You'll have had your tea.

After my superb wee visit to Edinburgh, I've been home for a couple of days. Time to do some paperwork, time to run (my belt now has to be one notch bigger!), time for phone conversations with friends I have no time to see, time for baths and afternoon naps. Time for all these things are running out.

Today I have to spend some time on gown-up things, like bank accounts and paperwork. So much paperwork, organising lots of bits of paper to allow me into a country, one that I am not even sure I want to go to.

Tomorrow I am off to London town. I travel the world, sometimes alone, my first time in Africa for example, not a problem. London? I am getting mini heart palpitations. I am armed with maps; maps to the embassy, maps to my friends, notes to myself about the maps, the said paperwork and telephone numbers. On my last visit I was reminded, "We don't speak on the underground." Maybe it has changed now. Apparently we Brits are friendly now, or for the Olympics at least.

I am a Edinbugger!

ssssh...it's a secret

A few months ago I read about Edinburgh's secret Wild West. So, when I was through last week, my friend Jo and I walked to the other side of the city to find the wee hidden alley.

Yippie aye yay!

 

 We tried to take serious cowboy photos, tricky with passing cars and parked cars on the other side of the little alley, but hey, we had fun!

The scene was built at the back of some buildings for an advert for a furniture shop, but now is a wee hidden gem in the city. It was the start of a great girly day.

Piecing it together -a visit from Team Canada!

One of the best things about living abroad and travelling, is meeting up with amazing friends in different places and connecting the different parts of your life together.

It is even better when reconnections take place in the sunshine in Scotland! It gives me a chance to be tour guide again, a job I love!

I love it around  Inverary, a trip home wouldn't be complete without a visit there!

So great to spend time with Team Canada before the Olympics! (You may have seen Heather on TV by the torch! :)

A mini Scottish safari

The car was a bit smaller, the roads smoother, the weather was wetter but the mini road trip in Scotland was just as fun as RUT in Uganda.

Speaking to (mostly drunk) locals, hiding from the rain in pubs and cafes (any excuse for another drink!) and eating far too much.My kind of break!

Look at that one!

One of the highlights of our road trip to Skye was seeing the Tattie Bogal Scarecrow Festival. All around the Minginish penisular, placed outide houses, in bustops, on benches and farm fences, were entries into the competition. Once we realised that vodooo did not exsist on the island, we got into the scarecrow spotting mission!

These are some we loved!

me and my new pal

Kerry is on the right!

the local Bobby

This was, by far, our favourite-as it was b****y windy!

And the winner of the competition was...

the old woman with her zimmer.

Aren't they so great? Some of the details were amazing. This could make me move to Skye!