We took a tour of Edinburgh Castle.
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| Walking up to the castle gates |
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| Looking down onto the New Town from inside the castle |
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| Quacker Jack and I couldn't believe how big this fire place is! |
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| Another HUGE fireplace |
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| This is a cannon that was used to protect the castle. |
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| Quacker Jack sits on the replica cannon balls. |
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| Saint Columba-we learned about him in Ireland. |
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| There was a very cool exhibit that featured prison doors from the castle. This gives information about American graffiti found on one of the doors. The graffiti below is from a Spanish prisoner. |
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| One final picture looking up at the castle before we headed out |
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| J just liked the looks of this door. |
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| This is the Royal Mile, a road that runs from the castle to the country estate of Holyrood House. |
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| Another sneaky close |
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| The castle as we moseyed through the New Town |
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| J ordered haggis with neaps and tatties at a pub for lunch. He swore it was comfort food. It looked like a jello mold of meat to me. |
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| The city walls in New Town. |
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| The castle |
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| The next day, we took a day trip to tour the Highlands. Here are some photos of our 400 mile (round trip) journey: |
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| Hamish, this Highland Cow. |
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| The weather was surprisingly nice for the morning stops. |
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| Our driver told us this scenery is in the James Bond movie, Skyfall. Daniel Craig drove his Aston Martin along this road driving to his house, Skyfall. |
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| Quacker Jack taking in the Scottish Highlands |
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| One of the many lochs (lakes) we saw on our tour |
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| Loch Ness and the castle there in the background along with Quacker Jack |
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| You can see the clouds in the background-the weather is changeable here. |
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| We hung out in the castle ruins at the beginning of the rainstorm. |
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| That's ye olden toilet in the guardhouse of the castle. Sick. |
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| Then, the storm really got to coming down |
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| Quacker Jack met some of his relatives on the banks of Loch Ness. |
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| This frame was supposed to hold both our big heads? |
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| After about 30 minutes, the weather cleared up nicely. |
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| We left Loch Ness and started to head back toward Edinburgh. |
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| We drove through the area of Scotland many scotch distilleries, but we didn't stop at any of them. Looks like we will have to make a trip back. |
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| We returned to Edinburgh, had a nice warming dinner at a pub and turned in for the night. We had an early train to Cork, England the next morning. |
