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It was a misty day in Edinburgh today. The forecast was actually for it to be misty and muggy, but the mugginess didn’t materialise and it was just misty and cool instead. We decided to head up...
Being a May bank holiday weekend today was grey and overcast, although noticeably warmer than recently. We picked up our hire car and after lunch headed south-west of Edinburgh to the tiny village...
Sadly it was time to say goodbye to the Tulloch Castle Hotel this morning. Just like yesterday we had an ambitious itinerary of places we wanted to see, this time on the way home, but we started by...
Yesterday afternoon we drove north from Edinburgh to Dingwall, where we were staying for the weekend at the Tulloch Castle hotel. Possibly dating back as far as the 12th century, the earliest part...
There was a change in the weather today, with sunshine and bright blue skies, something rather unusual after weeks of chilly temperatures. We set off for Falkland in Fife, but stopped on the way...
There was an open day at Winton House today, so we headed out towards Pencaitland in East Lothian. Having been lucky with the weather yesterday, there was unfortunately no sign of the sun today in...
Tonight the Red Bull Hill Chasers came to Edinburgh, a multi-disciplinary uphill sprint involving mountain bikes, BMXs, road and fixed gear bikes. The 170 metre course ran up the cobbles of...
Various factors have conspired to stop us getting out and about over the past few weeks, not least the unseasonal weather which led to a trip north being postponed due to the roads being blocked...
After a few weeks of relative inactivity – due in part to spending the first couple of weeks of the year in Russia, then the Six Nations – we headed down to the Moorfoot Hills today, with the...
Last night Edinburgh got its first decent snow of this winter, probably around 5 or 6 centimetres. It had started to melt by the time we set off today, but there was still plenty of the white stuff...
With a strong, chilly wind blowing today, we struggled for the motivation to go outside. But eventually we did, heading south into the Borders. We had hoped to have a look at Drochil Castle, a...
With Christmas approaching comes the inevitable trip to Tillicoultry for Christmas shopping. In an attempt to balance out the shopping with something more interesting, we stopped off at a couple of...
This weekend was Doors Open Day, a fantastic annual event organised by the Cockburn Association where buildings not always open to the public open their doors for all to see and explore. We started...
Every year the end of the The Edinburgh Festival is marked by a firework display at Edinburgh Castle, and it could also be said that this marks the end of summer in Edinburgh. Previously we’ve...
Continuing with our car hire experiment, we tried a slightly different approach this weekend and hired a car from Hertz for first thing Saturday morning in the hope that it would get us on the road...
Continuing in our roles as tour guides to our Russian visitors, today we drove along the East Lothian coastal road to Dirleton Castle. Set in the picturesque village of Dirleton, the castle is...
For the second time this year we have Russian visitors staying with us, on this occasion my girlfriend’s brother and niece, so today we decided to go on a bus tour to show them around Edinburgh....
Tonight we attended the Edinburgh Military Tattoo at Edinburgh Castle. With relatively good weather during today we were hopeful that it might continue into the evening, but rather predictably the...
Yesterday was the first day of The Edinburgh Festival Fringe, so today we headed into the centre of town to see what was going on.It was a beautifully sunny day, so we decided to make the most of...
We were over in Glasgow this weekend, meeting up with friends last night for a mini pub crawl (taking in BrewDog Glasgow and The Finnieston) and dinner at The 78 Café Bar, a great bar with a...
We’ve been meaning to visit Thirlestane Castle for some time now, but for various reasons hadn’t managed until today, when we finally made it there.Begun in the late 16th century by John Maitland,...
With good weather promised today, we headed north over the Forth Road Bridge into Fife, on our way to St Andrews.We stopped for lunch in Cupar, and while there sought out the site of Cupar Castle,...
On a grey day in Edinburgh today, we headed to a place that perpetually basks in an amber glow.My girlfriend gave me, well, us, a whisky tasting masterclass at The Scotch Whisky Experience for my...
The Olympic Torch came to Edinburgh today, on its progress around the British Isles ahead of the London 2012 Olympics next month. So we headed into the centre of Edinburgh this evening to see what...
Today was the main celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, with Queen Elizabeth II celebrating 60 years on the throne of Britain. While the majority of the celebrations were in London, here in...
We headed east and south down the A1 today, aiming to have a quick look at a castle of which I didn’t think much remained, and then a visit to a picturesque harbour. As it happened, the castle...
Celebrity-spotting was the name of the game today, as we had seen that Colin Firth and Nicole Kidman would be filming scenes for the upcoming film The Railway Man in North Berwick, and my...
The Haining estate in Selkirk was our destination today, a country house and the associated designed landscape of its grounds. Gifted to the people of Selkirk in 2009 by the owner, Andrew Nimmo...
Suffering from an extreme bout of indecision today, we left it a bit late to go anywhere too far. So instead we went to visit a few sites just outside Edinburgh that we’d been meaning to visit for...
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