We let ourselves sleep in this morning, thankfully. We left late morning and made our way to the Royal Mile. We first made it a point to stop at the Birthplace of Harry Potter, (which I still need to read and watch), The Elephant House. It's a cafe and coffee shop very cutely decorated with elephants. We first stopped at the National Library, though there was barely anything there. They had a high tech exhibit that was more than disappointing. Not like the one in London, but is any library like London's?
Anyway, I had a latte at the cafe. It was so cute and warm inside, no wonder why J.K. Rowling drew inspiration to write.
Next we went to the National Museum of Scotland, where we spent a little over two hours in! It had a ton of stuff. Nothing I would say was commonly recognizable, but it was all really cool!
Replica of Mary queen of Scots tomb in Westminster Abbey.
We then ventured to the Palace of Holyrood House, where Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Victoria among others made residence. It is a working building and Queen Elizabeth II visits in the summer for residency. It's used for royal and governmental functions.
And it's beautiful.
It was so pretty! I loved everything about it. Neat history, too.
Then we tried to find this marshmallow place called The Marshmallow Lady. Alas, we gave up after going in circles. We walked like 13 miles today, so we thought that was enough. Plus it was like 5:30 p.m. at this point, and we hadn't eaten since breakfast.
But it was a pretty walk back along Princes Street:
We ended up stopping at a pub right across the hotel to finally eat. Steak and ale pie, yum!
Now we are trying to get rest before our flight out to London tomorrow! I'm going to miss you, Edinburgh!!!!
Cheers,
Kelli
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