Highlights from my trip to Scotlandshire - part two.

[vernon]

Pace bike for track racing.

Note the pitch of the teeth on the sprockets.

Mixed meze in a Turkish restaurant. Everything was great apart from the smoked aubergine.

The Holy Family with a Palm Tree by Raphael in the National Gallery

Thunderbird 3 fossil - Princes Street

Victorian pillar box.

The Kelpies - Falkirk. Truly awesome.

A Kelpie at close quarters.

The Falkirk Wheel. It replaced ten or eleven locks to raise and lower barges and uses £10 worth of electricity per day to operate. I saw it operate and it took just under five minutes to complete a lift/drop.

It was a wonderful break with three surprises. I bumped into three colleagues, current and ex, in Edinburgh. Two of them were staying in the same hotel as us. Weird or what?

 

[Scoosh]

You still should have telt us youse wiz comin ...

 

[vernon]

You still should have telt us youse wiz comin ...

I didn't tell my colleagues that I was going to Edinburgh but it didn't stop me from bumping into three of them there. I will be returning to Old Smokie when the Surgeons Hall Museum re-opens in the autumn. I'll let you know when I I'm up next. A beer and pie tour sounds like a plan.