After an epic aiport hopping session, Julian arrived into a cold, rainy Edinburgh at 1am. He was with us for 5 days and Charles Jackson joined us for 2 of those. We did our best to show him all the cool points of Edinburgh despite a shocking bout of grey, rainy weather (completely unexpected in sunny Scotland).
Firstly, we (Anthony and girlfriend Michelle, Jo, Steve, Mark, Sylvia) took him up the Pentland hills to the dry ski slope and beyond. The ski slope is an intriguing idea - apparently it hurts a lot when you fall over though. Count me out! Julian reckons he's going to make his fortune putting one on the Port Hills.
As well as extreme mountain walks, we included the tourist thing in his itinerary - castle, double decker bus, museum - and of course, the free fudge on the Royal Mile... Julian calculated that the fudge being made on the table in this photo is worth NZ$700! If the ski slope doesn't work out this could be a good backup option.
Firstly, we (Anthony and girlfriend Michelle, Jo, Steve, Mark, Sylvia) took him up the Pentland hills to the dry ski slope and beyond. The ski slope is an intriguing idea - apparently it hurts a lot when you fall over though. Count me out! Julian reckons he's going to make his fortune putting one on the Port Hills.
As well as extreme mountain walks, we included the tourist thing in his itinerary - castle, double decker bus, museum - and of course, the free fudge on the Royal Mile... Julian calculated that the fudge being made on the table in this photo is worth NZ$700! If the ski slope doesn't work out this could be a good backup option. We culminated the action-packed schedule of social appointments with a traditional Scottish dinner - Charles & Julian piled down haggis and black pudding with nae a complaint, and even asked for seconds.
4 comments:
Awesome, Never knew there were so many people I knew knocking around Europe. Seriously, send some over to Greece to inspire me to get up Mt Idha before I die of the heat!!!
Hope you're having fun! :)
Enjoyed finding out about my offspring's hospitality to eachother, and since then, we've seen all the pics on Julian's computer. Amazing how many places Julian went to on his Slackademic Conference in Berlin. Lots of interesting places in Scotland and Ireland. It was described as an MRI Conference. Does that mean Mountain-climbing/Rambling/Imbibing? Sylvia's Dad.
'Slackademic'. That's brilliant!
Scottish Tui ad:
A sudden bout of "unexpected" grey, rainy weather. Yeah right.
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