Unfortunately due to the weather our trip to the Isle of May was cancelled so we had an unexpected full day in Edinburgh to fill. So we climbed things!

We started the day be heading to Holyrood Park, near the Palace and Scottish Parliament for a climb up Arthur’s Seat. John, mindful of his knee did a lower path to Salisbury Crag, while I did the main path to Arthur’s Seat. I figured out the last time I’d been up it was probably 1990 and it was January, foggy and there was no view!

But it was a clear day and so the views over the city, over the Firth of Forth and out to the coast were expansive. And everyman and their dog (literally: there were a lot of dog walkers as well as tourists) was there.

After lunch and a celebratory drink in The Dome, once a bank headquarters built in 1847 but now a flash bar, I climbed the Scott Monument in Princes Street. I didn’t realise that you could but there was a wee kiosk next to it that we had seen the previous day and so I couldn’t resist! So that provided another different perspective on things.

We are at Edinburgh Airport now having visited the City Art Centre near Waverley Station to fill in our morning. Stumbled on an exhibition by a British artist called Victoria Crowe which was great.

So here’s a few views of Edinburgh from our adventures yesterday.