Deep Sea World in North Queensferry under the iconic Forth Railway Bridge bills itself as Scotland's national aquarium and a fun filled venue for a family day out. The aquarium is easy to reach by car with ample free parking, a nearby railway station and bus service from Dunfermline. The first thing you will have to do when you arrive, depending on the time of year, is queue up for tickets. There are markers at various points along the queue telling you how long until you will reach the door, expect to wait up to an hour at peak times. You queue along the quarry which is supposed to hold seals but was empty the last time I visited. Spending ages in a queue is not the best way to start a visit anywhere and this is one of the many reasons that we do not visit anymore.
Once you get inside the first area you come to is a main hall ...
Advantages: A lovely little place Disadvantages: Probably not so nice when it's raining
Saltburnby the sea reminded me of the sort of place that you see on early picture postcards. It's a charming Victorian seaside resort and even today it still retains much of its old worldly charm. The Saltburn Cliff lifts are located directly opposite the pier and fit in beautifully with the ambience of the seafront.
These cliff lifts are capable of taking up to twenty passengers a time to the top of the steep cliff and back down again. Each ride costs 65p per adult and only lasts a couple of minutes but as a one off experience it was something that I would recommend and its something that I thoroughly enjoyed.
There's no denying that this is an amazement piece of Victorian engineering. It first opened on the 28th June 1884 and is now the oldest water balanced cliff lift in the world. The track is about 40 metres long and very steep ...
Advantages: well written, individual perspective, very of its own time Disadvantages: biased & dated
of human beings. He likes his towns and villages grand or at least graceful, but barring very rare instances, his sense of wonder is reserved for the world of nature - and those fleeting instances when a scene of beauty is caught like an intense illumination, when a momentary arrangement of the world seen form a particular angle is captured with perfect clarity, vivid and unforgettable.
"The Kingdom by the Sea" is now, of course, a period piece, and Theroux's natural talent for misery and depressiveness is ideally suited to depicting the Kingdom of 1982, the time of the Falklands War, the gloomy hardships of Thatcherite depression with huge unemployment, empty hotels and closed factories, the destruction of industry, the Northern Irish 'troubles' in full bloom, the looming end of the railway network. Oh, and the son of the heir to the throne ...
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