{"id":2415,"date":"2014-06-01T08:39:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2415"},"modified":"2014-06-01T08:39:08","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T08:39:08","slug":"dingding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=2415","title":{"rendered":"#dingding"},"content":{"rendered":"

Busy day yesterday, we met our friends the \u00a0White family for lunch at Cafe Andaluz<\/a>\u00a0, then Team Holmes boarded an \u00a0Edinburgh tram<\/a> for the very first time, \u00a0and rode in style from St Andrew Square to Shandwick Place. \u00a0For those of you unfamiliar with this transport farrago, they are massively over budget and put a lot of people out of business, as streets were ripped up and neither cars nor pedestrians could reach the shops and stores. \u00a0 We now have an operational line running from York Place to the airport, via the Gyle and Edinburgh Park. \u00a0The promised access for Leith Walk etc. is very much on hold.<\/p>\n

But they’re here now, so all that aside, it was jolly exciting, people queued from the first departure at 05:30 and there were many lovely pictures \u00a0on \u00a0Twitter, including the first dog on the tram and some memorabilia from the previous incarnation, via Tweeter Stewart Hardie<\/a>. \u00a0 In his picture below, \u00a0the tram board is from Edinburgh but the hat is from Glasgow. \u00a0Oh, and we managed to buy limited edition platinum tickets too, quite by accident as it transpires.<\/p>\n

One thought, I hope that there is a recalibration soon \u00a0of the pedestrian crossing lights on Princes Street and indeed the whole route. \u00a0Each sequence now take noticeably longer, in some cases up to three minutes, and all that’s going to happen is that people are going to take chances. \u00a0 Chief offenders which I have seethed at are the junctions with Waverley Bridge and South Charlotte Street.<\/p>\n

Lastly, speaking of transport delays, \u00a0some two to three years after every other station on the \u00a0Fife Circle was given the accolade of an alternate name, someone at Scotrail has worked out how to spell Dalgety Bay in Gaelic. \u00a0The new sign was hoisted yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

\"Paul<\/a>
Paul & Rosemary waiting to board the tram<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Paul,<\/a>
Paul, me and Rosemary on board<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From trams the first time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Bay in the Gaelic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Phil,<\/a>
Phil, Paul, Christopher, Jacquie and Rosemary<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Limited<\/a>
Limited edition platinum ticket<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Busy day yesterday, we met our friends the \u00a0White family for lunch at Cafe Andaluz\u00a0, then Team Holmes boarded an \u00a0Edinburgh tram for the very first time, \u00a0and rode in style from St Andrew Square to Shandwick Place. \u00a0For those of you unfamiliar with this transport farrago, they are massively over budget and put a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,11,30,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family","category-food","category-friends","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}