12-15 th of July Edinburgh

We arrived to Edinburgh at noon time. So we had some time in the afternoon to walk around. The weather was alright but as everyday in Scotland during our stay it was showers. Edinburgh is a very different city loads of stone architecture so it was a pretty grey city. See for yourself.


The Edinburgh castle was nice.





We stayed at the Edinburgh first it was a pretty long walk from the hotel down town. It is a part of the University so we ate our breakfast in the student cafeteria. I ate Stilton cheese for breakfast on croissants, yummy.

The other day we went inside Edinburgh castle to learn about the history of Scotland. THe castle itself was nice and it didn't rain in the beginning.


Getting in the mood bagpipe...



We made a lot of walking and saw some more buildings made of stone of course.




One evening we visited Mary king's close Hidden beneath the Royal Mile a warren of hidden closes. For centuries they have lain forgotten and abandoned they opend up pretty recently. The Close consists of a number of closes which were originally narrow streets with houses on either side, stretching up to seven storeys high. In 1753, the Burgh Council decided to develop a new building on this site, the Royal Exchange (now the City Chambers). The houses at the top of the closes were knocked down and part of the lower sections were kept and used as the foundations for the Royal Exchange. The remnants of the closes were left beneath the building.

Another day we went to The Royal yatch Britannia The former Royal yatch of the British Royal family. We went around on a self guided tour with an audioguide in Swedish, weird I would have prefered one in english instead.

From inside where the Queen had her afternoon tea.

We also walked up to Arhur's seat a group of hills in the centre of Edinburgh. It was formed by a vulcano.

After Edinburg our journey continue by train to York.