Me and Paul are in Scotland! My Auntie Daphne has gone to visit my cousin Claire in Singapore and asked us if we wanted to house sit for her. We flew up yesterday morning, landed at about 10.30. We'd pre-hired a car via easyJet and it was chaos at the pick up point at Edinburgh Airport. However we finally got on our way with the trusty TomTom for company. It's only 30 mins from the airport to her house in West Lothian.
My cousin Nigel and his wife Roxana only life around the corner. They invited us for a bbq yesterday evening, Nigel walked round with Dylan the dog and led us back to his place. Unfortunately the flight and milling around in the morning hasn't helped Paul's gout so he was hobbling along very slowly. It was a lovely evening but by 9.00 we were bushed so we made our way back here.
Today we haven't done anything, Paul has just been resting his leg. Hopefully tomorrow we'll go out for a drive and take in some scenery. Nigel and Roxana have invited us to do a Scottish dancing evening on Wednesday night, at Linlithgow Castle. We'll go along although I doubt Paul will do much dancing!
Other plans are to visit the Royal Yacht Britannia, maybe a trip to the Trossachs, an air museum (joy!) and on Saturday we've got lunch booked at The Witchery in Edinburgh, then tickets for the Tattoo in the evening. We've not made many firm plans as we have to see how Paul does with his walking but at least we've got the car so we can tootle off at short notice.