Happy New Year! Bye Old Year.

Wow, 2011!!

Happy New Year!

I hope you all have a wonderful (and productive) year!

It's already started to look like a new city and a new year in Edinburgh.

The snow that once graced the tops of buildings and covered the ground



melted last week.

A few Christmas inspired things are still around, but they just don't give off the same enthusiasm as before Christmas.


The German Christmas Market with the awesome sugary goodies is gone.

For a brief day they were replaced with these:

Those food stalls are for the big Hogmanay (New Years Eve) party.

So is this huge screen:

But they too are gone, and now the lovely old city is back, ready for whatever the new year may bring.