Monday, August 5, 2013

I went to Scotland over the weekend. It was just like I imagined it to be!
Cockburn Street


There are lots of steps in Edinburgh!


Edinburgh Castle

The Caledonian Hotel. Roy Rodgers rode Trigger up
the main staircase! Not sure how Trigger got to Scotland.

Edinburgh Castle

The mountains beyond the city

Scotland's Parliament building. It's as hideous as it looks.

Sir Walter Scott monument
The castle was built on top of volcanic rock.

Inside the castle walls

This chapel is the oldest building and dates to around the 1100s.

The Scottish Royal Jewels are housed here. No pictures allowed but they were beautiful.

Inside the Great Hall.

For some reason they like to display their weapons in circles. This
is not the first circular display we've seen. No idea what it means.

Overlooking the city from the castle walls.

The is a dog cemetery for the soldiers' pets.
Notice the little grave stones around the edge.

Interior of the castle walls


Inside the 1100s chapel



This bar is across from an old medical college.

Gates to the Palace of Holyrood, the Queen's residence when she
is here in Edinburgh.

 

Very old and very strange cemetary

Those are crypts in the back




You could buy kilts all over the place.





Best steak and ale pie I've ever eaten.


The Fringe festival was this weekend. It's a festival where people who think
they have some kind of talent take to the streets. Wall to wall people.

City Chambers

J. K. Rowling's hand prints


Dress kilt. Tuxedo jacket and kilt.

What would Scotland be without a piper


Judy and I

Lots of kilt-wearing men around town. Saw a t-shirt that said
"If I wore underwear under my kilt, it would be a skirt."

Kilts and accessories.




 

Palace of Holyrood forecourt



Abbey at the palace 



Gardens at Holyrood.



Royal flag over Holyrood.


The Doctors pub.

Gyroplane at the National Museum

Inside museum


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