Anna Henly - Photographer Edinburgh

Edinburgh Rat Race 2009

A few pictures from the zany Edinburgh Rat Race 2009 – the urban adventure challenge that some of us look forward to all year…………. This activity (for points!) is “throw-a-mate”.  Funnily enough, most of the mates being thrown into the Scottish North Sea at Edinburgh were the women, bullied into it on grounds of reduced weight. Couldn’t really argue this point. My greatest worry was losing my contact lenses in the sea. My mountain biking skills are……..
The Enchanted Forest sound and light spectacular in Pitlochry, Perthshire has begun. The theme this year is ” Scottish Myths and Legends”. Come nightfall Faskally Wood is hoaching with faeries, witches, kelpies and bogey men. Tam O’Shanter is here and even Robert the Bruce and spider are hiding in a cave.           Tickets to the Enchanted Forest can be found at http://www.enchantedforest.org.uk/tickets.aspx……..
Tonight’s frozen AND burnt pizza offering tastes even WORSE  – after a gourmet mushroom foraging weekend in the magical woodlands at Ardanaiseig House Hotel, near Oban, on the west coast of Scotland. From all over the UK, a group of sixteen had travelled to Ardanaiseig House Hotel, winner of “Scottish Romantic Hotel of the Year” to learn how to identify and cook edible fungi.  Dick calls them “free groceries”. Soon we began to find mushrooms that we could eat…..  And……..

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