The real deal

Yesterday PG and I headed off to Edinburgh for the inevitable 'real' Christmas shop, this was to be our one foray into a shopping mall to gather together the remaining items that I had not been able to secure via the internet. It of course did not work out quite like that and I have to admit that my well laid plans failed....another trip will be required! Bah!

In the event we had an enjoyable day for the most part. The shops where not as crowded as I had expected, perhaps indicative of the poor retail Christmas forecast by economists and we sauntered around looking for gifts in a reasonably relaxed fashion. In fact if I'm honest we seemed to spend most of the day going from one 'eatery' to the next, well you gotta eat lunch, partake of coffee breaks to keep one's strength up and then of course mid evening requires dinner!

We managed to purchase most of what we required in the gift line, found a new cell phone to replace the one PG 'blew up' last week and remarkably I came home with nothing for me....quite a feat if I say so myself, Christmas shopping has a bad habit of turning into expensive 'me' shopping way too often!

En route I took a few pictures, the journey is boringly long when you have stuff to get done but it is none the less beautiful when the weather allows. Strangely, within literally 2 minutes of these pictures being shot we were enveloped in thick, blinding fog that lasted then until this morning!!

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Lookout


Over the hill



In sun


3pm sunset