Posted in City of Edinburgh, Scotland, Travel on Mar 24th, 2007 3 Comments »
In preparation for our Greece trip, I went to the nearest branch of the Bank of Scotland this morning to take out some GBP and/or some Euros. I used the bank machine inside the branch instead of the one outside, and was left speechless when the machine kept my card and told me “Your Card [...]
Posted in City of Edinburgh, Scotland on Mar 20th, 2007 No Comments »
Hot on the heels of my last post about buying vegetables in Scotland, the Scotsman newspaper comes out with this doozie of an article: “It’s Spag Bol, again and again”. I’ll spare you reading it if you don’t feel like clicking over. The gist is that the average Scots household’s menu has a grand total [...]
Posted in City of Edinburgh, Scotland on Mar 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Within easy walking distance of our flat there is a Lidl (German chain, very low prices, charges you for bags, runs out of most essentials by 3 pm, somewhat dubious quality – kind of like Superstore) and a Tesco (high prices, tonnes of TV dinner type meals, ethnic food section, 2 aisles of booze selection [...]