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Highland Adventure – August 2013 Day 5
Today we planned to take it easy especially after our long day of adventure on the Isle of Lewis. A late start to the day saw us having our breakfast at 09:00 and then a long chat with our friend Val...
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Highland Adventure – August 2013 Day 6
06:00 on a nice sunny dawn on Friday 16 August 2013 saw us up bright and early. This was the final day of our Highland adventure. This was the day I would tick off my bucket list, three places, Dunnet...
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2013 Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo – 17 August 2013
We had set off from North Kessock at 07:00 to make our way home, well to my home in Livingston. If you have not read our Highland Adventure see the previous blogs to this. Having just had 5 hours...
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CairnGorm Mountain – April 2013
As we approach the onset of winter and the curtailment of days out with The Intrepids and camera it can only mean time to catch up on the Blogs and on the pictures taken during the Spring/Summer. I was...
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River Cruise – Elbe – May 2013
As I looked out of my living-room window into the dark enshrouded garden, listening to the wind blowing through the trees, my mind turned back to the Viking River Cruise trip Susan and I took down the...
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Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh May 2013
With the temperature at -2.5 centigrade and being confined to the house at present I once again look back at the trips and outings undertaken in Spring and Summer 2013. At time of typing I have taken...
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Feel The Burn – Terror at the Pool!
What happened to 2013? My last blog entry was in May re the Intrepids trip to Glasgow and the Kibble palace, after that nothing, did the year end unexpectadly. Nope, sad to say I found myself involved...
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Intrepids Take a Walk and Explore Royal Mile
The Royal Mile, Edinburgh consist of four co-joined streets running from Edinburgh Caste (Castle Hill) to Holyrood Palace (Canongate). The route is Castle Hill; Lawnmarket; High Street; and Canongate....
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Intrepids – Greyfriars to Edinburgh Castle
Feeling hemmed in by four walls on Tuesday 21/1/2014, I grabbed my camera and headed into Edinburgh for a walk around. Alas due to circumstances I was on my own for this trip as my two fellow...
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Intrepids Visited Craigmillar Castle September 2011
Craigmillar Castle:- the Intrepids paid a visit there on 18th September 2011 when the weather was mixed, being sunshine, windy and showers - in other words typical good old Scottish weather. The walk...
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Intrepids – Old Town to New Town and Back
Sunday 21st January along with my partner Susan we had arranged to meet two fellow photographers for a stroll around the old town. A meet and greet so to speak. However, due to inclement weather they...
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Intrepids Meet Historic Edinburgh Tours
Tuesday 28th January 2014 the day The Intrepids met with Historic Edinburgh Tours otherwise Sid and Walter (intrepids) met Paul (Historic Edinburgh Tours). We had met two years ago on a Hairy Coo bus...
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Hidden Gems In the Open – St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)
I classified this as a Hidden Gem in The Open as St Mary’s Cathedral is sited off the beaten tourist routes. Palmerston Place is located in the West End of Prince’s Street. Starting from Scott’s...
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Edinburgh Photo Trail – New Town
In the midst of time in the 90′s two parties agreed a joint project to create two photo trails in the city of Edinburgh. Two trails were created Old Town and New Town, both trails started outside the...
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Stirling Castle – The Royal Apartments
With the recent (4 months) of inclement weather here in Livingston I have not been able to get out and about with my camera as much as I liked. That plus a minor illness, which has made me semi...
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Retirement an Adventure? Life Is Though
Where does the time go? Where did the time go? Here it is 24th June and 700 year ago an important event occurred in Scottish history, the Battle of Bannockburn. However, that was 700 years ago and...
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Is there Life after Retirement?
What a question! It has been three years since I “retired” from the rat race. Three years of lazing about living the life of the idle rich. I wish. During the past three years I have travelled,...
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Roses and Robins
Those (in the UK) of a certain age will remember a TV advertisement with the catch phrase “Roses grow on you” by the late Norman Vaughan. It would appear that my garden has been overtaken by roses...
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Some Days Are Diamond…..
After last week-end out with The Intrepids I was reminded of the song sung by the late John Denver – Some Days are Diamond, the chorus goes like this: “Some days are diamonds, some days are stones...
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