tuesday was the last day we had in edinburgh - we had our flight to dublin at 8 am on wednesday morning - so we tried to do everything we had yet to do.
we got up early on tuesday, ate breakfast and walked over to edinburgh castle in Old Town
all around the grounds of the edinburgh castle
inside the hall in the castle
there were not a lot of signs around directing the tourists were to go or explaining what each building of the castle was used to what (what its purpose was for).. there were free guided tours throughout the castle grounds but unfortunately i was very distracted by how "picture perfect" the castle grounds were that i didn't listen much to what the tour guide was discussing - i took pictures instead!
after we were done exploring the castle we headed over to greyfriars graveyard (during day light this time)
i heard the saying "graveyard are the parks of europe" and after walking through this graveyard during the day I now understand that this saying has truth - at least in edinburgh. as we walked through the graveyard we passed many people sitting on the benches reading and couples sitting on blankets with a picnic basket. we even saw two individual crack open a bottle of wine.. it was a little strange to me but i guess its normal to them.
after walking through the graveyard we walked over to the grass market (an other extremely old and historic area - where public hangings used to be performed).
late afternoon we went on a tour of historic edinburgh.. the history in this is incredible - i really enjoyed the tour. the tour walked us through the entire old town - from the grass market, to closes between buildings along the royal mile.. information overload! every building, every gate, every statue, even the parking lots had historic secrets behind them.
we then headed hiked up to arthur's seat!.. it may just look like a slight rolling hill, but i'll tell you.. the hike up arthur's seat was one intense climb!
late afternoon we went on a tour of historic edinburgh.. the history in this is incredible - i really enjoyed the tour. the tour walked us through the entire old town - from the grass market, to closes between buildings along the royal mile.. information overload! every building, every gate, every statue, even the parking lots had historic secrets behind them.
we then headed hiked up to arthur's seat!.. it may just look like a slight rolling hill, but i'll tell you.. the hike up arthur's seat was one intense climb!
a slight picture overload.. it was some tough work lugging a 10 pound camera in my purse on our climb up but i truly am glad i did.. very picturesque
our next stop! cold beer and food then we called it a night.
