We arrived in Edinburgh on what must have been the windiest days of the decade. It was impossible to walk more than 5 minutes without getting something blown into your eye or almost falling over from the strong winds, so naturally we spent most of the afternoon and evening in various pubs within 5 minutes walk from our hostel. Luckily, the next couple of days, while still being quite cold and a bit rainy, were nowhere near as windy so we managed to see a bit of the city and do a day trip to St Andrews.
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| View of Edinburgh from a hill near Arthurs Seat |
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| View from our hostel. We could see the castle from the front door. Also, just about every coloured shop front in the picture is a pub. |
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| The dog (Bobby) is apparently the most photographed thing in Edinburgh (that is what our tour guide said anyway.) His owner was the night watchman at the nearby graveyard and when the owner died the dog kept coming back every night to sit at his grave. So the Scottish people (they are a little strange sometimes) decided to give him the keys to the city and the right to vote - over 30 years before women could vote! |
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| Andy at Edinburgh Castle |
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| Graffiti at the bathrooms in the Elephant House Cafe, where JK Rowling wrote some of Harry Potter. This particular message is instructions on how to get to Tom Riddle's Grave in the cemetery across the road. One of the girls at the hostel said she found it but we didn't try. |
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| The byrne running through the 18th fairway at St Andrews. (Andy told me that, I think it just looks like a nice river with a bridge.) |
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| Castle ruins. St Andrews |
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| Cathedral ruins. St Andrews |
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| St Andrews |
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| This sign out the front of a pub at St Andrews was enough to convince me it would be a good place for lunch. |
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