Crieff Hydro

It was half-term last week and our decorator was doing our hallway, stairs, and landing. We decided that keeping three small children away from the central thoroughfares of the house was more hassle than removing them from the house entirely, and so headed off to Scotland for the week. A storm made the journey north slow, and so we skipped our first night’s accommodation in Edinburgh and instead landed at my wife’s parents. The biggest two got left at their grandma and granddad’s as we took the one-year-old through to one of my favourite cities in the world: Edinburgh. We lived in Edinburgh for a couple of years when we were engaged but child-free, and we both fell in love with the city. The architecture (particularly of New Town) is spectacular. The streets are wide, and there are views down to the sea for miles. There’s a buzz about the place, and so many interesting places to go. I got to explore Edinburgh in painful detail with a 6am walk after the baby decided that 4am was a…