Well, we're here! We landed on time in Edinburgh at 3:40pm, so we had to kill some time since we had reserved the car at 5pm to give us more leeway getting it back to Heathrow next Monday. Since
After we got up to our room & dropped off our luggage, we headed out for the Royal Mile around 6:30pm, getting to the Mercat Cross near St Giles Cathedral about 7:15, so we'd just missed the hourly ghost tour we wanted. We went down the street a bit to eat at a nice little pub called the Royal MacGregor, where we both had Strongbow to drink, a smoked salmon salad, then he had chicken stuffed with haggis wrapped in bacon with a cream whiskey sauce, and I had the Haggis Tower! Gotta love that name! ;) It was just some haggis with mashed potatoes on top, formed in a cylinder, but both our meals were delicious! We also shared a traditional Scottish dessert called Carrochan, berries, oatmeal & whiskey cream, with whipped cream on top. We made it to the 9pm "Ghost & Ghouls" tour, which was PACKED, so even though it was still good, it was a bit too many people. It did its job of keeping us awake, but just barely! We walked back to our hotel along Princes St, which has the best views of the castle lit up at night, so of course we stopped for a few photos. After fighting with the dialup,
Until next time...