Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Full day planned for today so we are off early.  Decided to split up today and meet later in the afternoon.  Andre and I headed out to get to the Castle for opening time.  We had pre bought tickets on line so saved quite a line up.  We spent about 2 hours in the Castle, we decided to do the audio tour as well.

Fountain in the park on our walk to the castle

Governors residence still in use inside castle

Dog cemetery inside castle walls

Looking out from inside castle, they are setting up staging here for Tatoo, Arthurs Seat in distance

Inside Castle

Different cemetery with all the tomb stones lined up together

Following the Castle we headed down the Royal Mile with lots of stops in between.  We had a quick bite to eat on the way down as we knew we had high tea booked for 3PM so didn’t want much to eat before then.

Royal Mile

St Giles cathedral

Whiskey shop

Holyrood palace

Made it to the bottom of the Royal Mile Holyrood Palace and decided to pass on going in here and instead decided to climb Arthurs Seat. It is an absolutely beautiful day so we got some great views.  It is quite the climb, and the last bit is not so much fun, but worth it when we got to the top.  We were a little pressed for time as we had a tea reservation booked for 3PM so pretty much got to the top, took a couple of quick pictures, raced down and made it to tea 5 minutes late, and a little sweaty.

Hiking up to Arthurs Seat

View of castle from Arthurs Seat

View of palace from Arthurs Seat

Time for a picture, I'm dressed for tea!

We had purchased vouchers online for 2x1 tea at a very trendy place on George Street.  Started off with drinks that were like Mojitos, followed by sandwiches, desserts, and scones and of course tea.  Very yummy and no guilt as we certainly burnt more calories than we took in today.

Tea time, started with these Mojito type drinks

Yummy

Following tea the 4 of us stuck together and climbed Calton Hill, like we hadn’t climbed enough already today!  This again was a beautiful view, much closer to the city for views, and much easier to climb!  We had a beautiful day today, around 21, but after tea it had dropped to around 15, and tomorrow is supposed to be even cooler.

Rose Street

Andres favourite food truck

Scott Monument

Nelson Monument

View from Calton Hill

Free movies in the park

We are now back at the apartment, it is 8PM, having a break and then we will see how much energy we have to go out again.  We may just make it to the little bar around the corner for a snack and a beer before bed.