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  • Edinburgh – City of Stag Parties

    Edinburgh – City of Stag Parties

    Walking up to Church Street and spotted ‘flesh’ in the window of 56 North. Had to take the photo …

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  • Edinburgh’s Cost Effective Tram lines

    Edinburgh’s Cost Effective Tram lines

    Why waste billions of £s laying miles of tram lines when all you need is a few metres!

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  • Myra the Border Terrier

    Myra the Border Terrier

    Sitting waiting for people to arrive, I look right to see a small dog approach from the horse yard. Next, I  look left and the little devil is sitting next to me, looking at where I’m looking, up the hill. I get out my phone and the ‘bitch’ has decided to rest her paws on [...]

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  • The Big Knicker Shop

    The Big Knicker Shop

    Yes Ladies, you can still get them, for all shapes and sizes of bums. In a small town called Dollgellau near the Royal Hotel is a relic to the past. Ronnie Barker would have been proud to have this outlet as a compliment to his corner shop. Inside were functional clothes for all weathers and even [...]

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  • The Three Peaks finally done!

    The Three Peaks finally done!

    It took a while but I finally managed to climb all three of the mainland summits – Scafell, Ben Nevis and Snowdon (in that order). I would need to get a calculator out to approximate the number of days it took, but who cares. Anyhow, climbing Snowdon (Yr Widdfa) was relatively easy and could have [...]

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  • Thou Shalt Not Play

    Thou Shalt Not Play

    Now this doesn’t seem fair at all! The park has everything a kid wants – swings goalposts, grass and lots of space. So why can’t it be used on a Sunday? Because that’s the day is called the Sabbath in this neck of the woods and you’re not meant to enjoy yourself. They’ve only just allowed [...]

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  • Paisley Close

    Paisley Close

    On the Royal Mile, aka the High Street in Edinburgh there are many, many closes (small alleys) which cut through the main apartment buildings, in both sides of the streets. Above each Close is a name plaque and sometimes a little bit of history. But one Close has the most decorative stonework plus a scroll [...]

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  • Campagnolo – Genius!

    Campagnolo – Genius!

    At the top of a very, very steep pass in the Feltre area is the village of Croce D’Aune. Once you’ve got your breath back and look around you’ll see locals sitting under the canopy of the only hotel left open on the pass. Also around you is a tourist office, car park and some [...]

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  • Neist Point

    Neist Point

    A very strange thing indeed. You walk onto the shore and all around you are piles of rocks, little cairns constructed carefully, often tediously, just to be different from its neighbour. And there are hundreds of them all scattered around the point. I realised that when people came to Skye, had travelled for hundreds of miles [...]

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