http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Living and loving in the capital of Scotland. en-us paul@anoasis.co.uk 2008-05-25T02:00:45+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2008/05/25/Edinburgh/number_one_restaurant.html On my most recent visit to Edinburgh I had the pleasure to again visit the Number One restaurant at the Balmoral Hotel :-) This place is far and away my favourite restaurant anywhere in the world with amazing food, good... 530@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Eating Out 2008-05-25T02:00:45+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2007/10/30/Edinburgh/visiting_edinburgh.html I'm looking at flights to Edinburgh at the moment. I have some work do to out at the Gyle and so I'm planning to spend 3 or 4 days in the City. I was planning an Edinburgh visit a couple... 528@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Eating Out 2007-10-30T21:55:35+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/06/27/Edinburgh/academicus_miraculous.html I've been an exceptionally bad student this year and I've been lucky with exam results and I feel guilty. Well ok, I don't feel guilty but I do feel a bit stupid. To know that instead of tooling around doing... 511@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ University 2006-06-27T01:20:52+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/03/18/Edinburgh/forthcoming_holidays_and_speed_essay_writing.html Almost unbelievably it is almost the end of term and my tardiness has once again caught me up. Three essays over 30 pages totalling some 15000 words in, urm, 6 days... So I'm semi-working on the first one now. Semi.... 504@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Miscellaneous 2006-03-18T17:46:54+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/02/28/Edinburgh/me_and_myspace.html This is a kind of nonsense entry, if you aren't just wasting time reading this then be warned, you are just wasting time reading this. So, I finally bothered to figure out what makes MySpace tick as a community (uber... 501@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Miscellaneous 2006-02-28T03:51:37+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/09/15/Edinburgh/the_wash.html Went to The Wash tonight, up the top of the mound. I haven't been there in years. Since it was the Car Wash. It is nice. Very chilled. Very quiet though for a wednesday. Is today wednesday?... 465@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Pubs 2005-09-15T00:20:16+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/08/31/Edinburgh/excerpts_from_the_fringe.html Got an email from Gemma with some funny excerpts from the fringe, not sure where to attribute it to. Here are my favourites:My dad is Irish and my mum is Iranian, which meant that we spent most of our family... 458@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Fringe Festival 2005-08-31T16:50:38+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/08/29/Edinburgh/pixies_gig_at_meadowbank_stadium.html The T on the Fringe Pixies gig last night was amazing! Since their reunion was rumoured a couple of years ago I've been fairly keen to see them - though not keen enough to force myself along to T in... 456@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Music 2005-08-29T16:11:27+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/08/19/Edinburgh/alarming_buses.html I was walking on Princes Street yesterday, somewhere close to the Galleries, when I heard an very calm announcement being broadcast from a First bus across the road,"This bus is under attack. Please call 999"I didn't have any talk time... 451@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Public Transport 2005-08-19T16:21:46+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/08/09/Edinburgh/feels_like_fringe_spirit.html I've been back in Edinburgh for a little more than 24 hours now and have so far been to Phat Cave at the Gilded Balloon, Robin Ince's Book Club, Adam Buxtom's I, Pavel and the recording for Scottish TV /... 448@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Fringe Festival 2005-08-09T01:58:37+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/06/16/Edinburgh/been_away_again.html I've been up in Elgin and haven't posted for a while for two reasons. Firstly, the computer at my folks house runs on steam and secondly I've been way too busy having fun! Highlights include volleyball in the back garden,... 445@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Miscellaneous 2005-06-16T03:00:49+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/06/02/Edinburgh/jolly_pizzeria.html The other night I had dinner at the Jolly Pizzeria on Elm Row. It has recently reopened and is, I am led to believe, unique in Edinburgh (perhaps Scotland?) in having a wood fired pizza oven. The smell of burning... 442@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Eating Out 2005-06-02T04:06:51+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/05/26/Edinburgh/strangely_quiet_around_here.html It's strangely quiet around here. You see the ferocious reader has gone to Palm Springs to help her sister look after her brood of babies. She's back on the 20th of June. It's going to be boring around here until... 434@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Miscellaneous 2005-05-26T20:10:23+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/05/23/Edinburgh/the_new_maharajahs_indian_restaurant.html Last night I ate at the New Maharajah's Indian Restaurant on Forrest Road. I'd suggested Kebab Mahal but my dining partners did not like the look of the place, and more especially the fact that it doesn't sell alcohol... My... 429@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Eating Out 2005-05-23T13:11:00+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/03/03/Edinburgh/mothers_day_gifts.html It is apparently Mother's day on Sunday and so might be too late to buy by mail order. You could therefore do worse than making a visit to my friend Jen's shop, Perjink, on St. Stephen's Street, Stockbridge, Edinburgh. She... 360@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/edinburgh/ Shops 2005-03-03T02:44:57+00:00