Edinburgh Castle
Scotland
Camping at the hotel!
I decided to stay at a hotel nearer to where Jeremy is now living in Edinburgh – the Budget Ibis. The rooms are basic, but fine for a night or two and reasonably cheap. They do not however supply a kettle – so I packed my own and included porridge, homemade raspberry jam and fresh coffee for breakfast.
My lightweight camping cook set.
The cable and adaptor is for my iphone so I could watch videos on the TV.
The day turned out to be damp, cold and overcast so we ended up watching The Grand Tour and the Saints verses the Cardinals at Jeremy’s flat – hence this is Today’s Photo!
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On the way to Scotland
I am on my way to spend the weekend in Edinburgh with Jeremy, leaving Michael to house sit and feed the cats. I stopped to take this photo on the nearly deserted A68.
Scott Monument
Jeremy’s Birthday Ice Cream
Before
After
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A day geocaching
Back to work tomorrow – today I set out to go geocaching in the local area, to include getting fuel in Galashiels and lunch in Stow at a cafe recommended to me by one of the campers.
This cache was in a lay-by near the campsite
The view near Lauder
Gullet Wood
Picnic area and shelter
Stow
The view near Stow
It was strange geocaching in Stow as the caches were part of a treasure hunt and history trail around the village. Instead of having to be careful about searching and looking suspicious, it seemed like everyone knew what I was doing.
Excellent history trail – I would recommend it.
I’d recommend the Cloudhouse cafe in Stow as well, free fast wifi and good tea. Also the wifi let me catch up with things at the office and speak to client on Skype.
Walking in Gullet Wood
I found this place because there was a geocache here – well actually it is not here now, but the descriptions of the place were so good that I decided to visit anyway.
I took water from this stream to try out my new Sawyer water filter – I am writing this post about four hours later and no bad effects from the water yet! More on this filter and its use in a later post – things did not go so well.
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Sunset at Lauder Camping and Caravan Club Site @CampAndCaravan
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Last night’s sunset at Lauder Camping and Caravan Club Site. An excellent site with excellent wardens that many people miss out on and drive right past it!
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