Walk Around Edinburgh

We did a lot of walking today. Edinburgh is built on a long slope that runs from the castle down to Holyrood Palace (which closed yesterday for three weeks--bummer, we were looking forward to visiting it).

We spent a couple of hours at the castle and then walked all the way down to the palace and then walked back--in the rain. The weather has been generally OK, but today it rained while we were trying to get back up the hill. We did some shopping and then had some dinner at an Indian place before coming back to the hotel.

One drawback to where we are staying is that it's a 30 minute bus ride from town. That means that we'll have to get up pretty early tomorrow to make our tour to St. Andrews. We've decided to do tours rather than drive. The company we've booked with only does tours of 16 people or less and comes highly recommended. We'll see.

Here are some pictures from today.

Saint Margaret from the chapel at Edinburgh Castle.




Memorial Hill



The Castle from Princes Street (where we got off the bus).



Part of the Castle.



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