Saturday 25th November 2023.
The day started with a frost and a temperature of 0 degrees and when we returned at 6.30 pm it was zero again and only reached a maximum of 5 degrees during the day, we had to keep moving to stay warm, in total we walked 7.6 miles around Edinburgh.
We are visiting Edinburgh both to have a break and also to celebrate Michelle’s birthday and visiting this city was on her bucket list.
We travelled to and fro into Edinburgh from the site by minibus a service that runs all week and worked well taking us right into the city centre.
We commenced our walk about in West Princess Street gardens where there is currently a fairground in the centre, we walked steeply uphill to join the Royal mile and turned left to the castle, the queues to go in were about 50m long and there were several hundred people queued up to go in. We have long accepted that travelling with Layla often means we can’t access a lot of historic buildings ( or certain cafes, restaurants and shops) but it’s a small price to pay for the joy she bringsshe was a star today walking through crowds of people where all she sees are knees😊 She does get a lot of fuss off strangers. We knew we could take her into The Camera Obscura and headed back down the Royal mile to it, however again there was a 20 minute wait to get in and when we saw it cost £22 each to go up we decided to give it a miss.
We walked the length of The Royal Mile to reach the ScottishParliament building and The Palace of Holyroodhouse, sadly Hollyroodhouse wasn’t open at weekends. We zig zagged back and forth across the city taking in the sights and finding somewhere to eat.
One of the Michelle’s aims for the day was to see the city in lights and as our minibus wasn’t leaving until 6 pm we had a chance to see the city slowly go dark.
We had a very enjoyable day and will leave with good memories of Edinburgh.
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