Photograph: Silas (taken outside The Ships Inn near Manchester, England)
The canal boats traversing the canals which crisscross England and Scotland have pilots who live in these vessels as their homes. There are abundant resources online to describe how you can take up this lifestyle too.
The Ships Inn is important because my friend, lefty Unplugged, was playing there and that performance was a special treat of its own.
Here's the same boat as it moved into one of the locks which occur frequently on the canal system and which are operated by the pilots of the boats. The system was remarkable to me since I have never seen anything of this nature previously anywhere else. On the bank you can see young people with steins of beer they most likely bought at The Ships Inn so they could come to enjoy them out here.
In Edinburgh, this is a sightseeing bus rather than one of the city's double decker buses which are all over the place. In the foreground you can see Haximoto, the brave little scooter which had just carried me all the way from Greece. I was born in Scotland but had never really seen the place because I was so young when we left.
This gigantic mural is on the side of a building in Leith, a city within the city of Edinburgh. Unfortunately, I don't have any information on the artist(s) who did it.
The Belly Buster restaurant was my home away from home in Leith and the lovely people who ran it were immigrants from Poland. There were multiple troubles while I was staying in Leith and the people from The Belly Buster were helpful to a point well past people giving a stranger a break. I was in Leith for three or months and I came to love all of them.
One more since I had to bring you the owner of The Belly Buster who has so much love in his heart for people and he helped me tremendously.
Check out the Haggis on the menu on the top middle board and, no, I did not have the courage for it. I really am a native Scot but I couldn't do the Haggis.
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