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Aye Laddies and Lassies. Edinburgh we are.

Another Christmas shop!!
Today we dropped off our big monster van, phew, it was good but glad to it is back to the owners now. We caught a light rail into the main city area of Edinburgh to drop our bags off at the motel so we could go exploring.

Divinity college

We wandered around down towards Princes St where there is a big display setup for Christmas. It covers a large area and is really cool. It has food, shops rides and Booze outlets. It was nice to wander around and find unique stuff. As usual Lizabeth was in her element!!



She was brave and went up the Big Circle so we could have a look around the city from up high.


views from the top

We found some lunch a little stall, so I decided to try some black pudding with my pork burger. It was actually pretty good. We were told it was good, better than haggis I reckon.
Black pudding

Feeling brave we decided to walk up to Edinburgh castle to check it out. A bit uphill most of the way an even in there it is uphill walking around. It is a massive setup and as you can see was well defended with cannons everywhere. It is the home to Royal Scots Dragoons and Soldiers.




We has a look through the memorabilia most of which is military and big on history. This one piece a saddle was worn in the battle of Waterloo! Pretty cool history stuff. It was great seeing all the uniforms and swords etc.


saddle from battle of Waterloo

We also ventured into the the vault which holds the Scottish Crown Jewels. None of which are active anymore since Scotland and England joined forces. Cool nonetheless.

We went down into the prison area which was used all the way up until WWII for prisoners. Mostly it used for captured sailors during the past wars with the French and other invaders.


Checkout this beauty of a cannon. It's huge and was used to blast down castle walls with the massive cannon balls.

That was enough for today so off we toddled back to our motel for deserved rest.
random stuff


at the castle on dark
Watch the video here of Liz and the Pict (Scottish warrior of old) and her at the street market.
https://youtu.be/gP7Dmao9vGs
Till next time. Keep living your dreams all.....

Rob & Liz



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