Did you know that you can see the inside of a Concorde airplane in Scotland?  Yup – there’s one waiting for you at the Museum of Flight in East Fortune, about halfway between Edinburgh and North Berwick in East Lothian. You can get there via a bus from outside the North Berwick train station, but [...]

I was fortunate to attend the opening preview of the mixed media art exhibition at the Cockenzie power station on 4 June 2009. The exhibition is part of the annual 3 Harbours Arts Festival which is entitled “art in unsual places”. The Festival is held in the three East Lothian coastal towns of Prestonpans, Cockenzie [...]

East Lothian, located east of Edinburgh will be hosting the 8th annual Food & Drink Festival from 26 – 28 September 2008. Various events are being held to showcase the quality.local produce. The weekend kicks off with a Ceilidh with supper a the Glenkinchie Distillery on the evening of 26 September. On the morning of [...]

I finally got around to uploading a couple of videos I took last month in one of my favourite areas in Scotland, East Lothian, which lies to the east of Edinburgh. The first video is taken from the promenade in Port Seton, a small coastal village, which has great views across the Forth estuary towards [...]

The 3 Harbours Art Festival runs from 31 May to 8 June 2008 in the three coastal villages of Prestonpans, Cockenzie and Port Seton, in East Lothian a few miles east of Edinburgh. The Festival was highlighted as one of the “Best Outdoor Arts Events” in the Guardian. The Festival theme is the sea, an [...]

After a frosty, foggy start it turned into another beautiful, sunny day in the east of Scotland today. I walked along the cliffs in Dunbar, East Lothian, this afternoon and the contrast of the red stone and the blue of the sky and the sea was amazing. View from John Muir walk, Dunbar The walk [...]

Dunbar lies on the east coast of Scotland in East Lothian, around 30 miles east of Edinburgh. By the harbour there is an enormous four ton ships propeller, unveiled in September 2003, to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Robert Wilson who is credited with the invention of the screw propeller for ships. [...]

A detailed proposal for a new Visitor Centre at the site of the Battle of Prestonpans in East Lothian has been published. The report authored by a leading management and hospitality consultants predicts 70,000 visitors a year. The Battle of Prestonpans was a victory for the Jacobite forces over the Government troops. I always thought [...]

Prestongrange Industrial Museum lies between Musselburgh and Prestonpans in East Lothian eight miles from the centre of Edinburgh. The museum lies on an industrial site which employed more than 1000 in its heyday. The Visitor Centre is open from 11am – 4pm every day from April to October. There is a cafe and toilets in [...]

The Aberlady Bay Local Nature Reserve lies 20 miles east of Edinburgh in East Lothian. In 1952 it became the first local nature reserve in the UK. The reserve is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest. The Reserve is best known for birdwatching and is home to some rare birds such as skylarks. A [...]