Day 27 and 28 June 1 and 2 Edinburgh

We've spent the last couple of days touring around Edinburgh, visiting museums, galleries, walking... today we leave and go back to Glasgow, then fly home tomorrow.

Our hotel, the Royal Scots Club in New Town

Walking toward Leith, Edinburgh's port

Scotland Street

Old railway tunnels

Water of Leith  path

Leith 

Britannia 

A bit of Canada...

The Gladstone house, a National Trust museum in Old Town.  In the kitchen, c1620

Kitchen again

Bedroom, with painted ceiling

Chair, dated 1610

Georgian room in the museum, c1740

Exterior of Gladstone House

Inside the National Museum of Scotland

The palace of Holyrood house

Small building on the palace grounds, once part of Mary Queen of Scots private gardens

The new Scottish parliament

Day 26 Tuesday May 31 Aberdeen to Edinburgh

Some views from the train from Aberdeen to Edinburgh

The Tay railway bridge

Princes Street looking toward the National Gallery

One of the places that claims Harry Potter

Edinburgh Castle

The Castle in the background, Grassmarket in front

From the National Gallery, looking toward the Scott Monument, and the hotel where Harry Potter was also written...

Houses on the way up to the Royal Mile

Advocates Close, a narrow lane off the Royal Mile

Some modern additions to the Old Town, also off Advocates Close

Part of the John Rebus tour...

Which had to include a visit to the Oxford Bar

Day 25 Monday May 30 Aberdeen

Sandy in front of her grandmother's  house in Aberdeen

A visit to Crathes Castle outside Aberdeen 

Lunchtime entertainment

View from the top of the castle.  No photography allowed inside the castle, but very interesting interiors and displays

View in the other direction, over the gardens and croquet lawn

So many beautiful spots in the garden...

Inside the Victorian greenhouses

Herbaceous borders

Rose garden

Some of the yew hedges are over 200 yo

The fountain garden

The boys are ready 

Makes it tough for the map readers...

Our beautiful B&B, with wonderful hosts Brenda and Stuart Cheetham.

Tomorrow we're off to Edinburgh for a few days.