Pictures from our Ancient and Modern World

As a kid I have been fascinated with history and the wonders our world has left us from civilisations past and gone and also new manmade structures I love, this world offers so much wonder yet we almost deny it. I will give you an example 3 of the most iconic things in the world are in my City, Edinburgh Castle, and the Forth Road and Rail Bridge, like people living in the shadow of the Great Pyramid or the Taj Mahal we tend to just walk past as it is has been part of our World and our life since birth, so we don’t see the mystery and amazement at them, so I will show you the things in world, old and new that spark imagination and wonder into my mind and soul

Statue of Zeus

Hanging Gardens of Babylon

Pyramids of Giza

The Valley of the kings

The grand canyon

Christ the Redeemer (statue)

Great Wall of China

Stonehenge

Easter Island

Statue of Liberty 

French Statue of Liberty (Twin Sister) & Eiffel Tower

The Louvre

The Forth Road and Rail Bridges 

Edinburgh Castle

Robert the Bruce & William Wallace stand guard at the front gate

CNN Tower

Houses of parliament and Big Ben

Empire State Building

Panama Canal

The Great Barrier Reef

The Sydney Opera House

City of ‘Cloud People’

Niagara Falls

International Space Station and Earth from Space 

We started in caves and ended up here, building as we went as a species, buildings 100’s of thousands of years old to a few years old, this SONG, will make the blog

Edinburgh, Scotland – In Pictures

Edinburgh Castle. The Edinburgh Military Tattoo

I often get asked about Edinburgh, its History, the Tattoo above, the Ghost Tours, Edinburgh Castle, The Scott’s Monument and more. So, here we are in Pictures.  I hope you enjoy them as much as I enjoy living inside all this History and Architecture going back 300/400 years. My last house was nearly 150 years old. Do enjoy….

The Draw Bridge entrance to Edinburgh Castle

A 1960’s view of Edinburgh Castle from Princess Street Gardens below

From the Edinburgh Observatory overlooking the city centre, with the Castle in the background. Stunning

The Royal Observatory

A view looking along Princess Street from Nelsons Collum

Nelson Monument

The World Famous Greyfriars Bobby outside the Churchyard

Grayfriars Pub

Greyfriars Church

George Mackenzie’s Tomb, the most haunted place in Edinburgh?

The famous grave robbers, Burke and Hare

The Churchyard from above..

The Prison area within the Churchyard.. Trust me!! It has a padlock for a reason!

Crammond Island, I have stayed there over night as a teenager, once the tide is in, it comes to life. Scary place. Was used during WWII, My area of town… **Edit..Not WWIII! LOL**

The walk to the Island. I did half of it the other day with my Dog..

Scots Monument.. Anyone walked up this?

The walk up the Scots Monument..Tight and scary..

An Volcano in the Heart of the City “The Lion” some call it, from here you can see why

Arthur Seat from the other side of the City

The walk to the top of Arthur Seat, the Scottish Parliament and Holyrood Palace in the distance

Salisbury Crags, the West part of Arthur Seat from our Parliament

The Scottish Parliament Building, or as many call it “That Frikkin eye sore” Opposite the Queens Holyrood palace

Holyrood palace, bottom of the Royal mile, the Castle is the other end

The Palace from above

The Royal Mile, Castle at one end, The palace the other

Princess Street Gardens below the Castle walls

Mary Kings close, below the City, sealed off because of the plaque

Mary Kings close

This speaks for itself

The Forth rail bridge at the end of my street..

The 1 mile long forth road bridge, at the end of my street..

Both Brides side by side…STUNNING

Princess Street, the gardens and the castle from above..

Just in-front of my house, 2 minute walk, where I take the dog, keep going and you end up at Cramond Island..

I had another 100 pictures and landmarks I could have shown you pictures of, but I had to stop for my own sanity!! I hope you enjoyed the trip around my city…

Trainspotting – The Movie

This isn’t just a song, it is Ewan McGregor and Robert Carlyle in their first ever movies, who I have met, brilliant lad, running up Princess Street, the centre of my City in Edinbugh. Choose Life! I almost never 🙂 It was all filmed in my city, Edinburgh. Paints a rubbish picture, but if you have not seen this, I suggest you do, funny, hard hitting with a brilliant message , the main actor, the song, and the Movie Trailer. The message is don’t do drugs, and this film paints the bad part of any city that has a drugs problem, I watched it earlier, and thought I would share, the film is over 10 years old now, but still a complete classic!

Ewan McGregor

The Song

Official Movie Trailer 

If you have not seen this film, watch it. Trainspotting has NOTHING to do with trains, I won’t ruin it for you, trust me if you have not seen this, you will want to rent it, it won many awards and was made on a shoestring budget, leading all the main actors to Hollywood and beyond

An Edinburgh Song, a song inspired by my city

Edinburgh Castle in the background

I love music and just then my son showed me a YouTube video about Edinburgh, the song is sung in a VERY East Coast dialect and shows the beauty of my City. Edinburgh has its bad places, but the City is wonderful, the people amazing and it is a city about festivals and theatre and history

I hope you listen to the song, some parts many may not understand, but the song is about a lad from Edinburgh, what he did, what he did wrong, love, hate, being happy, and living in Edinburgh, and he also is Chasing Dreams, this would be the biggest message in the song

Enjoy my City, and good luck understanding the song

Please try and watch, if anything it shows my City and how much history there is, the message in the song is strong, I hope people get the meaning. I know these lads a bit and they are gaining some momentum in Edinburgh.

Love and Peace

We all love where we live, do we?