Rose & Ada take us to the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh...simply stunning!

 

On our little sojourn to Edinburgh at the weekend Rose and Ada took us around one of the city's many great free attractions,the Royal Botanic Garden,which was quite stunning on what was a lovely autumnal day.

Wednesday for windows...inside out at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

 

Just wait until you get out outside!

Images from this morning's autumnal walk...

Wednesday for windows...pretty in Descartes.

 

Spotted these pretty windows from the 'voie verte' in Descartes yesterday.

A morning walk and 'chercher du pain' in Descartes.

Despite this current spell of bad weather we managed a good 6 km walk this morning through the gardens and around the town at Descartes in lovely conditions. I had suggested a change from Pauline's normal Barrou walk as one, the park is lovely and two we were going to check out one of the town's boulangeries as when out recently at neighbours for aperitifs they gave us delicious sliced baguette which had cheese and meat toppings baked in. Unfortunately as you can see in the last pic.we picked the wrong day!

The "four banal"

 

One of the interesting features of the 'Octobre Rose' walks on Saturday was the firing up and baking at the 'four banal' which was the communal oven used during the Middle Ages. It allowed local inhabitants to bake their bread by paying a tax to the lord, who owned the oven.  

The result was a tasty small bread roll for the walkers.

How lucky were we...

When you consider the weather today we were so lucky yesterday for the walk for 'Octobre Rose' around Le Grand-Pressigny, a beautiful day under a blue sky. The organisers have to be congratulated for the great effort in dressing the village and supervising the walks. I am sure a lot of money was raised for such a good cause.