The rest of Edinburgh...

Tuesday, 27th April to Saturday, 29th - (Big Catch-up)

The rest of this week started with me going in to the city alone to do the banking transfer. I missed the train, and stood for a while on the local station, but it was great, and quiet. Found the bank easily enough but they wouldn't transfer the money as I didn't have an HSBC account. So, I paid cash into the required account and all was done.

Got back in time for a simple lunch, and then later we had the rest of the savoury mince we'd made. My pain in the side was still giving me gyp, so we had separate beds, and both got better sleeps.

On the Wednesday, we went out to St Andrews to see the golf course, but the access wasn't good as they were doing roadworks everywhere, and so we went into town and had a coffee, bought some fresh made sandwiches, and then a bit of a walk 'round. Then drove down to the beachfront, which is very pleasant, but a little breezy.

After St. Andrews, we drove back towards Edinburgh via a garden which we'd seen was open, called Cambo. Stunning place, and they have rooms as well, and beautiful plants for sale!!! (The other thing we can't bring back) Had our sandwiches before we went into the garden, and spent quite a while there. Beautiful walled garden, with lots of really interesting bulbs and plants, and of course with the climate they have, everything was looking really nice. The only problem with being here so early in the season is missing what will be a magnificent display of roses.

The trip back is littered with small towns and many roundabouts, and a different aspect of the bridges over the Firth.

On the Thursday, we went back to the city and Lee spent some time in the National Library of Scotland and found some references to some of her forebears, while I had a nice walk up and own the Royal Mile and spent money!!! Lee was longer than we both thought she might be, but I couldn't get in to the reading room to find out what had happened to her, because I hadn't registered! After the library we went and had lunch at a place called 'The Filling Station', and got a really nice BLT wrap. Quite tasty, and made a change from the toasted kind.

Then, back across the bridge to the apartment, and Friday back across to get some more supplies for the trip up to Aviemore, in the Cairngorms.