Edinburgh Scotland!!

We love Edinburgh! We arrived on a beautiful sunny day, at 8:30 in the morning
with no sleep the night before! We found a tourist info place and got a map of the town. The lady showed us a good way to get to our hostel – it was on the other side of the castle, and if we walked one way it would be downhill, the other up! We still took the wrong one….We ended up walking uphill until we thought we were going to collapse and roll all the way back down! We made it eventually, the hostel is quite Australian themed (a little annoying because we were in Scotland!), but clean and fun! We dumped our bags at the hostel and headed out to find a big coffee. We started walking towards town (the downhill way), and we stumbled across a few vans with some sports teams getting in…hmm we say, who could this be?? We looked on the vans and it was the Kenya, Samoa and Argentina rubgy sevens team….as we walked by, who popped out of the hotel but the All Blacks!

We asked when the games were and headed off on a new mission: Coffee and Rugby tickets!! We got Starbucks (yay!) and walked right around town looking for the ticket office. No luck. So, what shall we do – more walking!! We came across some of the oldest, spookiest graves we have ever seen – complete with green moss and shady buildings. The gravestones are so interesting and we could have spent ages walking through the historic cemeteries.

We kept moving and skirted around the outside of the town. We passed the castle (where the royal family stays when in Scotland), and it was all closed up. Why? We asked the guard….we had missed Prince Chuck by about two hours!! He had been staying all weekend, “good riddance” the guard said! Not like the Royal Guard at Buckingham here…. We saw a mountain ahead, and having nothing else to do thought we would do the climb to Arthur’s Seat, one of the high lookout points. We got halfway and remembered we had had no sleep the night before, and only coffee and muffins since…..so we headed back into town for some lunch. We found the rugby ticket info at the tourist office, and bought weekend passes over the phone – concessions were free with an adult ticket, so we got a whole weekends entertainment for 16 pounds!