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The Man in Me
... I’ve had a chance to visit in my past week here. Others include The Red Squirrel, Brauhaus, Brewdog, and The Last Drop. I availed myself of my first Haggis experience at The Last Drop and was pleasantly surprised. There’s no shortage of pubs and eateries throughout the city and I very much look forward to sampling the best of what the local cuisine has to offer.
I’ve been making fast friends as well. Most ...
Edinburgh, Highlands and Whisky Distillery
Am just unable to say no to Scotland.. keeps pulling me back!!!
This time, I was able to visit Edinburgh and take a Highlands and Whisky Distillery Tour for a day, along with Sanjay from London, and his friend Paaventhan from Edinburgh itself.
As usual, we took the overnight bus journey from London, reaching at around 6 in Edinburgh.
We had about 2 hours before the one day trip would depart.
We made the most of it, ...
Royalty and Witchery
... pie. Great place to go on a budget.
We still had some time to kill in the afternoon and I wanted to use up the rest of my British bills. So we decided to do another ghost tour. This time it was the popular Mary King's Close. A close is basically an alleyway. This particular tour showed how life was for the people who could afford to live above ground. Though the whole close was underground (the ...
T minus, erm, one hour
Well, this bodes well… It’s 3.30am, I’ve just finished packing and clearing the flat of the vast amount of debris left over from 18 months of living here - and I’m supposed to get up at 4am. Not really worth going to bed for 30mn, is it? Maybe this is what is meant by ‘roughing it’? Oh, and I don’t seem to carry off the ‘rucksack look’ terribly well; no surprise there I hear ...
Welcome to the hell house exit strategy fro edinbu
... care how he got his fortune but just that he did and he gambled it all away.....some parts still remain for the Duke Of HAMILTON but most of it gone to pay debts. We also learnt that we tend to get people to 'assist' in undertakings in a tactful way and then go along at the back to see wha tthe outcome was or possibly going to be....essentially fencesittes and always looking for the safest side to be with, which changed constantly, this way we hamiltons ...
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