Introducing...

One of the characters to feature in our stay here in Edinburgh is of course our flat. It was a pain to pack up everything, and a double pain to try and set up everything you are so used to having at home - bank accounts, phones, a fixed address... But it's done, and after a few weeks we are all set up in a cozy little two bedroom flat in the West End of Edinburgh.

Here are a few shots - I have done my best to make it puurrdy. Kind of exhausting gathering home furnishings and IKEA stuff when you live on the top floor, but also, (I'll admit it) fun too...


Yay! Flat warming drinks with my Aunt and Uncle, the lovely Bill and Helen. Bonnie was there too, but taking the photo, so I have subtly photoshopped her into this shot.

It begins!

For all the travel we've done in our years together, the one thing we haven't done is really dare to imagine living somewhere different. Of all the places we've been we always thought that there was something about Edinburgh, something small-city, old-world and cute about it that would suit us quite well. So here we are, not just traveling through, but living in this little city for the next 9 months! Of course this will be our base for discovering the rest of Europe, but for now this is our new home, and we feel very happy and lucky.

A Hop-Step and Jump to Derby

A few hours from Broome, we go and check out Derby

Little Lizzy looks like a proper local with her mud-caked car

We try our luck fishing off the Jetty

Didn't catch anything though!
Didn't realize how high-up the Jetty was until we returned only a few hours later at low tide!

The prison Boab - big enough for it's past use in locking up traveling prisoners over night. You can't see it from the sunny picture, but it was buzzing all over with bees giving an over-all droning and ominous feeling to the site.

Broome-Town!

Visiting the lovely Liz and James in their new home town.

Chillin at Gantheum Point




Rock-hopping on Cable Beach at Twilight


We went traipsing the low tide shore of Willie Creek with Jan
Harry and Jan slip down for a swim while Leila-dog and I watch.

Just us on the beach for as far as the eye can see...

A good place to hear the sound of your own breath on the breeze


Best sunset in the world?


Collecting shells - but be careful, some of them move...

Baby Crazy-crab