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Friday 1st April 2005
So it's 12:35, and we find ourselves in Dundee.
We took a different route back from Glen Prosen, as M**** had a surprise in store for my birthday, and I had to follow her directions. Dundee weren't part of these directions, but I wanted to check out this Discovery Point centre thing and the ship there. And here it is. The museum was pretty cool as well.
All about . . . erm . . . Captain Scott, his ship (the Discovery) and the Antarctic expedition. We even endured the 20 minute video presentation (the only weak part of the whole exhibition), entitled something like 'Trapped in the Ice', but actually very little to do with being trapped in the ice.
It kind of washed over me, and it was only after 15 minutes that I realised how dull this thing was . . . just a voice-over and a sequence of still images fading in and out. Crikey, some of these thumbnails have gone awfully tiny.
Anyway . . . our parking ticket (donated by a lady who had only been parked for five minutes and now had no need of the other 115 minutes) ran out not long after one o'clock, so on we went . . .
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and that to the right is nearby the strange place where we had lunch. We were heading along the A90, towards Perth, when we thought we would pull off towards this tiny little village called Errol. After Errol, we turned left towards Port Allen, thinking this might be somewhere we could sit down, watch the Firth of Tay go by, that kind of thing. However, Port Allen seemed more like someone's farm, so we just pulled in, off the single-track road, and ate there, near this weird, circular building. Reminded me of France, for some reason.
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Right. So, as we got nearer and nearer Edinburgh (I'm driving), I kept going, "So, we're going past junction 4. Keep going?" yeah . . . just keep going, keep going. We went over the Forth Road bridge and right through the middle of Edinburgh and after a few minor scares (wrong lane, wrong lane), we were on the Royal Mile and then Holyrood Road, where M**** had booked two nights at the MacDonald Holyrood hotel (or similar). Cool. After checking in and all that, we wandered around Edinburgh . . . these pictures were taken at 18:39, 18:40 and 19:14. The last one is especially significant as M**** has a picture taken at pretty much the same angle, but many years ago, and I think in black and white. This picture was taken from a spot not too far from this cute little place where we ate that night, Maxie's Bistro I think it was called.
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