Capital View Apartments Edinburgh

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We plan to visit Edinburgh before going onto London. As my husband is of Scottish heritage. I need MUCH advice on getting around Edinburg, Scotland without driving ourselve. We only have a few days before we head down to London so we would like to maximize our time there without being frantic

312 miles - set off at some un-Godly hour to drive from Chesterfield to Fife, Scotland to watch football! Trish likes the journeys but thinks the idea is crazy. Anyway, we are here now! Prior to the match we walked around the town - NOT Scotland's biggest attraction. Anyway, 2:30pm and I arrive at the ground ready for the match. One stand is fairly ...

... itself was such a shock. It was like a combination of London and Vienna. Such gorgeous old buildings, I couldn't wait to explore..

..Meet up with some of my friend's mates in the station, aaaand then we end up in the St. James shopping mall thingy for an hour and a half. Now unlike most teenage girls - I. Hate. Shopping. Well at least just going around staring at clothes. Seriously, what is the point? My adventure ...

Fun trip to Murrayfield for Scotland v Fiji.....lots of happy Scottish faces after the win, boys in fancydress, stag parties galore, chuc-chucs ferrying folks home in the rain, great cocktails in an Italian Jazz bar and running to catch last train back home on a busy busy Saturday night train heading South.

... hay! We still ooh and ahhhhed at the stone cathedrals and churches in each area.

We arrived at Haymarket station and after Paul getting us lost several times we finally got to our B&B here in Bruntsfield, took us about 15min very hot and sweaty walk. Here we were able to leave our luggage (got in bout 10.30am) and we got to explore the city centre. Without any idea of what was where and how much, we aimlessly wandered throughout the city ...

... in a tour bus for months (with our possibility to shower or to use a toilet you can flush). At the same time it brings all the people really close and you do feel attached to each other: it makes you the gang, the crew, the group that are in this together. I was happy to belong to this crew, as myself, as the only female member at this stage of the journey (more on this female topic later...).

So thank you Edinburgh, Rob and others, for making it memorable for me and us.

... cold too. I think my favourite part was the Scottish War Museum. It had exhibits from right throughout history. Old, old highland battle gear and lot's from the world wars. I've spent hours during the day wandering through the small streets and lanes of New Town and the cobble-stoned lanes of Old Town. It really is a great city. Everything meshes together wonderfully and it's easy to just keep walking, without a care about where you're heading. In fact, it ...

... to fight the siege. Note to self: When return to England must go on tour of nuclear power plant. I really want to go on a tour of a nuclear power plant. As I tried to find a museum (and failed. Oh did I fail.) I headed up the two ... mountains? I'm hesitant to call them mountains because they're small, but they're no hills, called Arthur's Seat and The Cracks. I went part way up (I would have gone further but I cleverly wasn't ...

... returning to the hostel. I showed Nick and Janette my food photos and they laughed. I can't blame them - what kind of loser takes photos of his food when he travels? Probably the same kind of loser that takes pictures of cute Spanish hotel receptionists and cute Spanish waitresses ... I took another nap and then watched some cool improv shows on TV. One was called "Mock the News", and was similar to "Whose line is it anyway?". Another was ...

... his life. READER. Be taught by this. To seek those riches which never can fail, and those pleasures which are at God's right hand. For evermore. The gracious gift of God. And to be enjoyed through faith in Jesus Christ, our Saviour. The gardens here at the Palace are breathtaking. Afterwards we went to Clever Dick's Pub for a while with the whole gang, caught the bus home and washed some clothes in preparation for our trip.