The weather in Edinburgh has been dreadful for the last couple of weeks
but today blue sky is peeping out from behind the clouds
so I thought I would grab the camera get in the car and head out
into the countryside, I've got somewhere in mind, fancy joining me
Welcome to RogVLOG
so most of my trips recently most of my vlogs
have been into Edinburgh I've been wanting to check out how the city
is coming out of lockdown visiting my favourite cafes
seeing the trains back in action but today I thought I would travel
out of Edinburgh deep into the countryside
so we're going to be driving about 20 miles
and our destination is Whiteadder lake, yeah it makes me think of Blackadder
as well but it's Whiteadder
oh air time, it's a quiet place it's a pretty place and it's likely
there are people sailing boats there
we're about to drive through a small village called Gifford
and once we've gone through Gifford it'll be pretty much
open countryside and very quickly it gets quite wild and windswept
I call it wind and wuthering landscape quite high up now if you can see right
back there down to Edinburgh and the third the Forth way off there in the
distance it's absolutely stunning up here all
this lavender colour all around us
and now this final long steep hill down to Whiteadder lake
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here I am at white adder lake now it's very very windy here so apologies in
advance if there's a lot of wind noise in the video as I go exploring
actually I don't think it's that windy
I don't know why I'm whispering because there's nobody else
here I was expecting there to be people yachting
and fishing but apart from one person I saw just up there near the car park
it's deserted
as you can see I'm pretty useless at skimming stones
the person I'd seen earlier now returned with
a sailing yacht
technically Whiteadder is a reservoir not a lake
but who cares it's a great place to chill out
but I should have brought a picnic or at least a mug
of coffee
what a great place just to chill out for half an
hour and let the wind buffet your thoughts about
let's get back to the car
so there you have it Whiteadder lake somewhere a little bit different
possibly somewhere you've never heard of but well worth taking the trip
from Edinburgh just to come and see it it's gorgeous
and so very very peaceful if you enjoyed this episode of RogVLOG please do
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