2012: the best bits
It’s been a funny old year. After working in the same place for two decades, I’ve now left two jobs within a few months of each other, experiencing both the… Read more 2012: the best bits →
The ones that nearly got away….
So it’s Hogmanay, I’m clearing out from my iPad all the photos I’ve used, or rejected, for blogging in 2012 and I’ve found a couple of posts that I meant… Read more The ones that nearly got away…. →
Stirling: where we stayed and where we ate
We’ve just spent two nights at the Stirling Highland Hotel. This was built in the 1850s as the city’s High School and didn’t become a hotel until the 1990s so,… Read more Stirling: where we stayed and where we ate →
Visiting Braveheart: the Wallace Monument
While staying in Stirling, we took a walk out to the Wallace Monument following the route from inStirling.com. NB If anyone else decides to do this, note that it’s mainly… Read more Visiting Braveheart: the Wallace Monument →
Stirling Castle at dusk
The last time we visited Stirling Castle (Historic Scotland) was a sunny, autumn day in 2011 and the pictures in the blogpost I wrote then reflected that. After arriving in… Read more Stirling Castle at dusk →
Edinburgh’s all dressed up for Christmas
I’m a committed Glaswegian but, whisper it, at Christmas Edinburgh does it better. Both cities have funfairs and Christmas markets but Edinburgh’s are definitely more spectacular. We explored them when… Read more Edinburgh’s all dressed up for Christmas →
A Chinese Opera
John’s just got back from a business trip to China. Unusually for these things, there was some leisure time built in and while in Beijing he was taken to see… Read more A Chinese Opera →
Unwinding in Crieff
On a day out in March, we stopped off in Crieff Hydro for tea and thought it would be a lovely place to stay. After a gruelling few months at… Read more Unwinding in Crieff →
Stained glass and puppets
We’ve lived in our present house for nearly twenty years, and every time we leave it we pass this at the end of the road, yet we’ve never been in:… Read more Stained glass and puppets →
Berlin: Leonard Cohen at the Waldbühne 05/09/12
So – the triumphant culmination of our holiday! Not that we didn’t love Berlin in its own right, but this is what it was really all about: the Leonard Cohen… Read more Berlin: Leonard Cohen at the Waldbühne 05/09/12 →
Berlin: Unterwelten & East Side Gallery
Our last full day in Berlin dawned grey and damp, so we decided to take one of the tours from Berliner Unterwelten E.V. (Society for the Exploration and Documentation of… Read more Berlin: Unterwelten & East Side Gallery →
Berlin: Alexanderplatz to the Reichstag
One of the first German words I remember learning, strangely, is Fernsehturm (TV tower) because the one in Berlin had just opened in 1969 when I started learning the language… Read more Berlin: Alexanderplatz to the Reichstag →
The Glasgow Gallivanter 