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Delighted to announce the launch of the latest beautiful publication by those lovely people at Lawson's Books. Anna et Salomé – a book of new photographs by Barcelona-based photographer Adrià Cañameras.

Edinburgh Open Doors weekend

Image via ifeecosse.org.uk

This weekend will consist of:
1) a baby shower
2) a children's party
3) a trip on a fire engine (if I play my cards right) courtesy one of my favourite free things to do in   Edinburgh.

For this weekend is Open Doors, the city's annual architectural event supported by Edinburgh's Civic Trust. This is when you can saunter into and choose to explore different buildings throughout Edinburgh which are mainly out of bounds to the public for the rest of the year.

Last year we visited the Lothian Region bus depot and rode around on old and new forms of transport, as well as open-top buses. This one is great for the kids. We also popped into the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop to check out the wonderful building there and meet the artists in residence. As previously mentioned, this year there has been a request to visit the Fire Service Museum. There looks to be a very good exhibition by Marseille-based photographer, Geoffroy Mathieu, at the Institut
Français d’Ecosse, too.

Make the most of it if you can, it comes but once a year.

run for the hills

Living in Edinburgh, we are most fortunate to be able to experience the many festivals, almost on our doorstep. I have been loving the Fringe 2013 so far, but with city's population doubling at this time, things can become pretty stifling. Earlier this week we shot off to the capital's Pentland Hills for a bit of a breather.

Italia 2013 #3 Venice

To end our recent jaunt to Italy, I requested we leave from Venice. Enjoying the main island by day, we escaped to the calm of La Certosa island for nighttime. An idyllic spot and a perfect get-away from the main tourist drag (bar the mosquito monsters).

Italia 2013 #1 plage

 

 

The first of various sets of images from a very recent family and friends trip to Italy. An invitation to the outstanding wedding of some very good friends, was turned into a most memorable two and a bit week jolly, covering a fair bit of Tuscany and Venice.

 

 



 

 

 

 

 

 

 

le Gard en pastel

Coincidence maybe, but looking back at the photos I had taken this past week in the Gard, they all seemed to have a slight pastel hue.

foiled again

Last year I wrote a post entitled 'it's only March' as we were experiencing something of a heatwave in Edinburgh around the same time, a year ago. I missed the boat and did not quite manage to get the top photograph of this post in last week, heralding the joys of Spring and its better weather. A week ago we were experiencing cracking weather and sporting sunglasses (as in the second photo down). The bottom image is of my daughter and me in snowy Edinburgh... yesterday.

on location

Image via locationscotland.tumblr.com

Photoshoot today with my daughter, Location Scotland and Multiply, in this amazing house in Edinburgh.