We had a great first day in Edinburgh. The overnight flight was uneventful and we landed about 7 am. We were not able to check-in to the hotel so we dropped off our luggage and spent some time at the nearby Holyrood Palace – the official Scotland residence of “Her Majesty the Queen”. Didn’t see her. Here are a couple shots of the outside of the palace: no photos inside allowed.
Credit; Cathy szelistowski
After a THREE hour nap, we went exploring the city. Edinburgh has a large “old town” that looks like something out of Harry Potter (more on that later). The touristy main road through old town is called the Royal Mile and is lined with kilt and tartan shops, restaurants, and bars. One one end is the palace and our hotel. On the other is Edinburgh castle. Most of the street performers for the fringe festival are along here and they are everywhere.
Rubbing the toe for good luck.
They give you a preview of many of the shows around the city. The actual performances are scattered at locations across the old town of the city. There are over 53,000 shows across 300 venues during the month. We saw one show today; an improv show from Baby Wants Candy” a ‘completely improvised, full band musical” It was a lot of fun and a good start to the week. We have tickets for about 6 more shows over the next 3 days
Food so far has been good. This pig provided our lunch and we had some nice pub grub on the main drag: venison stew.
Looking forward to trying some haggis and sticky toffee pudding sometime during the week.
More later
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