I wrote this last night but couldn’t post it so I am making
use of the free wi-fi on the train – I love travelling 1st class!
We had a wonderful time in Inverness but I ran out of time to
write about it at the time.
On Tuesday we came to Edinburgh from Inverness via
Aberdeen. The weather was sunny and sky
and water were a beautiful blue. As we
approached Edinburgh, the weather deteriorated and it has been grey all day
today although not actually raining for most of the time. However there has been a very cold wind.
We had booked a serviced apartment as it was reasonably
priced and had a washing machine. The
office for the apartments is on High Street/The Royal Mile but our apartment
was supposed to be in a street called Blair Street. However Anna cheerfully accepted an upgrade
to a two bedroom apartment right on High Street. I wasn’t too happy as it was another scary
spiral staircase! Of course I don't know what the other stairs would have been like! In some respects this
was even worse than Marseilles, as the stairs were quite worn and uneven. Although it wasn’t as high! Then when I made it up the stairs, Anna and I
both fancied the same bedroom. We tossed
a coin and I lost out. My bed was fine,
but the blind was rather deficient. When
lying in bed, I had a view of a lit up building, which I believe is the
Balmoral Hotel in Princes Street. Anna’s
room looed out onto High Street, as did the living room.
We had a rather lazy start but wandered up the Royal Mile
past St Giles Cathedral to the Castle...
…and then down to Market Street from where we could look back
towards the Castle.
We had lunch at a shopping centre called Princes Mall on
Princes Street. We then took a bit of a
wander through the ‘New Town’ before we parted company.
I decided that I wanted to visit the Royal Yacht Britannia so
I caught a bus to the Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre. I was brought up with an interest in the
Royal Family – after all Prince Charles is only about a few days older than I
am! This is quite distinct from my
thoughts on whether or not Australia should be a republic.
I thoroughly enjoyed myself.
I found it fascinating to see the areas where the Royal Family lived
whilst on board and the areas where the crew lived.
This is a couple of views of the deck.
On my way back to the apartment, I even stopped off at a shop
I wanted to visit. As it was getting
dark when I was continuing my journey, I was worried I would miss the stop I
wanted. But I did get off at the right
spot and walked up North Bridge to the apartment. I was very pleased that I managed to achieve
this all by myself as I usually depend on Anna to tell me where to go.
Anna walked up Arthur’s Seat but she said it was so windy she
had trouble taking a panorama shot (or even keeping her footing), which she
likes to do.
No comments:
Post a Comment