This is for most of us a busy time of the year and I am no exception to that, this year we are going over to East Ayrshire top spend the Christmas break with my son and his partner, plus our son is flying in from New York . Therefore this will be most probably the shortest post I will send out.
21st
With my eldest coming in to Edinburgh Airport he thought it would be great if we spent a couple of nights in Edinburgh in an extremely good hotel, which we willingly agreed to (obviously). So a pre Christmas break where we ate well and enjoyed a great time with our son.
Edinburgh was full of Christmas and many establishments in George Street had some wonderful displays plus an ice rink and this frightening ride that seemed to go very close to the buildings on either side of the closed off road.
The next two shots are the stars in the new St James shopping mall.
The next two are from Princess Street Gardens where the Christmas market was. I was a bit disappointed in this as it was mainly all food and not enough gift stalls.
Christmas Eve we went for lunch to Troon Harbour and had a fantastic meal overlooking the marina.
27th.
On our way home after having a wonderful family Christmas we had snow all the way from Glasgow and the journey home took us an hour longer than normal. Well I say home we made it , but the car did not. The following sequence of the journey up our single track road roughly two hundred yards from home. The secret to driving on compacted ice and snow is to keep a constant speed in the appropriate gear. We had good speed and got up the hill for three quarters of a mile, but this double bend was the end of our cars journey, so we had to park up in that turning on the left of the shot and walk the essentials up a very slippy road to home.
Bearing in mind these shots were taken the next day, you can imagine how bad it was with falling snow on it the day before. I managed to get around those two bends, but only twenty five yards further before having to “sort of” park it up the verge opposite that outbuilding.
29th
At last got the car home.
Our landscape with the mist rising off the river.
Well silly me I said I would not have much content for this blog, turns out I was wrong. See you next year.