On holiday, Scotland part Deux
It was a lovely day in Edinburgh today. Wind blowing none too hard, sun shining none too hot. At first I thought I'd need a coat, but I wound up carrying it all day when it warmed up. That'll teach me not to check the weather before I venture out!
Most of the day was Edinburgh castle again. Glad we spent time there as the construction last year was done and more of the castle was open to visitors. The lower defenses and so on were all open. It was a lot of fun to see all that again, and of course I took pictures.
Ah pictures... that reminds me. I did manage to score a camera. I found a store called a catalog store that reminded me of a Service Merchandise mixed with ebay. Neat place and well run. I picked up a really nice camera that should last me a long time. Which I would hope since it cost me 119 pounds sterling. Not that I had a lot of options (it is tourist season here).
Anyway, today was a tour and walk through of Edinburgh castle and pics of the sights. Nice relaxing trip. After that we toured a textile mill that makes tartans. The most interesting was when I got to talk to one young lady that works there about tartans themselves. I never in my wildest dreams thought there was over 4000 tartans in the world today with more showing up all the time! But in any case, the process for making tartans is complicated with the thread count and layout being quite particular. I manged to get a couple of photos of the loom weaving some tartans, Bannochburn and Stewart I think.
As the castle tends to take all day to tour, that was most of today. Got a good meal at a nice pub named Albannach, specifically it was a scottish beef stew (to which I had a coffee with it).
Tomorrow will be tours of the underground, John Knox' house and several nearby churches and cathedrals. At the end will be Hollyroodhouse Palace... if none of the British Royals are in residence there right now that is.
More tomorrow... then Wednesday.. on to Inverness!
Most of the day was Edinburgh castle again. Glad we spent time there as the construction last year was done and more of the castle was open to visitors. The lower defenses and so on were all open. It was a lot of fun to see all that again, and of course I took pictures.
Ah pictures... that reminds me. I did manage to score a camera. I found a store called a catalog store that reminded me of a Service Merchandise mixed with ebay. Neat place and well run. I picked up a really nice camera that should last me a long time. Which I would hope since it cost me 119 pounds sterling. Not that I had a lot of options (it is tourist season here).
Anyway, today was a tour and walk through of Edinburgh castle and pics of the sights. Nice relaxing trip. After that we toured a textile mill that makes tartans. The most interesting was when I got to talk to one young lady that works there about tartans themselves. I never in my wildest dreams thought there was over 4000 tartans in the world today with more showing up all the time! But in any case, the process for making tartans is complicated with the thread count and layout being quite particular. I manged to get a couple of photos of the loom weaving some tartans, Bannochburn and Stewart I think.
As the castle tends to take all day to tour, that was most of today. Got a good meal at a nice pub named Albannach, specifically it was a scottish beef stew (to which I had a coffee with it).
Tomorrow will be tours of the underground, John Knox' house and several nearby churches and cathedrals. At the end will be Hollyroodhouse Palace... if none of the British Royals are in residence there right now that is.
More tomorrow... then Wednesday.. on to Inverness!
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