Can it really be over two weeks since I got home from Thailand? Judging by my fast-fading t-shirt tan and increasingly infrequent bouts of beach-set, work-based day-dreaming, I guess it can. While Thailand is one of the more ‘westernized’ of South East Asian countries, there was still so much that amazed and confounded. The frankly […]
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Wee Jaunt: A guided tour without the cringe factor
One thing I’ve never done in my nine years as a resident of Edinburgh has been to take a guided tour of the grand old place. That’s because these tours are usually led by irritatingly boisterous am-dram types dressed badly in jester/wench costumes. But I broke my duck on this front at the weekend, when […]
Past its prime…
Today me and R went for a Lothian Bus trip down to Portobello. I’ve been playing football in this part of town for years without really venturing beyond the floodlit astroturf. While I’m sure I’ve been to the seafront as a child, today was the first time since I’ve lived in the city that I’ve […]
Saltire over San Remo
DSC_0507, originally uploaded by njmitchell. Seems mad now, but only yesterday I was in San Remo on the Italian Riviera, at the end of our holiday in the south of France. While I was waiting on my better half choosing something from the local market (mercato), I spotted this ‘saltire’ of jetstreams in the sky. […]
A few pictures of Oban & Ullapool
This weekend past I went for a short break in the Highlands with Rebecca. A ‘staycation’, if you want to be all buzzwordy about it. We drove up to Oban first, the main harbour town on the Scottish West Coast, then carried on northwards to the more isolated fishing village of Ullapool, away up near […]
A few pictures of Berlin
I’m currently bunged up with a cold, no doubt brought on by a combination of a few too many Berliner biers and the German capital’s even-chillier-than-Scotland autumn weather. But the trip was worth a few sniffles, because I had a great time exploring the place. The few remaining scraps of the Berlin Wall, the site […]
A few pictures of Croatia
I’ve been on holiday for the past week. We (me and my girlfriend Rebecca) went to Croatia for a week. It was a great trip: flawless weather, gorgeous scenery, friendly people, boats, islands and seafood, lots of seafood. We flew to Zadar, a nice enough coastal town in Northern Dalmatia, before travelling down to Split, […]
