Like the moist, soil drenched zombie bursting from the earth, this blog has risen, back from the dead! This site has been collecting dust over the last few months as my adventures have come to a bit of a stand still, while I’m still having a fantastic time, I have not really strayed too far from Edinburgh, it’s beautiful parks and cavernous pubs.

I finally managed to attain that elusive employment that I had so desperately been seeking, I landed a job where Alyce works at a hotel filling in night porter duties while the regular guys are on holiday. While the work pays okay and I’m getting a lot of hours, it’s really helped me appreciate my job in Australia, I really am in my element most when I’m flexing my brain and pushing adobe creative suite through it’s paces, I look forward to returning to design work when I get home.

In another shocking turn of events, due to a minor lag in payments, the occupants of our flat were curve balled by an eviction notice. Without a place to stay, it was beginning to look like our holiday was going to come to an abrupt and early end, but thanks to the generosity of one of the ladies at work (and the dread of losing two workers during the busy tourist season): we have found a new flat to live in. We are a little bit further out of town, which is a pain, but the flat is much nicer and it’s kind of nice not sharing a tiny space with three other guys.

During our stay in Scotland, we had until recently barely left the towns and cities, not realizing that we where but a stones throw away from epic landscapes and rugged mountainsides that have inspired countless works of art and fiction. With my parents stopping by on their world tour, dear old mum and dad insisted that we spend a day seeing the famed Scottish Highlands and so we packed into a car and headed north.

While the weather was a tad blustery and overcast, the beauty of the landscape was amazing. Rolling green meadows, castles nestled in craggy mountain ranges with rivers carving through the scenery like throbbing veins, simply awesome. Here are some photos:

Right, off to Paris on Wednesday, more blogging to come soon!