Edinburgh (pronounced Ed-in-burah)The city is located in a bowl, with high hills on one side leading down to the North Sea with a huge craggy hill in the middle with the Castle at the top.
Here is the castle from the large public park at its base.
If you climb up to the Castle you can get a great view out to the sea: you can see the park (see above) at the lower edge of the photo with Princes Street (shopping!!) being the first horizontal road after the park.
For 2 pounds 50p you can get an all day bus pass (i highly recommend it), we bussed out to Firth of Fourth inlet where we all got some bracing sea air!
Walking back up towards the Castle from the shore we stopped in the Royal Botanical Gardens (more photos later, Bloggers' photo format is making me angry.). From the top of the rock garden you can see back into town.
So we lucked out with weather, it only rained for a bit when we first arrived then turned into a gloriously sunny blue sky day (shocking, i know.) But Edinburgh is very suited to an overcast day, full of blackened gothic architecture (see the Sir Walter Scott's memorial for a prime example), shady alleys, with the castle looming up in the distance-its no wonder it's full of ghosts and horror stories! This is a great little church and cemetery in that park at the foot of the castle.
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