Today we went on a walking tour of the city. We kept a pretty tight circle of the city an didn't cover too much ground but we did learn a ton more stuff about the city. Unfortunately I didn't take too many pictures but I did take a few. The tour took about 3 hours and it was freezing and raining. Despite that, it was still really amazing to see the city. This is also where we discovered our knack for tour guides with odd spellings of their names. The castle tour guide's name was Graeme (Graham) and this tour guide's name was Kiel (Kyle). He was also Australian, which didn't make a ton of sense. (This is tour 3 by the way).
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| View of the castle from the Grassmarket square. |
After our tour we went to explore the National Museum. We didn't have a lot of time before they closed but we were able to see a whole floor. It was really amazing to see all of the old Scottish artifacts and how people lived hundreds of years ago. I also learned that I am absolutely in love with Celtic symbols and drawing. I think it's so beautiful.
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| A bit of graffiti near our hostel. |
When we were finished at the museum we went to a grocery store to get dinner and food for our tour the next day. We bought mainly junk food because we had no way of storing real food. (We also bought apples to balance ourselves out). We headed back to our hostel and ate dinner and relaxed for the rest of the evening because we were exhausted from our tour earlier in the day.
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| View of the train station. |
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| A model of the city made so people who are blind can experience the beauty of Edinburgh. |
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| View of the city from the bottom of the hill. |
JessLynn
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