Kariba Guest House Edinburgh

... already know all the best spots!

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 ...

... is screaming for mercy. Found some very nice cookies though, yum!

Time for some wandering! We didn't hit the Royal Mile unfortunately, but we did get a good wander up and down Princes Street. Waiting around in Pizza Hut for some food, just having a general laugh.. who needs to be touristy when you get the full-on local effect?

And the best part was.. SNOW! Very random and very light, but it was there :)

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom kilgiraffe

... fear and the cold which had settled over the city. Stumbled into bed and set our alarms for the next long day in Scotland.

Oh I almost forgot! The story behind the title of this entry...
Back in the time of grave robbers there were two men that used to kill the homeless in the city and sell their bodies to science. They were arrested and only one was condemned for 18 counts (that they could prove) of murder. He was hung, rehung ...

... a big ol’ time. Really, how much of an ignorant clod do you have to be to visit a war memorial and carry on like you’re at the circus?

We finished our tour at the Scots DG Regimental Museum (cool!), but unfortunately we didn’t get there until about 4:45 and it was closing at 5:00. We hurried through as best we could. It’s a small place and we did manage to see about half of it before they herded the visitors out in order to lock up ...

... 2009 - Syracuse had the whole weekend planned for us if we wanted to join, so we woke up to meet with our group (25 of us) for a tour of Edinburgh. Our tour was led by Forbes, one of the Syracuse professors and Charienne, who is one of the student life cordinators, they were both a lot of fun all weekend. Edinburgh is divided into two sides, the old town and new town, personally I like the old town side better. I don't know what I was expecting but Edinburgh looks ...

... by our hotel. Fabulous. Ciao Roma. Now we're off to unpack and have an early night. We're going to take an on/off bus tour our cabbie recommended in the morning, then go to the Museum of Scottish History, which has been recommended by everyone I know who's been there. This terminal in our hotel is from Hades, so I need to find a net cafe tomorrow. See you then!

... will be nice. We have a free ticket to the Edinburgh Zoo so we may go there soon for a visit. The weather here right now is getting better but it's not stable yet. We get more daylight hours heading into Summer which means it's bright sunshine by 5am and doesn't get dark until 8pm. The weather this week was mild and sunny but there were some cool afternoons. This weekend so far we've had rain and a thunderstorm.. Our next trip ...

The weekend of July 15th I spent in lovely Edinburgh. I don't think I can say just how much I loved being there, the atmosphere was great and all the buildings beautiful. I got into Edinburgh Saturday morning around 7:30 after a fun 9 hour ride on the bus; I think I may have ...

Greetings, Here's a few more pics, these were at the wedding obviously. I'm reading now, more than I used to. Which is funny because any is more than none. I'm about to finish my 3rd book of around 500 pages and there's a quote in it I like. "There is no knowledge worth the name that does not come from experience." T.C. Boyle's Drop City Well I know I'm doing the right thing, let's see how long I can make it last. Thanks for checking on me, cau. Clay