is just a fully grown St Bernard, and he has lived up to the reputation for size. In a word, enormous. But Shaggy actually is very gentle in nature and a slobbers everywhere and seemed to love everyone and the attention! Then there is P Doggy Dog. Or Lady P. Or P Dog. She is a very very very cute British Bulldog puppy. And Sammy is totally smitten. She is super cute even though bulldogs are supposed to be ugly, but P Dog is just too much! Michelle also has some horses including Dennis who is the biggest horse I have ever seen. Must be something in the water there! We spent a great evening at the Whitehead household and taught my aunt to use emoticons in her text messages. I think Michelle may regret that, because she was sending a few rude emoticons within a few minutes of learning! Still she embraced the technology so all good.
On the way home on that Sunday we popped in and saw the boys. They were a bit subdued but pleased to see us and we left feeling like it was really time for them to come home. (That was two weeks ago, we saw them today and they are great and only 6 weeks to go!). We had a busy week getting ready to move and on Monday this week we left the island for the next part of our adventure! I do have some stories to tell, but its late so here are a few photos and we will post the pics of the move and the new home tomorrow I hope! Much love as always Rich and Sam
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| Reliant Robin, hanging it all out to make the corner |
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| Sadie the Dog and Caden, Michelles youngest |
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| P Dogg!!!! Ok its a bit blurred we will get another picture. |
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| Dennis the massive horse |
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| Think about how tall I am, this is a big horse. |
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| Mr Bombastic Shaggy Fantastic Whitehead the 4th. |
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| No brakes, no steering, not for me! |
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| Taking a walk on the property. Nice. |
Wednesday, 6 July 2011
Scotland....the roadtrip! Part Two
So my seminar went off very well and that was good as it made my day go by quickly. Sammy had breakfast with the team and then went off and spent half a day looking around the city of Glasgow. Glaswegans are very proud of their city as Sammy found out! She took some pictures of the centre square known as George's Square, pictures below.
The seminar ended mid afternoon and we transferred to Edinburgh in a slight drizzle. Actually we were booked into a hotel in Glenrothes which is an hour outside of the city. The drive was very interesting, more amazing scenery and we crossed over the Forth Road bridge. It was the first time I was driving when crossing a suspension bridge and it felt a little strange to me, there was definitely some movement. From the bridge you get a view of the old railway bridge which was for its time a feat of engineering second to none. Looks pretty impressive even in modern times! We checked into our hotel and I had a snooze (man flu), before we had a great evening at the Fettykil Fox with my colleague Mark.
On Thursday morning we headed out early as I had a meeting to attend near Edinburgh with Mark, and Sammy waited patiently in the car for over two hours for me! But I think it was worth it in the end. We said goodbye to Mark and headed into the city to our guest house. Lindsay Guest House is just fabulous. It is a true old B&B, three floors with rooms you can rent with shared bathrooms or like the one we had which was thankfully en suite. Tartan carpets and a small dining room, and warm and hospitable hosts. They gave us a map and suggested we walk into town along the canal. It was still raining a bit and cool when we started walking but cleared up quickly. We were so glad we walked as the canal was fantastic to walk along and lead straight into town. We stopped in at an Italian restaurant for a late lunch and then headed down into the old town. It is really, as most people who have been will tell you, a fantastic place to experience. You can see the castle towering above you on the hill from almost every angle, and the city is bustling with locals and tourists alike. We walked up ancient streets and took in the sights and ended up on the famous Royal Mile. It is a fun street to walk, think major tourist trap meets Scottish history meets beautiful old buildings. Lots of shops as I say, everyone selling tartan everything, bag pipe music blaring and hundreds of tourists walking up and down the street. Lovely, we enjoyed every second! There is a beautiful old cathedral to look at called St Giles, but for some strange reason and we noticed this elsewhere in the city, they don't clean the old buildings which are essentially still covered in soot from the industrial revolution!
Now in Scotland the one thing you have to do is drink whiskey (see part 1) and so we were determined to do a tasting before we left. As it was late afternoon already we chose to do a whiskey tasting and it was great fun. We took the budget tour which only gives one taster, but that was enough for us to enjoy and learn a lot about good single malt whiskeys. We finished off a great day with dinner at David Bann. Its a completely vegetarian restaurant and it was very very good! We took a stroll back to the B&B to work off our dinner, its a bit of a walk back later at night but of course the sun was still up so we enjoyed it anyway!
On Friday we did the true Edinburgh thing and went to see the castle. It was very interesting and well put together as a tour. You can take an audio tour option which is like having a personal guide and Sammy and I spent hours looking at all the old rooms, learning about Scotlands proud heritage and their royal family, and taking in all the oldest parts of the castle. In the afternoon we left the castle and visited Mary Kings Close. It is a little freaky to say the least. Essentially the old city was built on a steep hill with the poorer people living down the bottom end, where literally the sewerage ran into a small loch that no longer exists. Could not have been fun living in those times if you were skint! Over 300 years ago, coincidentally during one of the many plague periods, the city planners wanted to expand the Royal Exchange and with no where to go, they lopped off the roofs of a whole city block, and built over the top of it. This meant that several streets or Closes were covered up, the buildings still in tact and it essentially became an underground part of the city, that was soon uninhabited. The tour takes your through some of these areas under the rest of the city. Its a great tour and a must do if you go to Edinburgh. We had a Mexican dinner in the old city, how random is that?? Two South Africans, in Scotland, eating at a Mexican restaurant served by a Lithuanian and a Mexican. Truly an international spot! We would love some more time in Edinburgh and will definitely go back soon.
On Saturday morning we headed out from Edinburgh along the east coast, down past Berwick Upon Tweed back into England. Its a long drive! Very very scenic at first but once through BerwickRipon in Yorkshire and pop into a place called Fountains Abbey. This is why we love roadtrips because what we found there was hard to describe in its beauty and well awesomeness! I have put lots of pics of it below. We only had an hour there as we were due for dinner in Coventry. It is now down on out must see again list! I am hoping to take some of you with me when you visit (again nudge nudge wink wink)!
Enjoy the pics. In part three we have a fabulous evening with cousins, horses, doggies, Lady P and teach my aunt to use emoticons on her iPhone. We also have some posts coming about our move and things. Patience people! I am a bit slow due to work and other commitments. (I think I say this everytime and so by now you should be aware it may take me a while, but the posts do come!!) Much love as always, Rich and Sam. P.S. there are 85 pics!!!
The seminar ended mid afternoon and we transferred to Edinburgh in a slight drizzle. Actually we were booked into a hotel in Glenrothes which is an hour outside of the city. The drive was very interesting, more amazing scenery and we crossed over the Forth Road bridge. It was the first time I was driving when crossing a suspension bridge and it felt a little strange to me, there was definitely some movement. From the bridge you get a view of the old railway bridge which was for its time a feat of engineering second to none. Looks pretty impressive even in modern times! We checked into our hotel and I had a snooze (man flu), before we had a great evening at the Fettykil Fox with my colleague Mark.
On Thursday morning we headed out early as I had a meeting to attend near Edinburgh with Mark, and Sammy waited patiently in the car for over two hours for me! But I think it was worth it in the end. We said goodbye to Mark and headed into the city to our guest house. Lindsay Guest House is just fabulous. It is a true old B&B, three floors with rooms you can rent with shared bathrooms or like the one we had which was thankfully en suite. Tartan carpets and a small dining room, and warm and hospitable hosts. They gave us a map and suggested we walk into town along the canal. It was still raining a bit and cool when we started walking but cleared up quickly. We were so glad we walked as the canal was fantastic to walk along and lead straight into town. We stopped in at an Italian restaurant for a late lunch and then headed down into the old town. It is really, as most people who have been will tell you, a fantastic place to experience. You can see the castle towering above you on the hill from almost every angle, and the city is bustling with locals and tourists alike. We walked up ancient streets and took in the sights and ended up on the famous Royal Mile. It is a fun street to walk, think major tourist trap meets Scottish history meets beautiful old buildings. Lots of shops as I say, everyone selling tartan everything, bag pipe music blaring and hundreds of tourists walking up and down the street. Lovely, we enjoyed every second! There is a beautiful old cathedral to look at called St Giles, but for some strange reason and we noticed this elsewhere in the city, they don't clean the old buildings which are essentially still covered in soot from the industrial revolution!
Now in Scotland the one thing you have to do is drink whiskey (see part 1) and so we were determined to do a tasting before we left. As it was late afternoon already we chose to do a whiskey tasting and it was great fun. We took the budget tour which only gives one taster, but that was enough for us to enjoy and learn a lot about good single malt whiskeys. We finished off a great day with dinner at David Bann. Its a completely vegetarian restaurant and it was very very good! We took a stroll back to the B&B to work off our dinner, its a bit of a walk back later at night but of course the sun was still up so we enjoyed it anyway!
On Friday we did the true Edinburgh thing and went to see the castle. It was very interesting and well put together as a tour. You can take an audio tour option which is like having a personal guide and Sammy and I spent hours looking at all the old rooms, learning about Scotlands proud heritage and their royal family, and taking in all the oldest parts of the castle. In the afternoon we left the castle and visited Mary Kings Close. It is a little freaky to say the least. Essentially the old city was built on a steep hill with the poorer people living down the bottom end, where literally the sewerage ran into a small loch that no longer exists. Could not have been fun living in those times if you were skint! Over 300 years ago, coincidentally during one of the many plague periods, the city planners wanted to expand the Royal Exchange and with no where to go, they lopped off the roofs of a whole city block, and built over the top of it. This meant that several streets or Closes were covered up, the buildings still in tact and it essentially became an underground part of the city, that was soon uninhabited. The tour takes your through some of these areas under the rest of the city. Its a great tour and a must do if you go to Edinburgh. We had a Mexican dinner in the old city, how random is that?? Two South Africans, in Scotland, eating at a Mexican restaurant served by a Lithuanian and a Mexican. Truly an international spot! We would love some more time in Edinburgh and will definitely go back soon.
On Saturday morning we headed out from Edinburgh along the east coast, down past Berwick Upon Tweed back into England. Its a long drive! Very very scenic at first but once through BerwickRipon in Yorkshire and pop into a place called Fountains Abbey. This is why we love roadtrips because what we found there was hard to describe in its beauty and well awesomeness! I have put lots of pics of it below. We only had an hour there as we were due for dinner in Coventry. It is now down on out must see again list! I am hoping to take some of you with me when you visit (again nudge nudge wink wink)!
Enjoy the pics. In part three we have a fabulous evening with cousins, horses, doggies, Lady P and teach my aunt to use emoticons on her iPhone. We also have some posts coming about our move and things. Patience people! I am a bit slow due to work and other commitments. (I think I say this everytime and so by now you should be aware it may take me a while, but the posts do come!!) Much love as always, Rich and Sam. P.S. there are 85 pics!!!
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| Bathroom in Dakota....Nice |
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| Dakota Room |
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| Georges Square |
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| Robert Burns |
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| Tallest marble staircase in western hemisphere. In the City Chambers |
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| Beautiful roof, similar to Union Station in Washington |
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| Forth Street Bridge |
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| Good pub in Glenrothes |
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| Room at Lindsay Guest House |
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| Still trying to do a spot of work |
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| The Canal in Edinburgh |
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| Church next to the Canal. Tough life! |
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| Yes it was raining, but ten minutes later it was clear and sunny |
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| Real ugly ducklings! |
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| Sammy hiding from the rain! |
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| Houseboat on the Canal. Very eclectic! |
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| Italian done in a SA restuarant style! |
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| Castle from the bottom |
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| Another castle shot |
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| So many pubs! |
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| Doing a deal! |
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| The largest single collection in the world. Over 3400 unique bottles of wizzo. Nice! |
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| St Giles Cathedral |
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| This is the building now over Mary Kings Close |
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| The beaming smile of Sammy in a vegetarian restuarant! |
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| Starter olives were HUGE |
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| Sun going down. Awesome! |
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| Ummmm..... |
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| Entrance to the Edinburgh Castle |
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| Sammy enjoying audio tour |
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| Still inside the Castle! |
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| Aaaand doing another deal. |
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| This picture cost me £1!!! You have to pay for the priviledge..... |
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| On the way to Berwick Upon Tweed |
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| Stunning! |
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| Random Nuclear Power station, on that beautiful coastline, hmmmm. |
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| Railway brigde in Berwick Upon Tweed |
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| Fountains Abbey |
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| Its just an incredible place and huge |
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| We took this to show you how immense the ruin is! |
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| Totally amazing place. It has an amazing presence. |
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| This is where they kept the beer! And thats it, last photo whew! |
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