Scotland for the Senses

• The big move... 12 years ago It has been almost a year since I said goodbye to this blog and now my Scotsman and I are saying goodbye to Scotland as well. After much discussion and even more paperwork, we are moving to Canada. Thank you for all the lovely supportive emails and stories of Scotland. I will miss it here. One...
• Should auld acquaintance be forgot... 13 years ago I thought the first line to the popular Burns’ song Auld Lang Syne would be appropriate on this occasion, which marks my goodbye to this blog. After more than two years I am closing up virtual shop. Like many bloggers I have simply run out of creative steam, and as I get older it becomes more...
• Gullane's black rocks, then cake 13 years ago In the gentle world of East Lothian, it is easy to make a trip to the beach stretch out the way the sun laps from the dunes to the shore in the late afternoon. Be as lazy or adventurous as you like, running or rambling from the carpark in Gullane down to the beach, where you start the lingering...
• Deep fried pizza. Get it in ye. 13 years ago This is a pizza supper. Take a pizza. Fold it half. Plunge it into hot oil until maximum saturation is reached.If you dare, unfold the greasy pizza and fill it with chips until you are have created a mountainous, fatty, salt-sprinkled, cheese strewn monster.Consume.Regret.Repeat.
• The long walk of foodie torture 13 years ago A wee while back I undertook a stroll through areas of Edinburgh known as Morningside, Bruntsfield and The Meadows. My guidebook was once again the Pocket Mountains Edinburgh edition of 40 town and country walks, but while the book pointed out one quaint city landmark after another, for me...

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