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The big move... 6 May 2012 | 02:57 am
It has been almost a year since I said goodbye to this blog and now my Scotsman and I are saying goodbye to Scotland as well. After much discussion and even more paperwork, we are moving to Canada. T...
Should auld acquaintance be forgot… 19 Jun 2011 | 11:54 pm
I thought the first line to the popular Burns’ song Auld Lang Syne would be appropriate on this occasion, which marks my goodbye to this blog. After more than two years I am closing up virtual shop. ...
Gullane's black rocks, then cake 5 Jun 2011 | 11:36 pm
In the gentle world of East Lothian, it is easy to make a trip to the beach stretch out the way the sun laps from the dunes to the shore in the late afternoon. Be as lazy or adventurous as you like, ...
Deep fried pizza. Get it in ye. 27 May 2011 | 05:32 am
This is a pizza supper. Take a pizza. Fold it half. Plunge it into hot oil until maximum saturation is reached. If you dare, unfold the greasy pizza and fill it with chips until you are have created a...
The long walk of foodie torture 24 May 2011 | 03:31 am
A wee while back I undertook a stroll through areas of Edinburgh known as Morningside, Bruntsfield and The Meadows. My guidebook was once again the Pocket Mountains Edinburgh edition of 40 town and c...
The Hound of the Wellingtons 3 May 2011 | 05:56 pm
The folks at the Ness store in Edinburgh have created a tartan canine out of boots. And I love him.
Isle of May: Highlights 1 May 2011 | 08:38 am
The Isle of May will make you think of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Lost World. On the island’s western side, sheer cliffs reach up from the waters of the Firth of Forth. Noisy guillimots - around 30,000 of t...
Kirkcaldy to Dysart: The longest short walk 26 Apr 2011 | 12:23 am
Looking at a map, the walk from Kirkcaldy to Dysart is short. The two are so close in fact that Dysart is considered another suburb of Kirkcaldy and if you stick to the roads the two communities flow ...
Daytrip to Kirkcaldy and The Links Market 19 Apr 2011 | 12:39 am
When I first arrived in Kirkcaldy I was underwhelmed. My first impression was that of a practical town, a mix of the occasional charming stone building, horrendous apartment blocks that were all the ...
Sunset over Blackness Castle 18 Apr 2011 | 09:33 am
Few words tonight my bloggy friends. Just a fine Scottish sunset falling behind the stones and harbour of Blackness Castle. Often referred to as “the ship that never sailed,” Blackness juts out into ...