WOW!!! Would go again

Monday 24th August - Edinburgh Tattoo We met up with Jill and Ron and had dinner with them and caught up with what they have been up to these last few weeks. Was nice. We went into the city on the bus and sorted out where we have to go tonight for our seats at the Tattoo. We also went and picked up our Souvenir Tattoo Book. There weren't so many people as there has been over the weekend so was much easier to walk up to the castle. We just wandered about and ...

Sunday 23rd August pm We had our beers and went back down the hill to the Grassmarket, not a blade of grass in sight but a big square that had markets and stalls everywhere. There were not so many people around today as there were yesterday so it didn't feel so claustrophobic. There was a stall maned by a young Spanish couple and they had the two biggest paella pans I have seen and they were selling the lovely looking food like hot cakes. These pans would ha...

Sunday 23rd August - Hop on Hop off bus We had decided to do the Hop on Hop off bus thing today and as we knew where the buses left from headed in that direction and went to Costas for a coffee first. There are 4 different coloured buses and you buy a ticket for one colour, meaning one route or all four which we felt was a bit of a wrought so picked the green service and climbed aboard. We went past the the Palace and the Parliament and headed up the Royal M...

Sunday 23rd August - Edinburgh We went back to Toby Carvery for breakfast thinking that we would use their wifi, as our hotel wifi doesn't work in our room. Alas we weren't able to use theirs either as we needed a telephone number to log into theirs and not having one that made it too difficult. Went back to our hotel to have a go at their wifi in the lobby and although Jannie managed to get on I didn't have any success. Result no blog today. We drove ...