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Yesterday
What did I do yesterday?
According to twitter, I basically walked the Royal Mile, which actually takes more effort than you would expect.
I started with breakfast at a place called "Peter's yard", where I had the "Breakfast Basket", which, despite the name, does not come in a basket. What you get is a plate with 3 big chunks of bread, some sort of crispbread, some sliced cheese and some fruit conserves. Delicious, but I'm not sure what you're meant to do with the cheese.
After this, I headed off to the Royal Mile, and started walking down the hill.
I managed to find the Writers Museum, after realising that the map was quite wrong. The museum was OK, but it had one of those circular, stone stairs that scare the life out of me, and it took a lot of effort to get down.
Next was St Giles cathedral, which was a cathedral - you can tell that this sort of thing doesn't interest me much.
As I continued down the road, I got caught by a street magician doing the standard tricks with 3 cups and balls, though they were well done, and he had the patter down quite well. At the end, I got slightly confused about the getting money out of the crowd bit, and threw a pound in his hat before he was ready :).
The Museum of childhood was quite good, with all sorts of toys that I remembered from my childhood, and a lot of older ones.
Next were the "People Story" and "Museum of Edinburgh", which were pretty much as you would expect. The major thing about the Museum of Edinburgh was that the floors were incredibly creaky.
Reaching the end of the Royal Mile, I briefly considering going into the Scottish Parliament, but decided not to.
The Palace of Holyrood wasn't bad, though I went through it a bit quickly as it was approaching closing time, and I had also purchased tickets for the Queens Gallery.
The Queens Gallery had a show on called "Conversation Pieces", which is basically groups of people having conversations.
They were actually very interesting, and much better than the palace. I'm actually tempted to try to track down one of the pictures - a piece by Landseer called Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
According to twitter, I basically walked the Royal Mile, which actually takes more effort than you would expect.
I started with breakfast at a place called "Peter's yard", where I had the "Breakfast Basket", which, despite the name, does not come in a basket. What you get is a plate with 3 big chunks of bread, some sort of crispbread, some sliced cheese and some fruit conserves. Delicious, but I'm not sure what you're meant to do with the cheese.
After this, I headed off to the Royal Mile, and started walking down the hill.
I managed to find the Writers Museum, after realising that the map was quite wrong. The museum was OK, but it had one of those circular, stone stairs that scare the life out of me, and it took a lot of effort to get down.
Next was St Giles cathedral, which was a cathedral - you can tell that this sort of thing doesn't interest me much.
As I continued down the road, I got caught by a street magician doing the standard tricks with 3 cups and balls, though they were well done, and he had the patter down quite well. At the end, I got slightly confused about the getting money out of the crowd bit, and threw a pound in his hat before he was ready :).
The Museum of childhood was quite good, with all sorts of toys that I remembered from my childhood, and a lot of older ones.
Next were the "People Story" and "Museum of Edinburgh", which were pretty much as you would expect. The major thing about the Museum of Edinburgh was that the floors were incredibly creaky.
Reaching the end of the Royal Mile, I briefly considering going into the Scottish Parliament, but decided not to.
The Palace of Holyrood wasn't bad, though I went through it a bit quickly as it was approaching closing time, and I had also purchased tickets for the Queens Gallery.
The Queens Gallery had a show on called "Conversation Pieces", which is basically groups of people having conversations.
They were actually very interesting, and much better than the palace. I'm actually tempted to try to track down one of the pictures - a piece by Landseer called Princess Victoire of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.