28 July 2014
Our first shot at being tour guides in Scotland. Our friends, Ryan & Ronda, came over to visit for a week. As luck would have it, they had coincidentally booked the same flight as us back to the UK!
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| Ryan and Ronda joined us for our Philadelphia to Edinburgh flight on our way home from the States. Ryan was great at capturing Nico being himself as we boarded. |
Although I've been here more than a year, we haven't spent as much time seeing the rest of Scotland as we have working and seeing Edinburgh.
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| Welcome to my historic building workplace! |
Edinburgh Castle
I've seen it every day for a year and I finally got a chance to see it for myself from the inside! Beautiful views and lots of history. The hilltop has been occupied or had fortifications since at least the 1300s. I think that much history warrants its own post at a later date :) Here are some highlights:
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| View of the castle from the entrance area. |
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| Looking out at the city along one of the canons. |
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| Looking along the row of flags with the Firth of Forth in the background. |
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| Dog cemetery at the castle for regimental mascots and officers' dogs. The names we could read: Winkle, Yum Yum, and Sheena. |
One of the advantages of having friends in town is the excuse to try new restaurants. We went to Tuk Tuk (Indian street food) and had a good meal. The idea is essentially small dishes of food to share (like tapas). At the end, we were getting ready to pay and they said they had a special deal for everyone on Mondays: if you roll a die and get a 6, your food is free. We passed it to Ronda and she 'paid' for our meal by rolling a 6! Good food AND it was free!
