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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

... without it but I guess a lot of people will have lots of memories of their time there.
I had thought of going to Raith Rovers game but changed my mind the day before traveling - good job I did - the Raith match was cancelled!

Anyway - enjoyed the game. Ended 2-0 to Alloa who now move into the promotion contention in Scottish League two.

... 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 ...

Today, I was planning to go to the youth hostel at the castle, but the Land Rover had other plans!!!

Oh dear, game over! I popped out to start the Land Rover this morning at around 9am and the engine was smoking like a trooper and sounding a lot worse than it normally does. I called the AA at around 10:00 and they turned up at at around 10:45 from a local garage. He told me that the engine is fairly terminal (piston problem ...

... us like shear royalty.

Cathy and Mary you will be happy to know I found some beads that are unique and have made a small purchase. Gordon took me to 2 bead shops here in town.

We started out this morning viewing Bass rock off the coast which is in the North Sea and it houses over a 100,000 gannet birds, then drove to the Rosslyn Chapel, written about by Dan Brown in the DiVinci code. Quite a beautiful chapel and very ornate inside ...

... of street was quite busy. Later I was told that the place is haunted - no wonder, these kind of buildings are old.

After load-in I went photo gear shopping: an external flash with a bouncer, a slave cord and also a faster memory card. I was lost in Edinburgh for a moment, because the taxi driver took me to the wrong business center. But I asked for directions and finally found to the right place, Calumnet Photo for professionals=heaven and hell (heaven for all stuff that ...

... about the Greyfriars graveyard. We heard a story about the MacKenzie Poltergeist and we were all herded into a tomb that held some prisoners that were killed and the poltergeist would appear...well nothing happened except that after 10 minutes a guy in black jumped out and scared us....So no poltergeist and I still don't believe in ghosts! Then it was off to bed and we prepared for a long coach ride to Liverpool the next day.

... Royal Mile we continually saw couples that were dressed up. The women were wearing nice dresses and fancy hats and the men were wearing kilts and nice jackets (see pictures). We were like where are these people going, so we decided to follow them. Turned out they were headed to the Holyrood Palace the place were the Queen of England stays when she visits Scotland. Lisa asked the police guard what was going ...

... He's been to the Yukon and Hudson's Bay before and liked both quite a bit. It's funny how people see much of the world, but never their own country - like me! Off to the Majestic bus tour - 4 different bus tours (well, only slightly different) are included with the pass I bought. They all belong to the same bus company, but they had to do it this way because of anti-monopoly laws in Edinburgh. Each "company" has a slightly different route ...

... jaunt there and then Cyndi had to cut it short by desperately needing a w/c. From there we went to the Scott Monument, located in the very centre of Princes Street. There are 287 steps in this tower, some being quite narrow where the passageway seems to swallow you whole. If you are at all claustrophobic, don't try it. By the time we got to the top I was praying for there to be no more steps. This ...