The Doctor lands in Leith for a seafood meal on the Ocean Mist’s restaurant.
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The Doctor lands in Leith for a seafood meal on the Ocean Mist’s restaurant.
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Taken about a half hour before sunrise, on the 2nd of December.
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A typical Portobello terraced house reflecting in a car sunroof.
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“Where Princes Street Gardens are now, the Nor’ Loch was ‘a receptacle of many sewers, and seemingly of the worried cats, drowned dogs, and blackguardism of the city’. Initially stones and planks were laid across its swampland by a tailor with a shop in the Old Town and clients in the New. This gave rise to the name Geordie Boyd’s Mud Brig. In time the ‘Brig’ was filled in by rubble from the excavation works – some two million cartloads tipped out by contractors and private citizens – finally forming a great earthen mound, known now simply as The Mound.” – Stories in Stone
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Great Junction Street, just after sunset, with the old church that used to be Club Velvet outlined against the sunset sky:you can just see Friarwood Wine in the dim light
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I always vaguely thought that double yellow lines – which are painted on the road with a very solid thickly-laid paint, which drips but doesn’t run – would be put on the road with a kind of machine – a paintbrush trailing underneath a vehicle, I suppose.
…and waiting …and waiting …and waiting…
You know, really the worst thing about the chaos on the streets is that while Edinburgh Council claim “A high-quality, modern and efficient tram network is being created for Edinburgh and is scheduled to be running on the Capital’s streets by 2011” – I haven’t met anyone who actually believes that. (more…)