Just dropping in to water the garden and do some washing on our way back from Scotland and on to the Dordogne. The highlights of the holiday so far:
Best Gardens: Threave near Castle Douglas.
Best Building: Scottish Parliament Building in Edinburgh.
Best Exhibition: "Consider the Lilies" in Kirkcudbright. (We didn't make it to the Picasso or Andy Warhol in Edinburgh.)
Best find: Kilos and kilos of chanterelle mushrooms.
Best Walk: Rockcliffe to Kippford.http://www.blogger.com/img/gl.link.gif
Best Book: Kate Atkinson's One Good Turn
Best sporting event: Putting on the green in Moffat
Most unusual architecture: Samyi Ling Buddhist Temple at Eskdalemuir
Most misleading sign: "Families Welcome" outside a pub. This actually meant that the seedy bar was full of teenage mothers surrounded pushchairs.
Worst meal: Maxie's Bistro in Edinburgh. Dire.
Worst experience on coming home: having lost the ticket for the car park, closely followed by "popping" on the scales.
Best thing in the pile of post: My mini moo stickers. What should I do with them?
5 comments:
How bored I was, how bored ...
Welcome back, Lesley
I love the photo of the gate at Rockliffe.
The best book I read was Ann Tyler's 'Digging to America'
and the best restaurant : the club house at the Golf de Teynac on the way to St Emilion. Absolutely Fabulous view and uncomplicated, inexpensive grub as well as a witty and friendly 'patron' and charming waiter. I'm in a hurry to go back, I've even suggested caddying for my brother.
The Andy Warhol thing... you missed absolutely nothing, honest!
Still chuckling at "Families Welcome"
:-)
Sounds great - families welcome made me laugh too!
That's a lovely mosaic.
Crumbs, I didn't realise buddhist monks had web sites.
How... worldly.
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