I woke up this morning with an insatiable urge
for a good cup of Illy coffee and a Wee Monty breakfast, and that can only mean
one thing, a trip to the Renroc Cafe, it's a good job it's
opened recently as the lock down regulations start to ease, fancy joining
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So let's head down to the cafe, it's all right I'm waiting at traffic lights at
this moment in time, it's about a five-mile drive so let's go,
even though it's June and we really should be heading into summer now,
it's actually a very foggy day here in Edinburgh,
actually it's not fog, what we call it up here in Scotland is,
the haar. The haar.
It's been a really busy week I've been working on some presentations and some
marketing for a couple of online conferences which
is probably why I feel so tired, and that's why I woke up this
morning with this desire to get out and get a
decent coffee, so I cancelled my online yoga classes
and that's why I'm heading into Edinburgh,
well Montgomery Street is just around the corner so we'll be at Renroc Cafe
very shortly, just need to find somewhere to park now,
and this will probably do,
Renroc's been my favorite cafe for many many years, it's run by my good
friend Mr Pelham Hill, I still maintain it has the best coffee
in Edinburgh, so let's go get a cup,
morning Mr Hill, I'm good yourself?
I thought I'd ask Pelham how business is going since he reopened, now of course
it's only for takeaways, but of course the food and the coffee
here is delicious so hopefully, he's had a lot of customers,
Yeah it's been good just open Fridays and Saturdays heading to sorry Fridays
Saturdays and Sundays, open a bit more as a season goes on,
hopefully, on July the 15th where we'll get an update of what's going to happen
next, and I'll say this time and time again,
but the coffee in this cafe is probably the best in Edinburgh,
just tell us a little bit about Illy, all you need to know about Illy
coffee the best there is, the best around, and the best price in town,
now, of course, the lockdown is only partially lifted so the cafes aren't
open for anything other than takeaways, so unfortunately
I can't sit in and enjoy my coffee and my Wee Monty breakfast,
so I've come back to the car but I tell you what the smell the aroma of that
coffee is just incredible,
ah, and it tastes as good as always, so let's have a look and see what we've
got for breakfast,
here we go, bacon, sausage, mushroom, fried eggs and tatty scone,
and of course a little bit of ketchup
Oh that was fab, of course, I would love to sit in the ambience of the cafe
rather than here on my own in the car but this is a tantalizing taste
of freedom the lockdown is easing and here's to when it ends completely,
well Saturday wouldn't be complete without coffee by the harbour, so after
finishing my breakfast I hoofed it here from ren rock down to
Fisherrow Harbour and as you can see the haar is
thick and it lends the harbour a really sort of
ghostly atmosphere, it's really quite quiet,
there's nobody about and the mist is just curling around the boats,
it's really spooky like a mysterious white void,
do you know recently I've been thinking of exotic locations
like Oman, the Caribbean, Montenegro, but you know what,
going into edinburgh today for that takeaway breakfast
and then heading here to the harbour wandering around in the haar,
in the fog, drinking my coffee, that is a just
exotic enough given the current lockdown circumstances,
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