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Day 13 - Edinburgh
... appropriate. The royal rooms and spaces were fascinating (albeit a bit stuffy), but the engine room is what blew my mind. It was SPOTLESS! All brass and copper fittings, gauges and instruments, and what wasn't metal was brilliant white. It looked like you could do surgery in there. I thought it was pretty hilarious that they had a garage on one deck so that they could bring along the Rolls Royce. Guess you can't rent one everywhere! I had ...
Golfing Mecca
Dragged ourselves out of bed by 8:00 so we could enjoy Ron's Spekky Brekky again- finally on the road at about 10. Drove over the firth then up to St Andrews via all the little towns and fishing villages along the way. Checked out the castle runs at St Andrews , then the Cathedral ruins. Followed up with a yummy ice cream in the main street then on to some golf course that is world famous.. Quick drive home and another cheap but yummy meal at "our Local" Stuffed!
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Yachting
... of 200+ caters to the royal family is amazing. One of the anecdotes was that all crew tasks had to be completed before 8am when the royal family wakes up. If any of the crew is in the middle of a task and a member of the royal family is present, the crewman would have to freeze and not look at the family member. Also the only communication crew makes to each other on the royal family deck would be ...
Edinburgh – City of Castles and Cuisine.
... journey with Edinburgh.
Edinburgh is a great city to visit. It reminds me of a smaller, friendlier London. For those of you who haven't made the trip, I highly recommend it. Edinburgh also scores points from me as it is a walkable city (though I did manage to somehow break my little toe there, making it less walkable, but that’s another story). There is something wonderful about cities you can just walk around and experience.
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Welcome to the hell house exit strategy fro edinbu
... at teach other and said'another place maybe? so we left and found a sitin restaurant for fish and chips....at the coast eat fish and chips.....so after lunch we went back to the dreaded edingburgh castle, had to pay for parking (10 pounds which is roughly $16.70 for 2 hours and 12 minutes of parking,,,,,,but we did go to the castle thinkeng we had this pass we bought and it was no good so i kept talking and asking questions and buddy prints off passes for us ...
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