On our way further south we stopped in Edinburgh for a couple of nights to see some friends. We arranged to go to the Edinburgh Zoo- as you may know, there has been great publicity about the pandas that are new to the zoo. Unfortunatly one has colic and they have been taken off public display for a while! Ha ha we do seem to miss out on things. But we went any way and I will spare you most of the boring animal photos and just post the below.
A new born pygmy hippo, shame about all the poop up the walls. It looked like a little aubergine running around and swimming. Adorable.
I think this is the first time I have seen flamingos, they weren't as pink as I thought, but perhaps they didn't have the same amount of access to the red algae that keeps them pink.
The penguins let out for a stroll. One of them had bizarrely been knighted "Sir Nils Olav" and adopted by the king of Norway. He holds the rather grand title of HHonourable Relemental Sergeant Major, and is Colonel-in-chief to the kings guard, which coincidentally, makes this daft penguin more important than I could ever dream to be. He is one of the penguins in the photo, but didn't have a medal to identify his fine self.
A rather majestic photo of a sun bear, about to rootle around for yoghurt his keepers had smeared around
Enjoying the salsa bar with the lovely S&S in Edinburgh
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