Day 17

As expected, the sleep was average again. Didn’t need to worry about my sleeping towel this time, as we woke up TOO DAMN EARLY. My reli’s were up and about already. Must have something to do with having kids.

We left for the airport at around 7:15 and were met there by almost all of dad’s side of the family. It was a very touching moment for all, but sadly nearly made us late for our flight. But we got to the plane, and made it successfully to Edinburgh. Our pilot sounded like Lee (if that doesn’t make sense to you, then come to Wednesday night sports)! Hour and a half flight. Yes!

As expected, the EU passport holding members of our party (everyone but Sandra) went into the EU line, and Sandra had to go into the other line with her arrival card. Despite her line being 10 times smaller than ours, they only had one dude manning their desk, so we actually got through before her.

The bus into Edinburgh city was awesome for no other reason than it had free wifi! When we got into the city centre, we saw just how old and grand this city is. It looked spectacular.

After getting a nice healthy lunch (KFC) at the nearby food court, we went up to the apartment we were staying in. Although, to get there we had to go up the stairs of doom (with suitcases...)

Once we got up the top though it was ok – hooray for wheeled luggage! Unfortunately we had to go up a long spiral staircase to get to the apartment (again, with suit cases). Edinburgh loves their stairs.

The apartment was great though. Nice, modern, wifi, no church and a proper bed - what more do you need! So far, liking Edinburgh.

The apartment guy suggested doing Edinburgh castle while the weather was good, so that was our next destination. For those who don’t know Edinburgh, the stretch between the Edinburgh castle and the royal palace is called the Royal Mile. Our apartment is on the Royal Mile, near the castle side, so it was awesomely close (to lots of other things to!).

The castle was awesome. It was really old, and full of history. It looked cool too. They fire a cannon there at 1pm every day (except Sundays), as a way for boats to tell the time (this is for tradition, rather than being practical anymore).

The rest of the day was spent doing some food shopping, eating in, chilling out and going to bed. The Edinburgh comedy festival gala was rerunning on TV which was awesome. Nice way to wrap up the night, ready for another big day.