Specialty & Fine Food Fair : Edinburgh (Day One)

My little sister is in the middle of starting up her own company called "Wicked Wicker" which is a contempory hamper company, very soon to be launched. We went to Edinburgh to see if we could find any last extra special items for the hampers.

We left on Saturday afternoon at 1:00pm. M58, M6, A74, A702 was the route we took. Angela took the first part of the drive and we took my car. Half way we stopped at a service station to have a break and get some food to re-charge our batteries then it was my turn to finish off this long journey.
We got into Edinburgh City Centre at about 17:45pm and proceeded to get lost. We asked various strangers how to get to Newhaven as we were to stay in the Premier Lodge. The first person we asked sent us in the direction from which we came. After a while we stopped off at a shop to ask someone else for more directions and they sent us back in the direction we where originally going and eventually we found the hotel.

We got changed and went in search of the restaurant "La Tasca". With the help of a cabby we arrived at our table 20 minutes late. The food was very good, along with the bottle of wine we had. Once we had finished our meal we went in search of more drinks and music. Again we had to ask the locals for some advice on where the best bars where. We found a place called "MadDog" which was ok but didn't provide the atmosphere we wanted, so we asked the DJ where the best place to go. We walked half way across town to find a club called "Faith" which looked and sounded ok from the outside. 1:00am came and we had enough, we were tired from the long journey, the drinks and dancing so we went in search of a taxi which actually took us 1 hour to find. During this time we thought it was best to walk back to where we where dropped off by the cabby. A good night was had!