Today was a "down" day since Sharleen was a bit under the weather. Jet lag is a real thing and not to be taken lightly. It did give us a chance to walk down to Holyrood park just to look around and watch the people hiking the massive hills.
Holyrood park is a huge area just a few blocks from where we are staying and just a block from Holyrood palace and the Royal Mile we visited yesterday. It's a dormant volcano and is one of the prominent landmarks of Edinburgh. The highest peak in the picture is called Arther's seat.... I don't know why but that's what it's called. People use this park at all hours for walking, bicycling and running.
This is another area of Holyrood Park. For those of you who are old like us you may remember the movie Chariots of Fire. The ridge just below the rock uplift is where they filmed the scene of the young men running up a trail.
I got out there this morning and ran up the trail. I could almost hear the theme song as I climbed. I might have except for the panting and puffing. With all the noise I made no one could hear a thing!
How about this for a college dorm? Not like the one I know back home. It almost makes me want to go back to college and attend the University of Edinburgh...... almost!
This is just for Ella. The main transportation here is the bus. That's the way we get around town. Most of the buses are double Decker's.that's to say there are two floors as you can see here. Flat Ella took a ride on one yesterday and sat upstairs. She just loved it!
For those of you who are wondering about Flat Ella try googling Flat Stanley and see what you find.
Tomorrow we do an all day tour to the Scottish and English border to visit Roslyn Chapel and Castle. More tomorrow night if I'm not too tired. Till then we wish you all were here.
For those of you who have forgot you can enlarge the photos in this blog by simply clicking on them.
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