The Salutation Hotel is better known as the Sally - i now know, and has been around since the16th century. It was certainly a warren inside. Used to be a famous music venue back in the 70's - my teenage hey days - David Bowie, The Beatles etc have stayed and played there - and several of my favourite actors too. We won't mention Boris.
I arranged to meet up with my mate Sheenah who was willing to drive for an hour to meet up for lunch, bless her! She suggested Loch Leven's Larder - and we set the time for 11.30hrs. Sheenah lives in Pittenweem. Fife is famous for raising Robin Campbell too (Exeter Woodies will know who I speak of). Well blow me, despite 'moderate hills' to negotiate, i was about 10mins early!!! The exclamation marks are because I'm NEVER on time.
We had a great catch up and i wish we could have spent more time together. Lunch was good and fresh too (Caesar salad). Continuing on - there were raspberries growing in the hedges and fine views. Dunfermline was a vast suberb - but the view overlooking the Forth Bridges was stunning. The ride over the old bridge was memorable - South Queensferry is where my friend Mon's daughter and her family reside - but she was out gallivanting - at which point i realised i was only 7.5miles from my next rendezvous (eta tomorrow) - and, as luck would have it, Lynn was having a quiet night in, so was happy for me to arrive a day early. Thankyou Lynn! And it started to rain just 5 mins before i arrived on her doorstep. Just fabulous timing and catching up with two old friends in one day was wonderful.
Once again, photos are in no particular order - it's too time consuming to put them in order and I've put off posting this blog because of just that! Brought back memories just loading them up and browsing through them again.
I arranged to meet up with my mate Sheenah who was willing to drive for an hour to meet up for lunch, bless her! She suggested Loch Leven's Larder - and we set the time for 11.30hrs. Sheenah lives in Pittenweem. Fife is famous for raising Robin Campbell too (Exeter Woodies will know who I speak of). Well blow me, despite 'moderate hills' to negotiate, i was about 10mins early!!! The exclamation marks are because I'm NEVER on time.
We had a great catch up and i wish we could have spent more time together. Lunch was good and fresh too (Caesar salad). Continuing on - there were raspberries growing in the hedges and fine views. Dunfermline was a vast suberb - but the view overlooking the Forth Bridges was stunning. The ride over the old bridge was memorable - South Queensferry is where my friend Mon's daughter and her family reside - but she was out gallivanting - at which point i realised i was only 7.5miles from my next rendezvous (eta tomorrow) - and, as luck would have it, Lynn was having a quiet night in, so was happy for me to arrive a day early. Thankyou Lynn! And it started to rain just 5 mins before i arrived on her doorstep. Just fabulous timing and catching up with two old friends in one day was wonderful.
Once again, photos are in no particular order - it's too time consuming to put them in order and I've put off posting this blog because of just that! Brought back memories just loading them up and browsing through them again.
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