Life's about experiences. These are mine.
It was my birthday this weekend (thanks for the best wishes, cards and cake!) and as a special treat to myself I arranged to go up to London to ride the Mail Rail. Mail Rail is the name of the narrow gauge railway that ran underneath London and was, until 2003, how Royal Mail transferred …
While our Fringe dates might be over we did still have a morning to kill and I had seen advertised an exhibition at the National museum of Scotland called “Rip it up: the Story of Scottish Pop” that I fancied visiting, so we did. The museum itself turned out to be a beautiful place. Light and …
So, our penultimate day, and it had a lot to live up to after the successes of yesterday. The beauty of the Fringe is that there are a huge variety of shows on offer for all tastes. However, there were three particular themes that stood out this year: improv – you name it and they …
Having said that nothing much gets started at the fringe in the mornings we had found a play that was on at 11am called Alabama God Damn and so had booked for that today. This was another in a small space with only three principal actors and one musician. This didn’t stop them having a …
The Fringe doesn’t really get going until the afternoon and so we were left with a morning to fill. We fancied being outside so we decided to go to Carlton Hill. When we have been in previous years it has been a lovely place for some quiet contemplation and great views over the city. Not …
Having come to Edinburgh three years ago for the fringe festival and loved the experience we knew we would be back. So we were excited to be returning again this year. That said it turns out that things seem much less exciting at 5am in the morning when you’re woken by the alarm! While I …
Warning – if you have a phobia of balloons then this post is not for you. It contains a lot of them! I have a “bucket list” of places I wish to visit and experiences that I would like to, well, experience. This includes the big ticket items, such as visiting Machu Picchu, to the likes …
While visiting friends over the weekend they took us to somewhere that I have to admit that I’d never even heard of – The Sculpture Park near Churt in Surrey. It turned out to be a hidden gem. As the name suggests the Sculpture Park is home to several hundred works of art which are set …
My second and last day in Szczecin was mostly spent in meetings but I did manage to get out and walk through the park opposite the offices to the rather amazing Amfiteatr which is, as the name suggests an open air theatre in the shape of an amphitheatre. It immediately reminded me of the new Wembley …
Hi ho, hi ho it’s back off to Szczecin I go! I’m here for work and the amount of time I get to spend here is dictated not by how long I need to be here necessarily but by the Ryanair timetable. They (and they are the only carrier to fly direct UK to Szczecin) fly …
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