Dulcie and I took the bus to Edinburgh last week in order to find this house. Do you recognise it? It's Great Aunt Lizzie's house from CBeebies' Teacup Travels, a very old-fashioned show about ancient history. I mistakenly thought I'd seen this house not too far from us in Glasgow and foolishly mentioned it to Dulcie before googling and finding out it was in another city entirely. Well, Edinburgh is not that far really and is full of friends I've been meaning to catch up with, so we hopped on the bus and set off, meeting my friend Lorna once we got there.
We knew the house was somewhere in Princes Street Gardens, but where? After a few hours' wandering, we had found some ice cream, an amazing play park, plenty of sticks and insects, a bench dedicated to Hugh MacDiarmid, a giant boulder from Norway...but no house. Eventually we gave up and set off for home, only to stumble across the house right beside the gate we'd entered the park by! Thank goodness, after all that, that Dulcie was actually suitably impressed and it wouldn't have been half as much fun if we hadn't had to search for it. We squeezed in a quick cuppa (with Dulcie inexplicably stripping off in the middle of the cafe) before jumping back on the bus to Glasgow.
So a totally random daytrip, but very enjoyable nonetheless. It's nice that Dulcie's getting to an age where she wants to go on these mini adventures.
We knew the house was somewhere in Princes Street Gardens, but where? After a few hours' wandering, we had found some ice cream, an amazing play park, plenty of sticks and insects, a bench dedicated to Hugh MacDiarmid, a giant boulder from Norway...but no house. Eventually we gave up and set off for home, only to stumble across the house right beside the gate we'd entered the park by! Thank goodness, after all that, that Dulcie was actually suitably impressed and it wouldn't have been half as much fun if we hadn't had to search for it. We squeezed in a quick cuppa (with Dulcie inexplicably stripping off in the middle of the cafe) before jumping back on the bus to Glasgow.
So a totally random daytrip, but very enjoyable nonetheless. It's nice that Dulcie's getting to an age where she wants to go on these mini adventures.
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