Some of the more observant readers to these pages will have spotted that I've changed the photograph on the front page of the blog.
This is Edinburgh when the buses were maroon and white and not the artistic atrocity they are now; when Princes Street was a street and not the building site it has become; when blue skies stretched over a once proud capital city.
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6 comments:
That's not Princes Street. The sun is shining!
Isn't it amazing how fact things change :-(
But you have a great pic of the way it used to be.
Oh dear, its still a beautiful city Mike! Let's hope the work is over soon.
He he just saw Adullamites comment - love his humour!!
You know Mike, you always have a place here in Seattle, where it never rains and there is never any construction...hey why is my nose growing so long?
I think there are 6 buildings going up at the same time around my workplace downtown. It's an obstacle course getting around down there with all the streets blocked off. They have also decided to put in an underground tunnel for the lightrail train, so sections of the highway keep getting shut down. jeez. So I know what you mean.
Mike I loved Edinburgh when we visited back in 1996.
Hope to revisit again in the not to distant future.
:-)
Peggy
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