Day 149, 30 November 2012, Edinburgh - With our Edinburgh Passes finally expired (£155 of value from £83 spent), we were on our own today and didn't have to check out of the B&B until 11 am. Very slow morning indeed. Blessed with yet another fine, sunny, utterly freezing (0 degrees) day, we headed along the back streets to Charlotte Square and visited the National Trust's Georgian House property - on it's last open day til next March! Happy to be getting...

Day 148, 29 November 2012, Edinburgh, Monument "hill", Old Calton Cemetery, Grayfriars Bobby, St Giles (organ practice, angels playing bagpipes), Police Centre Museum (business card case made from the skin of William Burke, "Irish" serial killer), National Museum of Scotland (Dr Livingstone, I presume), Surgeons Hall Museum (book cover made from the skin of William Burke), Lloyds Banking Museum (the Museum on the Mound), Christmas Market, Lighting of the Christma...

Day 147, 28 November 2012, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Camera Obscura & World of Illusions, Working Tartan Mill, The Royal Mile (Closes & Wynds), Cocktail at Frankenstein's Bar, Mercat Ghostly Underground Tour, Mulled Cider and dinner at the Advocate, Cadies Murder & Mystery Tour (with Jumper Ooterers), Christmas Market preparations in full swing). As you can see from the list above, Edinburgh has gotten entirely out of control and we've been absolu...

Day 146, 27 November 2012, Chelmsford to Edinburgh (via Easyjet!), All important collection of Edinburgh Passes at airport, Edinburgh Zoo (Pandas!), Edinburgh Dungeon, Auld Reekie Niddry's Wynd Southbridge Vaults tour. We crept out of the house at 5.30 am in order to get to Stansted Airport far too early for our flight (and we made it with loads of time to spare!) EasyJet was a pleasant surprise and we arrived in Edinburgh 10 minutes early. As you can tell by ...