It was Rob's 60th Birthday, so we decided to have a day out in Edinburgh. Brock was booked in to a local kennel for 24 hours.
Morning coffee at I J Mellis in Morningside... excellent coffee!
Our next stop was the Royal Botanic Gardens. The cafe there was very busy. There was no gluten free cake listed on the menu, but the waiter said they could provide a chocolate brownie ... and here it is. Very nicely presented, but I got a nasty shock at the till when charged £5.75 for this fancy tray bake!
We visited the Natural Selection exhibition at Inverleith House in the RBG, which was quite interesting.
A Bower bird's nest, made at human scale
A ceramic re-creation of a confiscated egg collection
We went on to the National Museum of Scotland.
The Grand Gallery looked wonderful in the dappled sunlight
I always enjoy looking around this museum as there is such a variety of things to see, plus interactive installations for those of us who are still children at heart.
Mother India's Cafe was our lunchtime venue. It serves tapas-style curries, and we chose four of them to share with a rice, peshwari pitta bread, coriander chutney and poppadoms: chana aloo (chickpeas and potato); okra and tomatoes; aloo gobi and green beans (potato, cauliflower and green beans); and vegetable samosa. With two soft drinks, the bill came to £30.45.
We caught a bus back to Bruntsfield and walked back to where we'd parked the car, all the way though Morningside, stopping along the way to look at some of the more interesting shops and charity shops.
We decided to pick Brock up early from the kennels and went back to the flat exhausted after a very busy day.
Morning coffee at I J Mellis in Morningside... excellent coffee!
Our next stop was the Royal Botanic Gardens. The cafe there was very busy. There was no gluten free cake listed on the menu, but the waiter said they could provide a chocolate brownie ... and here it is. Very nicely presented, but I got a nasty shock at the till when charged £5.75 for this fancy tray bake!
We visited the Natural Selection exhibition at Inverleith House in the RBG, which was quite interesting.
We went on to the National Museum of Scotland.
Mother India's Cafe was our lunchtime venue. It serves tapas-style curries, and we chose four of them to share with a rice, peshwari pitta bread, coriander chutney and poppadoms: chana aloo (chickpeas and potato); okra and tomatoes; aloo gobi and green beans (potato, cauliflower and green beans); and vegetable samosa. With two soft drinks, the bill came to £30.45.
We caught a bus back to Bruntsfield and walked back to where we'd parked the car, all the way though Morningside, stopping along the way to look at some of the more interesting shops and charity shops.
We decided to pick Brock up early from the kennels and went back to the flat exhausted after a very busy day.
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