
The morn started every bit so many have got on this trip - amongst a breakfast at our lodgings. Another vegetarian have got on the English linguistic communication cooked breakfast for Michael; cereal as well as a flake of toast for me.

Have I mentioned the strawberries? They've been abundant throughout our journey, as well as similar none I've always tasted. You don't bespeak a super-red as well as almost over-ripe specimen to honour flavour - fifty-fifty the plainest ones are bursting amongst it! We bought a huge punnet from the supermarket inward anticipation of the side yesteryear side leg of our develop trip.
But nosotros yet had an lx minutes or 2 earlier our develop was due, as well as nosotros passed that fourth dimension at the
National Railway Museum.

Fierce. Actually, this was exactly the tidy as well as informative collection yous would facial expression of the British, peculiarly the department devoted to the carriages prepare for the regal family. Here the warehouse was decked out inward Union Jacks every bit far every bit the optic could see, as well as the platform covered inward a reddish carpet!



Travel yesteryear track wasn't so luxurious for the mutual homo - hither are examples of yesteryear first, 2nd as well as tertiary cast carriages.



Thankfully our ain rides have got been much to a greater extent than comfortable - amongst
National Express fifty-fifty providing gratis WiFi on their services! (The alone argue we've been able to weblog so often.)
Next stop; Edinburgh. We deposited our bags at our hostel as well as took off upwardly Calton Hill for a facial expression over the city.









With these early on views of the Old Town, I was quite smitten yesteryear Edinburgh. Before leaving Commonwealth of Australia we'd also received some personal recommendations from yesteryear residents
Johanna as well as Justine, so I was eager to uncovering the urban nitty-gritty they'd each grown fond of.

For dinner, nosotros relied instead upon Michael's meshing inquiry as well as visited
Black Bo's. When nosotros arrived, it was bafflingly deserted, but for a tabular array of 4 conversing quietly inward a corner. We loitered a petty piece as well as so decided to assistance ourselves to a table, amongst so many of them available. Another 2 groups arrived as well as milled about, similarly uncertain. After a time, the surprised as well as apologetic lady running the flooring returned from the adjoining pub. "Och, I wasn't expecting customers!"
It's a shame that Black Bo's doesn't appear to describe a crowd on a Th night, because our meals were surely worth the wait. I was wooed yesteryear the prospect of seasonal asparagus, choosing the filo parcels of pistachio, asparagus as well as feta amongst cassis as well as pomegranate sauce.

It was a lovely combination of rich saltiness as well as tart fruitiness, though it could have got relied less heavily on the feta for flavour.

We weren't sure how oft the chance for vegetarian haggis would introduce itself, as well as so Michael picked the haggis balls stuffed amongst garlic cream cheese, amongst turnip cream sauce. He wasn't disappointed. They reminded me of felafel.

Our mains also came amongst a alternative of sides. In keeping amongst our hearty meals, nosotros eschewed the salads as well as tried the squash of the twenty-four hours as well as the roast vegetables.
All nighttime I had the dessert blackboard inward my trouble of sight, as well as I had my optic on the vegan blackberry pie the whole time. But yesteryear the fourth dimension I'd lapped upwardly the berry sauce from my master copy course of report I was less enthusiastic for more. Instead I suggested that nosotros portion a dessert of Michael's choosing.

This yielded an organic chocolate as well as walnut brownie topped amongst vanilla icecream. The warm brownie was studded amongst every bit many dates every bit it was walnuts, rich as well as mercifully small. I was most impressed amongst the icecream; rich, creamy as well as flavoured amongst existent vanilla seeds.
We walked at to the lowest degree some of it off on the Royal Mile earlier retiring for the evening, but mayhap I tin say yous to a greater extent than most the district tomorrow.