As soon as we wake up we phone Travel Inn Inveresk and try and book in there - we shall not make the same mistake again. Woo they have a room.
We drive back towards Edinburgh. We decided that it'll be silly trying to find a place to park there, so we drive past and park at a station just outside - Musselburgh (this is a tiny station). We travel in on the train - unfortunatly the last train out is at 6.37pm so we can't spend that much time there.
We wander around and find a place for lunch - it cost well over 7 quid for 2 sandwichs and 2 bottles of drink!
It's Fringe time... we get attacked by people giving us flyers for their show which shall be the "funniest show we will see at Edinburgh this year". Next year I shall take a show there called "funniest show we will see at Edinburgh this year" for everyone advertising it for me without realising can only be a good thing.
They all start after our last train unfortunatly. We visit the Camera Obscura which is well good :) I think we must spend about 3 hours looking around at all the optical illusions and the like.
Then we walk up to the castle and look at the technical setup for the Military Tatoo - we are much humoured about the lack of security around some of the more important features.. such as the lighting control cables which all go into a power distro garden shed :)
We go and have a drink of coffee in the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre. After leaving we get stopped by a Gouranga man... grrr. We then listen to some live music in Princes Street Gardens and then head back off to Musselburgh. We eventually find somewhere to eat, this place confused us somewhat as we felt that someone would show us to our seats but after been acknowledged a few times a seat was not forthcoming so we just sat down. We eventually get a menu and order - but they don't have the salmon Amanda wanted (apparantly we should have been told this when we took our seats...).
Amanda, my personal secretary, gets a call for me...
It appears I was not happy about what I was being told/asked :)
We find our hotel and sleep lots again.
Today's mileage: 77 miles
Ed - On a mobile phone??? Am i seeing things? I thought the call would have been turned down out of principle.
Posted by: Toph on September 2, 2003 11:19 PMThe least said about this the better I feel :) For the reason I was on the mobile was suggested as a good reason to get one... eeek.
Posted by: Ed on September 2, 2003 11:21 PMWhoever suggested this has a point. I agree with them.
Posted by: Toph on September 2, 2003 11:26 PMI am not going on holiday with you again until you get a phone :)
Posted by: Amanda the secretary on September 2, 2003 11:36 PM<sob>
Posted by: Ed on September 2, 2003 11:37 PMoops - sorry Ed, partly my fault - blame your parents for suggesting I phone Amanada ;o)
Posted by: Adam on September 3, 2003 1:32 AMLooks like you're getting a mobile then Ed! Especially if your secretary has anything to do with it (which i'm sure she will :-)). Not your fault Adam, how else were you supposed to contact him?
Posted by: Toph on September 3, 2003 11:01 PMErm... you just don't contact me - it's not like contacting me on that occasion actually changed anything - hence my face, it meant that I just knew things I'd rather not know whilst on holiday.
Posted by: Ed on September 3, 2003 11:13 PMI know ringing him while he is on holiday, tut, i just ring his house and get his dad to get him out of bed to tell him things he doesnt want to know :).
He does have a lovely morning voice though ;).
Posted by: James on September 4, 2003 11:42 PM