http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Is Edinburgh open today? en Fri, 22 May 2026 04:55:29 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=3#post-121507 Mon, 12 Aug 2013 00:50:21 +0000 Tulyar 121507@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've still got a Pakboat - 12ft - weighs under 30lb and fits in a kitbag to sling over your shoulder when riding the Brompton. </p> <p>Tumblehome gives a slightly broader beam low down at waterline and resists careening/capsize fairly well albeit a bit unnerving - with my weight the freeboard is a bit tight.</p> <p>Takes about 15-20 min to thread the frame in to the skin and with the bigger Pakboats you can tweak the rocker for flat or whitewater by the way you load it - because the design flexes like a trad canoe it is reputed to be better to handle in rough water and rated to Cat 3 IIRC (think I'd bottle out before then) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-121434 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 14:24:25 +0000 wee folding bike 121434@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Thanks. I've left the car in Holyrood's car park. Might nip into the house too. </p> <p>Boys having fun with dinos and the big chunk of ice. </p> <p>No obvious signs of festival nonsense. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-121416 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 10:54:36 +0000 wingpig 121416@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dynamic Earth parking access on <a href="http://goo.gl/maps/YYadc">Holyrood Gait</a>. Slope at the north end for cars and steps nearer the south end for pedestrian egress/ingress. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-121406 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 09:52:44 +0000 gembo 121406@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Dynamic earth has underground parking nearby which certainly used to be linked to going into the place. Coming in your way then abbey hill down past parliament into the park then immediately right back out of the park and I think the underground car park is on that street. If that works, tho I only go on the bike so my directions not always great for cars. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-121404 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:41:45 +0000 wee folding bike 121404@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I'll probably skite round the by pass and in along Willowbrae.</p> <p>No sun glasses for me. Number 2 son threw my RayBans in the bin 9 years ago and I haven't been able to afford a new pair. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-121402 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 08:34:45 +0000 wingpig 121402@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not much Fringe down the east end of Holyrood Road but the Fringe-mobbed Pleasance and Cowgate abut the western end at St Mary's Street and the tourist-laden Canongate runs parallel to it. The grassy bits around the Parliament round to Dynamic Earth seem quite popular with sunglasses-wearing camera-wielders and Abbeyhill/Horse Wynd are plagued with buses. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-121400 Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:18:35 +0000 wee folding bike 121400@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Memsahib is suggesting a trip to Dynamic Earth. Is there much Festival nonsense round there?</p> <p>Will be in a car but I'll stick a bike in the trunk in case we need to park the car far away (not small, far away). Will Dynamic Earth be OK with a bike in the left luggage? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118230 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 20:15:37 +0000 gembo 118230@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The purple ones are like new potatoes except purple. 10 mins til just tender, good on own or with spring onion in salad. No explosions. Very gentle boil, cook with cold water and salt, lid on? Once up to temp switch off gas and leave them standing for a long time? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118220 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:19:59 +0000 sallyhinch 118220@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I've tried everything <a href="http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/those-exploding-potatoes-in-full/" rel="nofollow">http://cityexile.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/those-exploding-potatoes-in-full/</a> (the joys of having a blog...) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118218 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:14:38 +0000 cc 118218@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Wow those sound great. Maybe you could steam them rather than boiling? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118217 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:12:22 +0000 sallyhinch 118217@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>- curried with kale or spinach (Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall recipe, much more delicious than it sounds)<br /> - cut up into wedges and shaken in oil, garlic and herbs and then roasted in the oven (basically oven chips!)<br /> - cubed and used in 'random veg frittata' along with anything else the garden is producing<br /> - added to Caldo Verde<br /> - Janssen's Temptation </p> <p>I would like to boil them and be able to use them in potato salad though. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118216 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 16:57:21 +0000 kaputnik 118216@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Sallyhinch, what would you recommend in lieu of boiled new potatoes?</p> <p>Pommes de terre fricassé or Pommes de terre au vin? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118208 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:40:54 +0000 sallyhinch 118208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Do you not find your new potatoes explode if you boil them? Mine just turn into mush. Although we hardly ever simply boil potatoes these days </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118205 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 15:25:54 +0000 gembo 118205@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>on spud front I harvested a kilo of wee purple beauties from three seed potatoes on return from hols, wilting had not occurred as they were earlies and were just flowering when I went away for ten days. Had I been there and watering them and maybe giving some tomato feed may have increased yield but still happy. Taste lovely. Are purple, only cook for ten mins as more tender than those that have sat around a while. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118180 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 12:11:58 +0000 cc 118180@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik Hmm there's a thought. Although the extra liquid would dilute the thick creaminess. I shall keep you informed of progress. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118176 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:47:18 +0000 kaputnik 118176@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@cc wonder if Camp coffee would work, as it's pre-sweetened? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118174 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:41:24 +0000 cb 118174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Don't remember those urinals. Obviously didn't stand out for me.<br /> Only other interesting thing I can think of re. the Kenmore Hotel is Burns's scrawled verse by the chimney in the bar.</p> <p>I've Canadian canoed and kayaked in Loch Tay many times. Can get quite fierce.</p> <p>There's a man made island in Kenmore bay created for Queen Vics visit. I think so anyway. Sounds a bit dubious now that I come to type it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118171 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 11:19:56 +0000 kaputnik 118171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We stopped in at the Kenmore Hotel in May for coffee and a ginger beer and I too wondered why they had such odd urinals. Now I know. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118163 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:40:30 +0000 wee folding bike 118163@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I was out with some instructors and kids in Loch Tay a few years ago. I sat as low as possible because the kids thought it was fun to rock the boat.</p> <p>The urinals in the Kenmore hotel are quite odd… and I just found out why they are designed the way they are.</p> <p><a href="http://www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File%3AVictorian%20style%20urinals%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%201358877.jpg/-/en" rel="nofollow">http://www.geolocation.ws/v/W/File%3AVictorian%20style%20urinals%20-%20geograph.org.uk%20-%201358877.jpg/-/en</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118162 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:28:41 +0000 SRD 118162@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Inflatable canoes not recommended. You may mean inflatable kayak? I still wouldn't recommend, but slightly more plausible. </p> <p>I did see a collapsible canoe on the canal recently, which looked reasonable. </p> <p>Most of the canoes that I see in use are heavy and poorly designed. more like floating bathtubs. </p> <p>I recommend oldstyle wood and canvas if you can get it. If not, kevlar. </p> <p>If you ever get taken out in one do NOT let your kids/yourselves sit on seats that are above the rims of the boat. Sit on the floor. even if it means your bottom gets wet. You need weight as low as possible for stability/ease of movement. </p> <p>I have seen too many 'qualified' instructors here putting kids up on seats in the middle, with total novices paddling. Simply asking for them to fall in. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118160 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:18:12 +0000 Cyclingmollie 118160@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I think the point of this thread is to just say what randomly comes into your head. </p> <p>I'm reading Kafka on the Shore and World War Z. The Murakami is wonderful - why have I not read this before? WWZ is trashy and horrible but I keep reading because I want to know what contemporary mores are going to be skewered next. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118158 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 10:05:03 +0000 wee folding bike 118158@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Go Outdoors have inflatable canoes but they're still in the £200 range which would pose some issues for the management. </p> <p>To carry a real one I'd need to take off the roof box which has been in place for 8 years and the nuts look like they would require some persuasion.</p> <p>On the "just canoe" thing, when does a digital camera become just a camera? For me it is, I haven't used film in 12 -13 years. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118155 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:46:25 +0000 cb 118155@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Canadian canoe. Definitely Canadian canoe. Or just 'canoe'. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118152 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:31:37 +0000 chdot 118152@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Drifting westward... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118149 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 09:30:13 +0000 Darkerside 118149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I have no idea what this thread is doing. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118144 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:42:55 +0000 cc 118144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@kaputnik I'm still working on the recipe. The first attempt involved a couple of dollops (precise metric dollops) of Greek yoghurt, a teaspoon of Percol instant espresso powder, strength 6 out of 5, and some sweetening. Mixed together beautifully, bitter as anything hence the sweetening, almost blew my head off. Strong stuff, but I smelled victory so this morning I tried for a less assertive blend but achieved bland bland bland.<br /> It seems popular in places where the dairy produce comes from the Tyrol - I've seen it in Milan and Venice and Innsbruck. I love giving oddness a go and took to it like the proverbial duck. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118141 Tue, 16 Jul 2013 08:03:59 +0000 wee folding bike 118141@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>You can also learn a lot about native north Americans from Star Trek Voyager and both The Original Series and The Next Generation had native north American episodes.</p> <p>In Voyager Commander Chakotay goes on vision quests and his dad is Manolito Montoya who worked on the High Chaparral ranch. Strangely Manolito was a Vulcan at one time.</p> <p>No jungle here but after more than a week away in England and Wales the grass was a bit mad and the potato plants had wilted. Memsahib sorted out the grass. Potato plants pending. Some wee tomato fruit appearing but mostly still just flowering so I'll need to hit them with the paint brush.</p> <p>Memshib is likely to insist that I fettle big car so we can take boys away camping in a week or two so I'll need to get some radiator hose from a motor factor. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118133 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 23:10:33 +0000 kaputnik 118133@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@CC I demand you reveal the secrets of coffee flavoured yoghurt! </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118131 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:42:51 +0000 gembo 118131@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>My favourite Plains Indians - Lakota Sioux. If still called that. It is true that most of my knowledge came from good channel 4 book about them. Oh and John Wayne movies which I am the first to admit doesn't count. Think I know the difference between a teepee and a wigwam (if still called that).</p> <p>The canoeing looked fun but I have terrible back at the moment from using hand scythe down in jungle at bottom of my garden. Obviously, just big weeds, not implying Balerno has tropical rain forest or anything like that :-) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=10708&page=2#post-118130 Mon, 15 Jul 2013 22:35:24 +0000 SRD 118130@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo 'first nations' ! </p> <p>I can show you how to do it, if you like. easy peasy once you've got the knack. </p>