Edinburgh Day #1
[Photos from 23 September 2016, posted online 7 January 2017. Wondering if I should have a doc listen to my lungs.]
Adda is the opposite of me when it comes to traveling, as she likes to have things planned out in advance, whereas I usually don’t start planning until I’ve already arrived. Thus the trip was mostly planned out before we arrived, with breakfast and evening restaurants spotted/booked, so there was no time wasted! (42 images total)
Halli and Finnur in front of a church on our short walk from our apartment to downtown.
First stop: A breakfast stop frequented by locals. It looked a little bare.
The Three Amigos waiting for their breakfast.
Good stuff.
Trying to capture the street.
Trying to capture the tower.
I was there! This is at the entrance to Princes Street, the main shopping street.
Buses! So. Many. Buses! Also, can you spot the castle on the hill?
When in Scotland…?
Tourists.
Oh, look, a castle! Must have been a crazy construction project!
Birthday babies.
Adda and I now share a humongous shoe-size, commonly known as “Special Order”, aka 43. She’d cleverly ordered shoes for both of us to try on beforehand, because she is organized like that. This is not that shoe store, but one that tried to pass 42 off as 43.
At the far end of the garden that stretches along the castle-hill.
Up the stairs, and hey, a selfie-stick!
By the royal incorporation of crazy plant-locators.
Trying to photograph the strange split: A luscious low-lying garden with a castle on top, next to a busy shopping street.
We resisted.
We managed to agree on a lunch location, where I was handed the tiniest bottle of sparkling water, ever!
Still happy!
So. Much. Food!!
I just couldn’t get over that castle perched up on that hill!
A fancy chocolate store. I manged to buy nothing.
“Salted Caramel Cocoa Vodka”. Whaaaat?
Hey, look, it’s an improbable castle!
Most tourists would have walked to the castle hill, but we went the opposite way because Adda was on a music-instrument-buying-mission!
I may have neglected to mention that we did indeed do a bit of shopping, and poor Halli ended up lugging most of it behind him.
Store located!
It was aptly named too. We somehow managed to walk out with a bright yellow ukulele though!
Adda’s errand ended up taking a bit of time, so we hung out there for a bit.
This was the trip I (finally) succumbed to playing Pokemon Go, while Finnur and Halli stayed mostly in Ingress-land. Oh, AR!
We were all getting quite tired, so we took a taxi back to the hotel, to rest up a bit before dinner.
The view out the hotel window.
It was an apartment hotel with 2 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, living room, and kitchen.
The mostly unused kitchen.
The view out the back, into very different looking backyard-parcels.
Interesting shapes!
… and of course, the bathroom. You can tell a lot about a hotel by the bathroom, yes?
In the evening, we went to an African (inspired?) steakhouse.
This happened!
Afterwards, we let TripAdvisor guide us to a cocktail bar, which lived up to its reputation!
Diligently documenting the drinks!
We didn’t stay out too long, because why spend your vacation in bed?!
(Now, having experienced a mostly-planned trip, I now think I secretly wish someone else would do all the planning, and thus leave it until the last possible moment? Perhaps Adda should come with us on all our trips?! Hmmm… 🙂 )
