Well that was certainly a whirlwind visit to Edinburgh. Didn’t really see much of Edinburgh itself this time around – mainly Becca’s flat (that’s where Rache and I dossed for the weekend), the inside of a couple of pubs/bars, and the rugby stadium!

Rache had invited me to Edinburgh to see “the rugby” a few months ago. I agreed but it wasn’t until this week that I found out we were actually watching a a Wallabies v The Scots game – an international! I’m not much in the union code of football – I prefer the rugby league or AFL but I was definiltey keen to test out my 12x zoom to check out some union butt. Heh heh.

Rache and I caught the train up mid-afternoon on Friday afternoon. We were sat next to some lovely ladies who chatted with us the whole way up. Turns out that one of the ladies was actually Suzanne Shaw’s cousin! Quite a bit of an older cousin – the ladies were on the way up to Edinburgh to attend a friend’s 60th! Rache and I were in stitches over some of the things the ladies were saying. I must say it was certainly one of the most interesting train journeys I’ve had in a long time.

We arrived in Edinburgh just in time for dinner. Becca and her boyfriend cooked us up some curry and we had a quiet night in with a couple of bottles of wine.

We had a leisurely start to Saturday with a long sleep in followed by a giant lunch meeting up with a bunch of Rache’s other friends who were in town and another friend of Becca’s. The size of the Yorkshire pudding with my roast was unbelievable. The weather was typically Scottish – grey and wet so the first order of business after lunch was funding a pub to hide out in until it was time for the game! Luckily the rain held off long enough that when we found the only spot was in a beer garden of sorts we didn’t get soaked.

By 4.30 it was getting dark and also closer to the start of the game so we headed on over to the stadium after a few pints. Upon arrival at the stadium we found we were up in the rafters, great because we could avoid the rain and had a nice view to the Castle, surrounded by Scots!

The Scots proved to be more entertaining than the game – in 27 years the Wallabies haven’t lost to the Scots but apparently they decided this was the weekend to do so! The game wasn’t bad because the Wallabies lost, more that both teams did not play very well and there were a lot of injuries.

Nevertheless we had a great time even with the good natured ribbing by the Scots around us.

Then we went and drowned our sorrows at a pub back in town. Unbelievably I got asked for ID at the door. Think the bouncer was a bit shocked.

Biggest shock of the night, however, was for me. Edinburgh is so small you can actually walk home and on the way we went past several bars. Right out the front of one of these there were these two girls going for it. And not just snogging, which you might expect, but one girl had her hand right down the other one’s pants! (Not related to the photo above of Ben and Cam by the way …)

And then some chips for the walk home from the best fish n chips shop in Edinburgh.