Number 21
Travel Blogs from Edinburgh
Edinburgh , Edinburgh Castle
... tour started at 9.45am and seeing it was almost that , we took the tour. Very informative and gives you a good indication of what it is all about. After the tour you can just walk around at your own pace and look at all the items that have been pointed out to you. Really raining heavy by now, so we spend a fair amount of time inside the various museums in order to keep dry. Also visited the vault which contains the Scottish Crown Jewels. At ...
Day 18 - edinburgh
... not last time however it was packed with loads of tourist - you expect that during the tattoo and also the festival of the city! Once we finished at the castle we drive out to Rosalyn chapel built in the 15th century and famous for the da Vinci code. Not sure if it was the guides continuous talking but we were all quiet bites with the chapel very quickly (apart from a few who enjoyed it) so ...
Up YER Kilt!!
... run since it wasn't far from where we were. They gave us a very sweet Audi….silly people, they put the steering wheel on the wrong side!! Ah….****! Everyone is on the wrong side of the road!! lol….let the fun begin. It was (is) hilarious driving like this, you have to fight every natural instinct to get on the "proper" side of the road, like learning to drive all over! No biggie! We parked the car and headed back for the celebrations. ...
Day 3 in Edinburgh: The Castle
... our boarding passes for tomorrows flight as the local Internet cafe near our apartment had closed down. We then killed a couple of hours at the Museum of Scotland before heading back to take the Whisky Experience tour. We stopped off on the way to take some more photos and to have a drink at Deacon Brodie's Tavern. William Deacon Brodie was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'. Brodie was ...
Kings, Kastles, and Kilts oh my!
... Potter”. We found both cafes and they were both marked claiming they were places where Rowling penned her stories about Harry and the gang. After some more walking and shopping we grabbed some french fries, I mean chips, for dinner and headed back to our hostel to get cleaned up and ready for bed. It was an early night, considering we had to get up at 3:30am to make sure we got to the airport on ...