Day out to the Edinburgh Festival August 2014

Anne waiting on the tram.

Lovely clean stations

Ferris wheel on Princes Street

Houdini was there!

Super drumming group

Some entertainers were different

He had his head in a bucket (don't ask why)

On Monday Anne and I travelled by bus to Edinburgh to visit the fringe events taking place along the the Royal Mile. There was the usual entertainers doing their tricks keeping all the tourists entertained. Unfortunately it was a bitterly cold day with a wind coming in off the North sea which did not encourage us to stand about too long in the one place. Good day out despite the cold for our annual visit to Scotlands capital.

Day trip to Edinburgh. February 2014

The trams are coming

After several years they have arrived!!

On Wednesday it was a miserable rainy day so armed with the bus pass I set off for a jolly to Edinburgh.On arriving late morning it was a far better day in the east, dry and sunny as I went to my first port of call ,yes you have guessed it already "Wetherspoons" for a pint. Walking along the famous Princes Street I managed to see one of the infamous new trams being tested a sight many an Edinburghian thought they would never see.I had lunch in a restaurant called Bar Soba that had been recommended to me by a gourmet food critic for one of our national papers,it is a mixture of Far Eastern cuisines beautifully presented complete with chopsticks. Afterwards I had a wander round some of the quieter back streets full of quaint little unusual shops not normally found on the High Street. Bus back to Ayr in the late afternoon and then it got a wee bit daft ,I got involved with friends in Wetherspoons and then off to the local hotel to meet the "Wednesday night boys" getting home at 11.30 PM, maybe I will grow up one day and learn that my body can only take so much food and booze .