one more from edinburgh

Last night i went out again with Jess and a few other girls from the hostel. Went to the bar with £1 drinks (and jelly shots!) and then on to Frankenstein the funny club. Drinks in test tubes?? and about 15 mins before it closed a robotic frankenstein was lowered towards the dance floor. he sat up, looked around then lay back down again and was taken away! Very odd...

This morning i headed down the end of the Royal Mile to the Holyrood House - the queen's scotland residence. Quite expensive to go in, but there was a free audio guide so that was good. Everything is so highly decorated it's so.... opulent or something. But bare at the same time. These large rooms with minimal furniture. I wonder if its just for display purposes or if they're really furnished like that. There are the ruins of an old abbey outside with are kind of eery. Apparently the roof caved in.

Later i decided to head up Salisbury Crag. That was so incredibly steep!!!!!! Walk that every day and a marathon would be easy. Good views though.

The palace from the crag

After coming back down i was sitting in teh park and a Pipe and Drum band came past!!! So exciting!!!!!! I love bagpipes.... and i realise many of you think i've got a problem for actually liking them! no idea why they were playing, but they had a police escort too.

So tomorrow morning i go on my tour. Not looking forward to getting my bag up to high street. Never realised how up and down Edinburgh is, but apparently its situated on 7 hills. Can't remember if i said but the castle is actually on top of an extinct volcano.