• Scotland,  United Kingdom

    Edinburgh

    Although the forecast for Edinburgh and the whole of Scotland for the next week or two (ie: the duration of our stay) is for lots of rain, we had some sunny skies on arrival in Edinburgh. Having arrived late afternoon, we only took a walk around Edinburgh the following morning. First stop was the Castle (where it started raining), then down The Royal Mile… … popping into Saint Giles’ Cathedral … … before arriving at the Palace of Hollyroodhouse (Queeny’s official residence when in Scotland). We were offered, and accepted, a free audio guide (we don’t normally as we have the attention span of gnats) and actually found it quite…