An Excellent Week in Edinburgh

Ahh, Edinburgh, my favourite city and my favourite holiday of the year - the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Aside from a minor hiccup with our first train being cancelled from Bristol, everything else went spectacularly to plan. I do love it when a spreadsheet and itemised plan actually works! :-)

 

 

 

We always stay at a little holiday park just outside the city centre on the eastern side of Musselburgh. It's a 45 minute bus ride to the city centre along the coastline of Joppa and Portobello with beautiful views and sandy beaches.

 

 

 

The site has a variety of places to stay and this year we traded up for a slightly bigger lodge than our usual (one with a double bed and it's own toilet!) and ended up in the Almond Bothy which was so lovely I think we'll be booking it again next year.

 

 

 

The other amazing thing about this site is that they sell wood-fired pizza a couple of times a week. We arrived on a Tuesday night around 6pm and while I got on doing the unpacking Andrew nipped over and picked up a Hawaiian - perfect fodder after an 8 hour train and bus ride! 

 

  

Then we headed into Edinburgh city to see our first shows, soak up the atmosphere and (obviously) eat a lot more food...

 

 

 

 

Somewhere we've been meaning to visit every year and never get round to it is Mamma's Pizza Restaurant. This year we had a gap of a couple of hours and despite there being a bit of a queue to get in, as there was only 2 of us, they showed us to a table straightaway - bonus :-)

 

Andrew had the Matador pizza and I had a BB King pizza topped off with a shared bowl of cheesy chips - and it was definitely well worth the 4-year wait.


Next year I'll have to plan a pizza stop into my GANTT chart!