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| Weekend in Edinburgh - Very nice B&B ... MacIntosh Guest House (www.macintoshguesthouse.co.uk) run by Joanne Liu |
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| View over the Pentland Hills from the bedroom |
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| Roger's lovely Jaguar XF 4.2 supercharged weekend car |
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| Finished off the first evening at a very nice Italian restaurant in ... |
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| Trip to the Falkirk Wheel (www.thefalkirkwheel.co.uk) which links the Union Canal with the Forth & Clyde Canel. |
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| The only type of wheel mechanism in the world for lifting vessels from one level to the next |
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| Our observation boat is in the lower chamber |
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| The balanced weight on each side is 300 tons |
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| Now at the top |
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| Trough the tunnel under the Antoine Wall so that we can turn around |
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| ... and going back down |
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| Then lunch in Queensferry at the Two Bridges - wonderful meringues and Orkney ice cream |
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| Picnic in the garden |
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| Birthday dinner at the Vintners Rooms in Leith - top notch (www.thevintnersrooms.com) |
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| The dinning room is 500 years old - lit only by candles |
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| The National Gallery of Scotland was a great discovery - I'm looking forward to coming back |
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| ... and the weekend finished with a walk along the Water of Leith from Roseburn to Dean Village (www.explore-edinburgh.com/html/leith.html) |
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| I think this is a Thomas Telford bridge |
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