Drawing in the great outdoors in Edinburgh city centre this January.
As 2017 gets started for me I have been in various locations around Edinburgh meeting people and sketching in the glorious sunshine we have been enjoying.
Whilst on route to meetings I have grabbed a quick 10 minutes to sketch my surroundings as Edinburgh’s beautiful vistas grab my attention. Some which I haven’t seen before, such as this one below from Morrisos Street shows the old Caledonian Distillery, which has been converted to residential buildings. The 300 feet tall chimney stalk was preserved – and is amongst the biggest of Victorian chimneys surviving in Scotland.
The distillery is currently available to see as the ground in between has been cleared temporarily to create space for the new ‘The Haymarket Edinburgh’, a new office, retail and leisure space in the West End set for completion in 2018.
The main sketch at the top of the page is from a new find for me, a sandwich bar offering delicious coffee and gluten free rolls, which made for a scrummy bacon roll this morning.
Peppers Sandwich Bar is on Lady Lawson Street and the friendly staff and visitors alike enjoy this lovely view down the West Port towards the Grassmarket.
The Haymarket Edinburgh website
Peppers Sandwich Bar facebook page
This morning I started the bank holiday with a delicious breakfast of croissants and pain au chocolat, thanks to Genius Foods.
Many thanks go to @Starbucks for stocking their new gluten free tuna roll. It’s soft and fresh and yummy, and sad as it may be it made me happy. So I bought another one and sketched it in thanks 😉 One thing though, please send more to your Edinburgh stores – I’ve seem to have eaten them all 🙂
I visited Loudons today for lunch with the family, I had some yummy gluten free mushroom soup. My wife had a lovely looking eggs benedict with gammon, I’ll be back for that myself. And the twins shared a vegetable pizza slice with salad. The coffee and cake were the highlights, GF again but delicious and worth the visit alone.
Saturday night and I think I’ll pick up a few beers for tonight. So glad I found a place selling gluten free beer recently, as I’d missed it loads since becoming diagnosed ceoliac three years ago. Unable to digest wheat or barley meant beer was definitely a no no.
A very sucessful meeting today in Foodies at Holyrood near the Scottish Parliament. Good chat and exciting plans for the future, so I treated myself to a gluten free treat. This is a peanut butter cookie, delish with an large americano.
Yesterday I was lucky enough to sample the new gluten free Afternoon Tea on offer at the luxurious