Tea....  in lovely china and floral tea cups with delicate handles and tiny teaspoons, lots of milk and a good chat with a friend... Bliss! Anyone that knows me will know how much I love tea.

On my visit to Edinburgh my friends brought me to a place they knew I would love. It was called Clarinda's Tearoom on the Royal Mile. It was like my grans kitchen :o) We had breakfast and some lovely fairy cakes- yes I know those who indulge bulge, however it was more of a balanced diet of good and bad! Here are a few photographs to share with you. Sorry they are not the best of photographs as I was trying tp avoid the other customers.

Here are some photographs I took of Stirling when we visited last week, the old town is very picturesque, hope you like them. Have any of you been to Stirling before? I know one of my blog followers lives near it. It is the gateway to the Highlands of Scotland. Here are some of the wonderful sites we visited...

Hi everyone, I'm home from my flying visit to Scotland, had a lovely time catching up with my friends. We went to Rosslyn the first day as we have already been to the main attractions in the city. Here are a few of my photographs to share with you.

The first day we went to Rosslyn Village by bus, it is a quaint little place, the weather wasn't great when we arrived so we went for lunch in this lovely old hotel, it was full of character and cosy too..

When we were all full and ready to get going, we headed down the hill towards Rosslyn Chapel, passing this lovely house on the way...

So here we are at Rosslyn, we couldn't get photographs of the whole chapel outside as restoration work in ongoing, here are just two photographs of it, if you would like to find out more about it you can visit the official website. It really is a wonderful place, the tour was excellent and the architecture and carvings are amazing! No photographs were allowed inside the chapel.

Once finished in the Chapel we headed back up to the village, passing this wonderful cottage on the way... Some colourful flowers would look lovely outside it I thought...

And then we caught our bus back to the city... the sky was getting very dull looking so we headed back to my friends' apartment passing these views along the way...

So that was day one of my break, we went out for dinner and drinks that night in the dome and bar one.. I'll share some more photographs of the rest of my trip soon too...

Hello everyone,

Hope you are all having a good week, Its over half way to the weekend now :) I've been busy working this week so haven't had much time for my blog. So as I'm still busy here at home I've just going to share with you some photographs in my collection from times gone past, mostly of places I like, some of them you may have visited yourself, so here goes.

Le Tour d'Eiffel

I have visited Paris a few times and really love the atmosphere and architecture of this city.

Edinburgh Old Town- With its winding streets of cobble stones and steps this is another of my favourite places.

Donegal Castle Ireland with a wonderful setting in the picturesque town of Donegal on the West Coast of Ireland.

Powerscourt House and Gardens County Wicklow Ireland is an immaculate setting in the mountains south of Dublin City.

Home is where the heart is!!

These are just a few of my favourite places, my list could go on and on and on, I particularly like visiting my favourite places in Ireland throughout the year as they change with the seasons.