A Few Days in Fife Part 2

Having attended to business ( IKEA shopping and meeting Son No 2's letting agent, the latter not a totally satisfactory experience it must be said ), we turned our minds to some enjoyment. We finally got around to visiting Falkland, where we joined the National Trust for Scotland at Falkland Palace. You're not allowed to take pictures inside the Palace, which is totally understandable but here's one  of outside. I have to say it's not an ideal place to visit if you have an ankle that is still liable to aching and swelling, but I'm glad we went regardless.

 

 

This is a wall carving that caught my eye

 

and this is a small café by the name of The Hayloft. If you're ever in Falkland and looking for somewhere to eat I can highly recommend this. The men had all day breakfasts, which isn't really my cup of tea, but I had some Leek and Tattie soup which was delicious.

 

The next day I had arranged to meet up with a friend in Edinburgh. Our meeting place was one of the cafes in the National Museum of Scotland, also well worth a visit. OH and I had toyed with the idea of visiting the Viking Exhibition that's on there at the moment. However everything that appeared on the publicity posters and leaflets we remembered seeing at the Historisk Museet in Stockholm last May so it didn't seem worth paying the extra £9 a head to see it all again.

 

While V and I set our respective families, and then the world, to rights over coffee and then tea in the Museum , the others  ventured out into a chilly Edinburgh. OH wanted to check out a telescope shop, which sadly had turned into an RSPB outlet for the sale of binoculars and other assorted bird watching sundries which was disappointing for him. The lad however was thrilled to discover that Forbidden Planet was still Forbidden Planet.

 

For readers who don't know Edinburgh here are a few snaps of some of the less famous bits

 

by which I mean they aren't of Princes Street or the Royal Mile.

Apart from the lack of telescopes it was an enjoyable few days away. We'd like to go back at the beginning of next month to catch an Artist's Studio Open Weekend, but it transpires OH may be remotely babysitting some computer processes then so we'll probably have to miss it.