On Saturday, Maz and I drove up to Dundee, where we stayed with Maz's friend Denise who is studying Civil Engineering at Dundee University.
Dundee sits on the north bank of the Firth of Tay, and permanently moored on the waterfront is the RRS Discovery, used by Captain Robert Falcon Scott for his first Antarctic expedition (1902 - 1904). The Discovery was built in Dundee and launched in 1901. The ship spent two seasons in McMurdo Sound, and controlled explosions were needed to free it from pack ice before returning to the UK in February 1904.
The following morning, Sunday, we took the bus down to Edinburgh to see the All Blacks v Scotland rugby match. On the way down we crossed the Firth of Forth, passing by the famous Forth rail bridge:
The atmosphere in Edinburgh was great, with loads of All Blacks fans in town.
Our seats were right up in the back, but the atmosphere provided by the enclosed stadium was suitably noisy, and the Scottish anthem was very inspiring - though not apparently inspiring enough for the Scottish team, who failed to trouble the scorer.
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