We had a fairly quite day looking around Edinburgh the rain stayed away for most of the day and we spent the day looking around the city, shopping and enjoying the park looking up at the castle. We booked to see Akmal the Australia Comedian he was pretty good the show went for 1 hour there was only about 20 people in the audience. We then decided to see another show as there are so many on with the comedy festival, we saw one with four comedians which was pretty...

We arrived late into Edinburgh, we caught the bus to town as we got of the bus it started pouring so we quickly pulled out our bag covers and umbrellas and tried to figure out which direction to go and of course it was up a lovely big hill. I remember saying while walking in the pouring rain up the hill " this is living " we arrived at our hostel yes hostel in our 14 bed dorm, not fun at all we are located right next to the door and its a loud wooded door that sl...

Today we went to the British museum ( Brett's idea not mine of course ) we stayed for about 45 mins good effort we thought. We headed on to Notting Hill there were markets there which we strolled through and had some lunch. We then headed home to do the laundry and pack our bags, for our early train (755hrs ) to paris :) Health status: annoying cough and runny nose :(

Today we decided to do a free walking tour. starting in Hyde park. We had a really great guide I think he was a actor he was really knowledgeable and talked as if he was there but in modern talk saying things about skyping and using your iPads in that day. It was a great tour we walked to Buckingham palace( the flag was the yellow queeny flag which means " the queen is the house", they said she is here for the colour of troops on Saturday which is to celebrate t...

Today we had another day of looking around London, we went to Buckingham palace for the changing of the guards we didn't get to see a lot, also in green park there was celebrations going on for the queens husband birthday (he is still in hospital from stomach surgery and having a mental blank on this name ),in the celebration there was lots of horses running around and they set off lots of cannon ball guns it was very loud and would seem scary if you didn't kno...