We set off from Noddyland quite early, 9:30ish, as we were keen to get to Edinburgh well before dark.
As planned, we stopped off at the Hepworth Wakefield to see the Lee Miller & Surrealism In Britain exhibition there, which was good.
We also took some lunch at the Hepworth Wakefield cafe; a much better option than a soul-destroying service station experience.
The traffic wasn’t too bad and/but we arrived in Edinburgh (or should I say Leith?) a little later than planned; just before 19:00.
We quickly went out to get our Leith bearings & some breakfast things.
In search of coffee, we accidentally found Sketchy Beats Cafe, a sort of grunge music and art bar run by a warm and friendly chap named Danny. He explained that Sketchy Beats is not really a coffee shop and suggested that we get our provisions at Tesco instead, which we did.
Danny also suggested that we return later to see the jam, which we also did. In fact, Danny seemed quite keen for me to bring my baritone ukulele with me and join in the jam, which I guessed might be a less wise idea.
We had a super tapas meal at a tapas place, surprisingly named Tapa, just three or four minutes walk from our apartment. Very rich but delicious tapas there, with a lot of iberico variants on offer
We did go back to Sketchy Beats after dinner, which was fun. The music was all very garage/grunge; highly amplified and rock style. I’m not sure that the dulcet tones of Benjy The Baritone Ukulele would have done the business there.
Daisy and I pulled out just after an explicit, dirgy number about mother-f***ing which might even have made Tarantino blush.
Thus we had a reasonably early night despite us ploughing the grimy lows of the Leith nightlife.
We’d arrived.
You can view all of our pictures from this Edinburgh trip by clicking the picture (Flickr album link) below:
