Today is our last day in Edinburgh. Our flight was early evening so we had all day to stroll around and so we did. Making photos down town, doing a bit of last minute shopping etc.
Looking up West Bow.
We walked up to the castle and then down in to the West Princes street gardens. The view from there was great.
We had a quick photo shoot stop on a bridge crossing the train tracks.
We saw a squirrel!
View towards the mound.
We still had to get 1 ride on the ferris wheel by day light.
There we go! Just incase you are wondering. That is NOT my comb-over ;-P
This is Bobby. The story tells that it was Mr. John Grey's dog. After Mr. Grey died and got buried, Bobby watched his grave for another 14 years, until he died himself. Bobby was rewarded with a statue for this and was also buried in the graveyard behind the pub that was also named after the pair.
However, the part of Bobby belonging to Mr. John Grey and watching his grave has been proven untrue by recent research, the facts are really slightly different. But, the story of Greyfriars Bobby is so ingrained that any revisionism has gone unnoticed. And so the story lives on.
Wikipedia article here.
And then we walked back to the B&B one last time and so a beautiful, fun, active and adventurous little holiday ended. I have enjoyed my time here with Marjolein very, very much. We've seen and discovered awesome things and met a few very nice people.
Special thanks to Chic for touring us around the Borders last Friday which was awesome!
2 comments:
thanks for this great series of travel blogs - enjoyed reading it tremendously!
Scotland has just moved up considerably on my list of places to revisit!
@ Renate: Thanks! It was great fun to put the blogs together :-)
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