July 23, 2104 – Edinburgh.

From my journal:
Slow morning at the apartment. Laura was gone quite a while moving the car to free street parking and walking home.

We took the bus up to the Castle. Long line, but we had fun visiting. Took the half-hour tour that started at 12:25. Then we walked in the buildings that interested us: St. Margaret’s Chapel (the oldest extant building in the city), the residence with the crown jewels and the royal apartments, the Great Hall, the War Memorial, the War Prison.

Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

View from Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle: The Great Hall.

Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle: St Margaret’s Chapel.

Cannons don’t kill people, castles do. Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

View from Edinburgh Castle.

Edinburgh Castle.

Walked the Royal Mile. Along the way I made a quick tour of the Writer’s Museum (Robert Lewis Stevenson, Robert Burns, and Sir Walter Scott, with the girls coming in to the see the RLS exhibit, and Laura and Emma saw The People’s Story Museum. Ended (for the WC) at the Queen’s Gallery (at Holyrood Palace, a royal residence). Walked over to the cemetery (The Old Calton Burial Ground) before catching the bus home.

The Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

St Gile’s Cathedral, The Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

Adam Smith vs. Labour Party pigeons. The Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

The Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

The Royal Mile, Edinburgh.

View from the the Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh.

Holyrood Palace (a royal residence), Edinburgh.

Holyrood Palace (a royal residence), Edinburgh.

The Old Calton Burial Ground, Edinburgh.

Laura fixed spaghetti and salad for dinner. At 9:00 we all watched the The Dawn of the Planet of the Apes at the Cameo Cinema – a one-hundred-year-old movie house.