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Breakfast in Edignburgh
After breakfast we got advice from the desk clerk at the hotel. She sent us downstairs to the EE phone store to get SIM cards so we could use our phones. The price was reasonable, and this would allow us to use our phones outside of wi-fi. This was pretty much only for data, though, or emergency local calls. And Cyn's didn't work anyway.
Then we walked around town a bit. I stopped in a bookstore to get a map of Scotland. We caught a glimpse of the filming of a TV show or movie. A black muscle car making noise in an alley. I decided we should go around the castle.
This is what people do in Scotland on those rare sunny days, apparently.
We walked through an old cemetery, and came out into a park.
Ross Fountain in Ross Park.
Then we drove to the town of Linlithgow and toured Linlithgow palace.
We had been in Scotland for two days, and I still hadn't been able to get cash. I was starting to worry. I needed cash for the B&B's. It would take about two hours to tour the palace, but after an hour I was getting antsy. It was like, more stone rooms? But Cindy wanted to see more stuff. And when I finally started to feel like we could leave, I discovered some more places that actually seemed interesting, like the chapel was nice, and they had a display of very old items that had been unearthed.
It's in ruins now, or at least there's nothing left but stone.
It had this fabulous fountain. It was built in 1527. It was in pretty bad shape, so around the turn of the century they restored it, replacing most of the stonework, but it's still awesome.
So when we finally left, we drove to Glasgow. I had wanted to see the Glasgow Necropolis, but we got there too late. It was already time for dinner. So we happened to find some free street parking (at 6:00) and went to a whisky pub. The food was good, and I had a good whisky. Then I realized it was after 7:00, and I was supposed to check in at the B&B by 8pm. I Googled the route and it said an hour and a half. I'd sworn it would take only about 45 minutes, but I e-mailed the guy to tell him we'd be late, and we rushed out. It turned out to take only 45 minutes.
Anyway, we didn't get to see Glasgow at all, except on the three-block walk over the freeway to the restaurant.
After breakfast we got advice from the desk clerk at the hotel. She sent us downstairs to the EE phone store to get SIM cards so we could use our phones. The price was reasonable, and this would allow us to use our phones outside of wi-fi. This was pretty much only for data, though, or emergency local calls. And Cyn's didn't work anyway.
Then we walked around town a bit. I stopped in a bookstore to get a map of Scotland. We caught a glimpse of the filming of a TV show or movie. A black muscle car making noise in an alley. I decided we should go around the castle.
This is what people do in Scotland on those rare sunny days, apparently.
We walked through an old cemetery, and came out into a park.
Ross Fountain in Ross Park.
Then we drove to the town of Linlithgow and toured Linlithgow palace.
We had been in Scotland for two days, and I still hadn't been able to get cash. I was starting to worry. I needed cash for the B&B's. It would take about two hours to tour the palace, but after an hour I was getting antsy. It was like, more stone rooms? But Cindy wanted to see more stuff. And when I finally started to feel like we could leave, I discovered some more places that actually seemed interesting, like the chapel was nice, and they had a display of very old items that had been unearthed.
It's in ruins now, or at least there's nothing left but stone.
It had this fabulous fountain. It was built in 1527. It was in pretty bad shape, so around the turn of the century they restored it, replacing most of the stonework, but it's still awesome.
So when we finally left, we drove to Glasgow. I had wanted to see the Glasgow Necropolis, but we got there too late. It was already time for dinner. So we happened to find some free street parking (at 6:00) and went to a whisky pub. The food was good, and I had a good whisky. Then I realized it was after 7:00, and I was supposed to check in at the B&B by 8pm. I Googled the route and it said an hour and a half. I'd sworn it would take only about 45 minutes, but I e-mailed the guy to tell him we'd be late, and we rushed out. It turned out to take only 45 minutes.
Anyway, we didn't get to see Glasgow at all, except on the three-block walk over the freeway to the restaurant.
