Scotland’s largest city Edinburgh is really interesting. Most everywhere we looked we found stone buildings, narrow streets, and buildings with what seem like too many chimneys. It all seems to lead uphill towards the Edinburgh Castle and lots of Edinburgh fun!
Looking up at Edinburgh Castle
While the traditionally dressed, the Guards outside Edinburgh Castle are friendly.
Tower which holds the crown jewels at Edinburgh Castle
A city view from Edinburgh Castle, which is up on a hill.
Lots of other sites to see in Edinburgh. A few favorites:
The Royal Britannia – the Queen’s yacht housed in Edinburgh
Do you remember Dolly, the first cloned adult sheep? Her body is now preserved and in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
Sarah sits in the Elephant House Cafe where JK Rowling wrote parts of Harry Potter. This was possibly Sarah’s biggest bit of Edinburgh fun!
We carried Lonely Planet Great Britain, however if we were only visiting Scotland we would have used Lonely Planet Scotland.
Have you been to Scotland and had some Edinburgh fun?
Travel Counter: We are in week 10 of our 250 day overseas adventure.
Edinburgh is indeed quite a magical city!
Wish I had more time to spend there.
Yes, Pitlochery, near Perth is where my Grandmother came from.
cool 🙂
Enjoyed your photos, It’s great your still taking time to blog your adventures while doing all this traveling 🙂
You look like you had a good time in Edinburgh, I went there in the 80’s to visit friends I absolutely loved it there, I couldn’t get over how clean the City was.
Funny you mention this on the day I said I was getting tired of blogging 🙂 I will continue though, family and friends like to follow along. Loved Edinburgh.
Thanks for that info! I really thought that Scotland is a country too! I forgot that it’s actually United Kingdom is the country! Lol! You look like that you have a great time there! Enjoy still!
So are you voting Country, part of the UK or both?
Wow you have seen more Harry Potter locations than most fans, the girls friends must be incredibly jealous.
I saw Britannia when she was anchored off Swanage in the late 1960’s, the time when I was about 15 and we had a cabin cruiser. My Dad motored us past it, a great sight. Such a shame it’s now a museum piece, but the era of the Royal Family needing a yacht has passed, and it was an expensive luxiry to maintain.
I think most people in England consider Scotland to be a country, in fact we get very irate going into the USA and having to put “Great Britain” on the immigration forms. We come from “England”, the same as the Welsh coming from Wales, the Scottish from Scotland and the Irish from Ireland.
Looking forward to the next installment and to meeting you all next week…
Yes, we have seen a lot of Harry Potter, it was the top of Sarah’s wish list for the trip. She is one happy girl.
I hadn’t realized Britannia isn’t sailed any longer, as we didn’t board her, we only took shots from the outside.
Thanks for clearing up the country issue.
There now. It’s not really a yacht, is it! I think it really is a bit of an understatement for it to be referred to as a yacht. I mean really?
Would you call it a ship? I just doesn’t sound as impressive – The Queen’s ship.
Although a yacht is often thought of as a sailing ship, it is a term that also applies to a luxury private boat. The millionaires who have their own boats that moor up in Saint Tropez and Cannes in the South of France have luxury yachts.
Maybe we can get on one of those yachts when we are in the South of France – but I doubt it.
I always thought of Scotland as a country. Great pictures.
That’s my vote too, but then is Wales a country?
I just learned that Northern Ireland isn’t a country, it is part of Ireland and part of the UK. Now how does that work?
I could really confuse you and tell you the northern Ireland story all started with potatos!
Do tell . . .