Radiac's Scottish Adventure

Leela and I are now back from Edinburgh. We got back on Thursday actually, I just haven't got round to posting about it here, I'm lazy.

On Tuesday we headed into the centre of Edinburgh and started with the castle. Although it was incredibly cold, it was very interesting. I listened to an audio guide and listened to the Scottish propaganda about how evil the English are, and we saw the Scottish crown. After that we headed down the Royal Mile and went into various museums and saw lots of things, including the Museum of Childhood, a museum about Edinburgh, Holyroodhouse and the Scottish Parliament. We also went into the Edinburgh Dungeon, which was extremely silly, but fun.

The next morning we caught a bus from just outside our hotel, and went over to Ocean Terminal to see the former royal yacht, Brittania. We had those audio guides, and it was very interesting to look around - must have been pretty neat when it was all working. In the afternoon we wandered around the shops and went into an art gallery.

We didn't like to spend too long looking round on Thursday because we had a flight in the afternoon, but we still went out and had a look around, and found somewhere good to have lunch. The journey home was pretty uneventful, and arrived back at about 9pm.

It may seem obvious, but Edinburgh was pretty cold. Of course it was pretty cold down here when we got back - in fact, if we'd gone Tuesday to Friday as we'd originally planned, we'd have been stuck with the thousands of other travellers in the snow on Bodmin Moor - but more about the snow tomorrow.

Edinburgh was a lot of fun, and, if you can look past how much they hate the English, it was a nice change to go somewhere on holiday that didn't require foreign money or a travel dictionary. I'll definitely go back to Scotland at some point, but next time I think I'll try to get outside the city. Maybe I'll try and find my ancestral castle! Yes. That can be another adventure.

Photos to follow.

Comments

DavidH

Travel dictionary? You could visit Bud on the oilrig!

radiac

It wasn't that bad!

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