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Intrepids Visited Craigmillar Castle September 2011

Craigmillar Castle:- the Intrepids paid a visit there on 18th September 2011 when the weather was mixed, being sunshine, windy and showers - in other words typical good old Scottish weather.  The walk...

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Intrepids – Old Town to New Town and Back

Sunday 21st January along with my partner Susan we had arranged to meet two fellow photographers for a stroll around the old town.  A meet and greet so to speak.  However, due to inclement weather they...

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Intrepids Meet Historic Edinburgh Tours

Tuesday 28th January 2014 the day The Intrepids met with Historic Edinburgh Tours otherwise Sid and Walter (intrepids) met Paul (Historic Edinburgh Tours).  We had met two years ago on a Hairy Coo bus...

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Hidden Gems In the Open – St Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh (Episcopal)

I classified this as a Hidden Gem in The Open as St Mary’s Cathedral is sited off the beaten tourist routes. Palmerston Place is located in the West End of Prince’s Street.   Starting from Scott’s...

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Edinburgh Photo Trail – New Town

In the midst of time in the 90′s two parties agreed a joint project to create two photo trails in the city of Edinburgh. Two trails were created Old Town and New Town, both trails started outside the...

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Stirling Castle – The Royal Apartments

With the recent (4 months) of inclement weather here in Livingston I have not been able to get out and about with my camera as much as I liked.  That plus a minor illness, which has made me semi...

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Retirement an Adventure? Life Is Though

Where does the time go? Where did the time go?  Here it is 24th June and 700 year ago an important event occurred in Scottish history, the Battle of Bannockburn. However, that was 700 years ago and...

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Is there Life after Retirement?

What a question! It has been three years since I “retired” from the rat race.  Three years of lazing about living the life of the idle rich.  I wish.  During the past three years I have travelled,...

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Roses and Robins

Those (in the UK) of a certain age will remember a TV advertisement with the catch phrase “Roses grow on you” by the late Norman Vaughan.   It would appear that my garden has been overtaken by roses...

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Some Days Are Diamond…..

After last week-end out with The Intrepids I was reminded of the song sung by the late John Denver – Some Days are Diamond, the chorus goes like this: “Some days are diamonds, some days are stones...

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