Looking Down Advocate’s Close to Princes Street

I had a tight schedule this morning trying to fit in my Thursday dip in the sea with being out of the house by 9:50am to get to my book group meeting place. I managed it with bells on, even managing a shower, a desanding and putting on a washing, but found the bus journeys home fraught. I was travelling at a peak time and the buses  were so full  that people were shoulder to shoulder standing all the way along the aisles downstairs blocking movement. I don’t think I will do that again. It felt like the London Underground.
It was worth it though to have a beautiful predawn sky and a calm sea all to myself. There was no wind and it felt very mild, such a difference to last week.

Edinburgh seems to be renewing a vast number of gas mains at the moment which means even more traffic lights and tailbacks in a city barely coping on a good day with traffic congestion.
Every main route in and around the city seems to be affected and the trick is to know the rat runs to take for avoidance. This meant that coming back from our meeting in the Craiglockhart area, we had an interesting tour of Slateford and Shandon.