Travel east

I've been in a fair few government buildings in my various jobs over the years but today was my first time in Saughton House. Its often mistaken for Saughton prison, well because it looks a bit like a prison with wings off a central spur. It was apparently build as an emergency hospital during the war but used as a government office since the 1950s.

Colleagues told me that it is the place civil servants go for assessments, interviews, training and promotion boards. So not always a place people skip with happiness into.

Happily for me, there's a tram stop right next door so I took my first tram ride in Edinburgh at last. Very fast and efficient, with a reassuringly nostalgic 'ding ding'.

None of that though was as interesting as the amazing light in Edinburgh in the late afternoon, captured here at Haymarket station.