Tyler doing it tough on the easy bit of the climb
Close to the top and Tyler is done
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| Our lunch spot |
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| The festivities on the Royal Mile. Our apartment windows are the three at the top of the building on the left. |
The Scroop family are hitting the holiday road, again, for another six week Griswold style European vacation. Starting in London we will train our way to Scotland, back down to Paris in France, on to Brugge in Belgium, Wurzburg in Germany, Salzburg in Austria, Lauterbrunnen in Switzerland and then to the Cinque Terre and Rome in Italy. Along the way we will hit the Scottish Highlands, scale the Eiger, walk the Cinque Terre trails and eat and drink our way to an empty bank account, again!
Sunday 8 September 2013
Edinburgh – Day 9
We get up this morning without
a plan. It’s a stunning day so we have brekky and decide to go for a wander and
see what’s around. It is very nippy as we start walking toward the bottom of
the Royal Mile. This is the end of the Royal Mile where the Royal residence is,
where the Queen stays while she is in Edinburgh. We continue on and come to the
base of what looks like Edinburgh’s highest hill in Holyrood Park and it looks
awesome. At the top is Arthur’s Seat, 251m up, so we decide to do the walk.
This ends up being a tough walk and it takes us about an hour to climb the
hill. The hill has pathways and steps made from stones and once at the top
there are amazing views over Edinburgh. We take an easier route down and walk
back up the Royal Mile back towards our apartment. We already love Edinburgh, it
has a real medieval feel about it with some amazing buildings especially in the
Old Town. After a small break in the apartment we head back out looking for
somewhere to eat for lunch. We head over to New Town on the other side of the
rail line and we find this amazing cafe in the middle of a St. Andrew Square.
The food was cheap and it was nice sitting outside overlooking the park.
Amazingly, even though it was in the middle of a park in the centre of the city
we were still able to have a beer and a wine! Yay for Edinburgh. We continue
walking in the direction of our apartment and when we get back most of the
Royal Mile has been closed off for a parade and it is chockablock with people.
They have Scottish marching bands and a re-enactment of a battle with the poms
that happened 500 years ago today. Apparently the Scots had their arses kicked
and they celebrate it every year, so a Scottish guy on a horse was telling us
and all these festivities were happening just below our apartment. Later on
that night we went to a pretty good Italian restaurant before calling it a
night.
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