Thursday 15 October It's nice to have a lie in morning. We get up and have breakfast in the kitchen and then come back to pack our things up and put them in storage. First stop: the greyfriers graveyard to see bobby and jacks grave. It's a high cloud, grey day. Next stop the castle. We go as far as we can without a ticket and check out the gift store and info centre. That done we second hand shop browse. There are 11 stores on the one street and a lot of them ...

Wednesday 14 October We head to the tour bus first thing. It's a beautiful clear sunny day. We get some breakfast from the supermarket in a mostly closed still mall and enjoy it in warmth and quiet. We decide on a tour bus and buy tickets. Off we go around the city. The guide tells us it's only about 60min. We decide to do round one with no stops. We have a small break at the end of tour one to sit in the park awhile. My legs are so cold from the open top bus. R...

Tuesday 13 October It's such a nice thing, time and privacy. We take our time eating and packing up. We take our bags with us and head back to the cathedral for more photos it's beautiful to sit in the sun. We head to the main square then along the river. At the bus station we figure out the next cheapest bus then head to a small park nearby for lunch. The bus trip isn't too long. Less than 2 hours. Edinburgh is amazing! Houses on hills and walled towns. Cobbled...

Monday 12 October We are up and waiting for the taxi in plenty of time and on our way by 6am. I have more bites again and not very happy about that. We are some of the first to get through and checked in. We have to wait awhile before boarding. There are lots of places to choose to sit on the boat and it's pretty empty compared to capacity. The ride is smooth and the glimpses of land beautiful. A great place to watch the sun rise. We are some of the first off a...

Sunday 11 October I'm pretty sure the bed has biting things. I wake up with bites I didn't bed with. We get up and have a cooked breakfast prepared for us. I meet a girl from Ireland who wants to study podiatry in Auckland. We head out and it's spitting so I go back for the umbrellas. We walk along the river to the titanic dockyard and centre and look around. We spend a few hours there before we head into town to check out the leaning clock tower and the city h...