Highlights from my trip to Scotlandshire - part two.

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vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
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Pace bike for track racing.

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Note the pitch of the teeth on the sprockets.

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

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

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Thunderbird 3 fossil - Princes Street

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Victorian pillar box.

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The Kelpies - Falkirk. Truly awesome.

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A Kelpie at close quarters.

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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?
 

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Scoosh

Velocouchiste
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Location
Edinburgh
You still should have telt us youse wiz comin ... :angry:
 
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vernon

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
You still should have telt us youse wiz comin ... :angry:

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.
 
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