Edinburgh
After a few weeks with more than average number of mis-haps, I decided to shoot up to Edinburgh and catch up on a few old friends.
My timetable decided to be nice enough to me to allow long weekend, so by 430 on Friday, I was saying hello to Will and meeting his crazy but really quite nice flatmates in their rather unorthodox flat in central Edinburgh. Being a mountaineering club flat, climbing really was central with a bouldering wall in the front room and many photos and books to be jealous about.
Not much time for mooching as I met with Rich and went to see ‘Guards Guards’ at Bedlem theatre. An excellent production in an excellent theatre I thought. I thoroughly enjoyed it, and had a great evening talking about the many wonders of the world with Rich and Ewan, Rich’s friend.
The next day was taken up with me largely breaking the nice shiny new bouldering wall, but successfully putting up a bouldering problem which took quite a large amount of work to complete.
Again, I went out in the evening to sample the delights of culture in the city, but this time with Mike, a crazy festival goer. After a superb catch-up of our lives over good food we drifted to a folk session in the Royal Oak. Songs and merriment continued to far into the night, and on return to the flat, the climbing began afresh.
“The most useless climbing move in the history of climbing moves” - Will
- on hanging by you feet upside down from a door-frame.
Sunday morning I wrapped up warm to go on a guided tour of the centre. A remembrance parade, castle, monument and a few cobbled streets later, a full recital of hurricanes, jets and europe adventures was inflicted on a cafe.
The afternoon was just as exciting with a walk and yet another catch-up.
Monday morning - train - lectures and back to normality.
The carefree and relaxation stayed with me though….bliss… Thank you Edinburgh.