Temperature: Min 9°C; Max 20°C.
Weather: Overcast with patches of rain.
We had coffee and breakfast at a cafe across diagonally across from our accommodation.
After breakfast Scott found we were only a block from the main square where we could get a hop-on-hop-off bus. He got day tickets for us, so we hopped on one that would take us on a nice loop of the city. The tour guide was Grant, and I must say he was great. He was personable, knowledgeable, and would find out our interests and point things out based on what we might like. We took the bus for its entire circuit, then took the next bus back to Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh Castle was under siege of tourists. I’ve been before, and it was nothing like this! (Sure, it was almost 20 years ago.)
Mum was able to get a car to the top rather than walking, so my father and I accompanied her and we met up with Scott and Eskil there. If anything, it was even more crowded inside the castle.
We stuck it out and had a look around for and hour or two then escaped back to Haymarket for some lunch at a cafe. Eskil took a photo of his MorMor and MorFar!
It was a busy day so far for Eskil! He fell asleep while we were waiting for a bus that would take us to Leith where the Royal Yacht Britannia is docked. Mum was the only one really interested in seeing it, so the rest of us had coffee and a snoop around the large shopping mall where it’s docked.
When MorMor met back with us we found out she hadn’t had enough time to go over the ship, however she’d had a look around the displays. We hopped a bus back to ‘our neighbourhood’. A busy day!
WiFi in the flat was terrible; I could only steal WiFi from the public institution across the street if sitting close to the window near reception. The one advantage to that though is the gentleman on reception that evening we very helpful in recommending not just accommodation for the next night but also a route to drive. Nice!
More photos can be viewed at https://www.flickr.com/photos/cragg-ohlsson/archives/date-taken/2014/07/02/ and https://www.flickr.com/photos/cragg-ohlsson/archives/date-taken/2014/07/03/ however the order is all over the place as unfortunately I had left my camera time set to Australia and my phone had reset the time to UK time.