BLStream Poland - Edinburgh Adventure Weekend

Saturday 9th Sept saw us treating a
group of 10 Polish java programmers based in sunny Dunfirmline to the delights of mountain biking around the Pentlands. The weather was still awesome - with a definite Summer feel

Paivi was guiding with Jon, Iza and Annett tagging along to help out. We did the usual route: up the road from Flottestone, past the reservoirs, the off raod stuff through the hills over to Marchbank/Balerno before heading past Threpmuir Rerservoir then back up over Midden Cleuch before a banging descent back to Flottestone.


The evening started with an excellent pub meal at the Jekyll and Hyde, followed by a bit of a crawl around the Royal Mile, ending up at about 1am at the famous El Bario...






For something completly different we hired in C2csurfschool.com - with the guy's first ever surfing lessons at Belhaven Bay. The whole experience was ace - even the wetsuit touch rugby warm up session. The instructor Sam and his mate Mark were so enthusiastic and inspirational thoughthe sea was a little bit flat and the surfers, being from Szeccin, Wroclaw and Stafford, were not exactly born-to-it-naturals. However some of the guys even managed to stand for a few nano-seconds...

The weather was so warm, we didnt really need the warm-up again session at Glenkinchie Distillery - but it is on the way home anyway!

Applecross Outdoor Sports Day Loch Tay 8th Sept

37 people (Architects, civil engineers and various staff from an Edinburgh-based design and build consultancy)


Morning session choices of mad mountain biking with Paivi and Martin in the forest above the village, more sedate biking over to the Glen Ogle viaduct and back with Jon, blasting up the hill overlooking Killin with Euan or gentle lochside rambling with Peter B.

Then a buffet lunch at the Killin Hotel consisting of a wall of food....

Afternoon choices: Walking - Peter B doing the strenuous stuff this time with Martin easing his bike aches and pains on the lochside ramble and Canoeing - a 24 man expedition from the Hotel in Candian Canoes out to the marina at Tayside Highland Lodges - of course combined with an enormous amount of splashing and larking about

For the whole day, the weather was awesome for September and absolutely perfect...