Ziggy & Anne's Postcard From Home

Hi All

Anne and I arrived safely today at Edinburgh following a long but quite reasonable flight from Sydney.

Travelled for the first time with Malaysian Airways/KLM and Malaysian are very good.
Anne wanted to join the "Mile High Club" but I quickly pointed out that we were flying 14 metres below the required height!!!!

Brother-in-law Sandy was there to pick us up and on his way over the Forth Bridge was shrouded with fog as you can see. This was 09.30 Monday morning - not looking too good a start, weather wise.

The arrival - Anne being her usual camera shy self was hiding and Sandy must have been that excited to see us he got the shakes for the second picture.

However, by 11.30 and on our way to Wemyss we stopped at the picturesque South Queensferry - the Fife Riviera - for a beer.

Just to remind you of what it looks like and the views from there, here are a couple of pictures.

Found a nice spot to refresh.

OK, time to return to the Kingdom.

Coaltown, here we are, back home.

A quick look down the freshly painted "Rows" but, where's my Ma??

And here she is, looking good for a 76'ish lady snuggled in her chair.

Despite the jet lag, a walk is in order on this beautiful summer evening  Could this be a West Wemyss oasis in the distance? Better check it out.

After sampling the local hospitality in the Belvedere, the return leg of this walk was out of the question (plus it's uphill going back!!)

Luckily there is an excellent local bus service that transports some of the Wemyss folk back and forth to the bingo.

And on the bus we met Betty Coombes - a popular figure on "Burn's nights" with Helen Bell.

After a pretty long 48 hours since we left Sydney, time to catch some sleep.
Hope you have enjoyed the postcard, don't forget to come back for more.

Best wishes
Ziggy and Anne

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