Edinburgh

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Edinburgh
Well here we are arrived safe in Edinburgh. We landed last night at 7 pm to 14 degrees’ wind, grey and overcast. For all intents felt and looked like winter but as we drove into town the gardens are saying summer a great disconnect for my brain. Our hotel the Royal Scots club turns out to be an actual real club (Regimental club founded in 1919) with Princess Anne as the patron. (No jeans in the dining room – coats and tie for lunch not compulsory but preferred) The building is 200 years old and was first bought as a home by Margueritta Riddel in 1811, I’m thinking she would have been connected to the Riddel’s who emigrated to NZ and settled Gordonton and built Woodlands. Who in turn are connected to the Riddells from Riddell Road. So here we are holed up in a room with a 20-foot stud and a four posted bed and all the quirkiness of a two-hundred-year old Scottish building….

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