Day 10 - UK 2013 (Edinburgh)

 

 

 

Today was day two in Edinburgh, we started the day off with a tour of the royal palace.  It's still used today at least once a year by the queen.  It's strange to think they actually sit in some of the ornate chairs, or use the silver set on show in the dining room.  But I guess if your a queen and don't use the nice stuff what's the point of having it.  Although the palace was neat to see the gardens were real neat.  Some awesome colors in bloom and everything so alive was real neat.   There was also remnants of an old Abby,  you could see the grand arches where stain glass must have once stood.  The place with the garden right next to it just gave you a feeling of awe.  The guide mentioned its many times painted or captured by artists and I can see why.

 

After the palace we headed toward the Scotland museum, but before we got there is stopped in a bookstore on the royal mile.  When I was a kid I was given four English adventure books, it was like pre Nancy drew.  The first one was called "the island of adventure".  Anyway the books were from a series of 6, so I took a look to see if I could find the other two.  I found one that I think I was missing so bought it.  Hope it's the right one.

Next stop the Museum of Scotland, parts of this place remind me of the smisonian in DC it shows evolution of cellphones for example.  Some other impressive items was the T-rex skeleton, and tones of other preserved animals and insects.  It had a lot of touch exhibits, it was perfect for both young and old.  And the café had a great banana split.

End of the day was the trip up to Inverness.  The landscape really changed,  a lot more mountains and trees.  They even have aspen up here.  We saw snow on some of the mountains so its definitely a bit chilly up here.  Tomorrow we go attempt to locate Nesse!