A Day in Edinburgh

We had a lovely first evening in Edinburgh.  The sun was shining and Nicola had booked a table at her favourite local, The Bailie, so we could meet two of her friends there for dinner.  After the meal, we adjourned to another place just down the road to enjoy dome local music – a great informal group of musicians on fiddle, banjo, guitar and accordion.  Wonderful toe-tapping stuff – but we were both pretty weary so we finally headed home just after 10pm.  In daylight.

Nicola had to go to work today, so we planned to spend the day just sightseeing around the city.  There were still a few things Grant needed to email to London so we had a quiet morning in the flat taking care of all of that.  Today is not so nice s yesterday, with the sunshine and the rain vying for supremacy; at some stages we were getting both at once.  While we are very keen to see Edinburgh Castle, we had used up all of our morning doing admin tasks and we don’t want our castle visit rushed.  So today we walked into the city centre and just enjoyed the wonderful stone building whenever we could safely put our hoods back.  We also took Nicola’s advice and climbed the Sir Walter Scott Memorial Tower.  This gave us spectacular views out over the city, and even better we managed to time it so that the sky was quite clear.  The climb up the 287 spiral steps was well worth it.

The Scott Memorial

One of the windows on the first level

Edinburgh Castle from the Memorial

Proof that Edinburgh is by the sea

We made our way slowly back to the flat, taking a different route and settled down to rest and make the most of a television set by watching some of Wimbledon for the rest of the afternoon, followed by a quiet evening in.