Last week I was fortunate in being invited to spend a few days in Dalgetty Bay, which is near Edinburgh.
My friend Sheila, proved to be an excellent hostess, acting as companion, chauffeur and cook.
Sheila took me on trips to The Borders and The Cairngorms, the scenery was amazing. Sadly the weather wasn't good which meant that I didn't see things at their best.
On the trip to The Borders we passed through such places as Galashiels and stopped at Peebles where we took in the shops and found a fantastic art gallery called The Breeze, we were particularly impressed with the Russian artist Anna Razumovkaya whose work was displayed there. Her figures are painted so beautifully this combined with her use of colours made them outstanding.
The stopping place on the trip to The Cairngorms was Pitlochry, famous for it's fish jump.
We visited Edinburgh twice, on my first day we just had a general look around. The second we walked the Royal Mile seeing Edinburgh Castle from the outside, The Witchery which is a famous haunted pub, the museum the Holyrood Kirk, Holyroodhouse and The Queen's Gallery, these last four we explored. I learnt the legend of King David 1 of how he thought he was to be gored by a fierce stag but was saved by plucking a holy rood (holy cross) which had appeared from, between it's antlers. In thanks he had built an Abbey, the ruins of which are behind Holyroodhouse.
Sadly my visit came to soon to an end.
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| Edinburgh Castle |
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| A Scottish Piper |
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| A second Scottish Piper |
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| The Royal Mile with the museum in the foreground. |
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| The Queen's Gallery taken from the law courts. |
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| Holyroodhouse |
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| Tower of Holyroodhouse, note uniform of employee. |
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| Fountain in forecourt of Holyroodhouse. |
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| Inside the Holyrood Abbey ruins |
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| 2nd View of the inside of Holyrood Abbey |
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| Sir Walter Scotts Memorial |
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| A view of the Forth from the bridge. |
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