The ladies from Surrey and the Isle of Wight

Yesterday, I spent the day in the delightful company of Tina and Sue, two mature English ladies with a great sense of humour and a prodigious ability to walk long distances at speed. It was a showery day with a biting North Easterly wind coming over the North Sea from Norway. Starting at the East end we went through the German Market, through Princes Street Gardens and did my usual full day route after that. A super lunch of fish and chips in the Worlds End, a pub in the Netherbow area of the Royal Mile. From the Palace we went up through Regent Road Gardens, through the St James Centre to shelter from the increasingly heavy raind an then to Moultries wals to show them the designer shops, the Vin Cafe (fabulous) and Harvey Nicks. We finished up with a gluhwein in the Winter Wonderland. Its always a joy to introduce people to Edinburgh for the first time, to see their reactions and to watch them falling under the spell of this magical place.