{Travel} Night 4/Day 5-Pubs, Grub & Arthur's Seat

Welcome back to our Edinburgh adventure, if you read yesterday's post..you know we had a full day of touring the city. Catch up here if you're interested.  We wanted to check out the live music scene that night so after a dinner of Mexican food we stopped into a pub where the music sounded fun.

It was packed so we didn't take many photos.  The singer was Irish and did a good mix of popular songs and traditional Irish music.  We met some Eagles fans from our area who were actually on the Ghost/Ghoul tour with us and recognized Mr. Click from his Eagles hat.

We had a trip to Arthur's Seat planned for the morning.

OOTD

Sweater/Boots:Primark

Black Jeggings: Target (old)

It was about a 2 mile walk from our flat to Holyrood Park.

Arthur's Peak is the highest peak in Holyrood Park and the park itself is 640 acres.

It's an ancient volcano that sits 251m above sea level and offers the most spectacular views of the city.

We walked up pretty high.

It was super windy up there...

but the views were worth it.

It was a little cloudy and lightly raining and you could still see really far.

Mr. Click conquering the world.

I couldn't stop taking pictures in every direction I could see.

College Girl took this one of us.

After all of that hiking, we walked back into town for lunch at Pumpkin Brown's.

It was a sweet vegan cafe and we shared a rice bowl, pumpkin soup with the best bread and pumpkin hummus toast.

We wanted to some shopping since we were leaving the next day so we went back to Princes Street, walking through the park on the way there and back.

It's really such a beautiful city!

We also hit up some shops on Victoria Street (aka Diagon Alley).

We wanted to make it an early night and went to The Red Squirrel for dinner.

{Sweater:Anthro}

Veggie burger and fries were on point!  We made it an early night because we had to pack and get ready for DUBLIN!

to be continued..

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{Travel} Day 4-Edinburgh: Camera Obscura, Royal Mile & Harry Potter Tour

Day 4 of our trip and it was College Girl's first full day in Edinburgh and we had a very full day planned for her! To catch up on our journey, start here.  Mornings in our flat were my favorite when we'd put the gas fireplace on (it was nice for a glass of wine at night too!). How cozy is this?

OOTD on Day 4.

Skirt: Primark (last year)

Fleece Lined Tights (so good!) Primark

Long sleeved t-shirt: Target

Chambray Button Down (old)

Shoes: Tom's

Necklace: Thrifted

Another morning at Edinburgh Castle. Beautiful!

 Our first stop was Camera Obscura & World Of Illusions. This was a must see on so many lists.

 It's got 5 floors of interactive hands-on exhibits and it's definitely fun for any age!  The view from the top is spectacular.  You wait up here for the show and they let in about 20 people at a time for the show which is so cool!

 After that you can take your time and visit each floor and check out all of the mind bending exhibits.

 This was a fun one and an employee offered to take our photo.

It's all about perspective, right?

 After that, we strolled down the Royal Mile.

 There are so many little shops along the way where you can find tartan-everything!

 Some live music!

 We stopped for lunch at a pub that had vegan fish chips.  They were amazing!

 We didn't get to go into these buildings...we had to turn around to get to our next destination.

{The Parliament Building}

Walking back up the Royal Mile.

We had to get back into the center of town for The Potter Trail, Harry Potter walking tour. This was another highly recommended tour (and it's FREE!).

 Our tour guide Liv was awesome.  You start in the Greyfriar's Kirk cemetery.

JK Rowling wrote the Harry Potter in Edinburgh and the city has many ties to the books.  Like this plaque for a poet named McGonnagall who many have inspired a certain professor's name.

Liv handed out wands, I got to be the one in our group of three to hold it. We did a couple of spells while crossing streets.

 This is where the name Tom Riddell allegedly comes from.

Someone made this a Sirius Black memorial and someone else decided to cast a spell there.

This place claims to be the birthplace of HP (what is with that font?) but it's only partially true. She did write in this cafe sometimes but also in another one that her brother in law owned.    You can sign up to join Dumbledore's Army in their bathroom.  The business has to repaint the walls every year because they get so many signatures.

 Finally, you end up in what was most likely the inspiration for Diagon Alley.

Victoria Street, Edinburgh

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{Travel} Day/Night 3 Edinburgh -An Evening of Ghosts & Ghouls

Happy Monday and I'm back with more of our Edinburgh adventures, if you need to catch up, start here.

College Girl had arrived from Dublin and after we got her settled in the airbnb we showed her around our neighborhood.  We had to show her Edinburgh Castle of course.

The views around the castle....

You can even see out to sea from the top of the grounds of the castle.

It was late afternoon/early evening and we headed to dinner.

She liked the sound of the place we had gone the night before so we returned to Paradise Palm for dinner.

The food was just as good the second night and we got to try some new items on the menu. 

That night we went on a Ghosts and Ghouls Tour of Edinburgh.   From the website "the night begins with a walking tour of the darker closes and wynds of Edinburgh, before journeying into the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults. Finally we'll retire to a candlelit cellar for a dram of whisky and an evening of storytelling."  We met up at Mercat Cross.

This was our wonderful tour guide Fred.

Of course Mr. Click was chosen as one of the volunteers as she demonstrated some torture and lynching of two prisoners.

We visited some famous haunted Edinburgh landmarks and then went underground in to the Blair Street Vaults for more chilling tales.

These underground vaults are a series of chambers formed by the nineteen arches of the South Bridge.  They were used for years to house taverns, workshops for cobblers and other tradesman and storage space for merchants.  In later years they were inhabited by criminals.

The night ended in an underground tavern where we could try a dram of whisky.

Fred told us some stories of ghost sightings in the vaults. The stories were good, the whisky, not so much.

What a great first day/night in Edinburgh with our College Girl!!

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