Got up

There appeared to be a game of chicken in the dorm, relating as to who would be the first to get up. I didn't lose.
After getting up, I showered and headed out to find breakfast, but didn't find the cafe I wanted so carried on walking to the tourist information to pick up some leaflets.
After that I decided to walk half the royal mile to the castle, bit got intercepted by a cafe doing breakfast of sausage, bacon, haggis, potato scone, etc.
After breakfast, completed walk to castle. Not bad as castles go and I just managed to catch the one o'clock gun, but the weather is wet and windy, so the entire world looks very grey.

After the castle

After I finished with the castle, I started back down the Royal Mile. The first interesting thing I encountered was the camera obscura. Despite this sort of being deprecated on AFP, I went in. As the weather was bad and camera obscura's don't work too well on inclement weather, I got a discount. The CO itself actually worked quite well and was interesting. In addition, they had a museum of optical toys, etc that was also worth the price. The only problem was the long climb to the top and then back down again.
After this, I had a quick look at the wool mill exhibition, which was a bit of a disappointment.
I then decided to try to find fabhatrix, which wasn't that hard. I had done a bit of wandering earlier, and missed the hat shop by a simple corner. They had a nice selection of hats, and while I didn't buy any this time, I think I will go back and buy a couple. There were a variety of hats there - some very close one ls that remind me of the sort of thing that flappers would wear, and some that were more like top hats. I think I am in love.
Dinner was at Monster Mash again, but I had the steak and kidney pie, which was frankly disappointing.