Friday, July 1, 2016

Brexit

Welcome to another post that has been taken over by me Noah ha ha ha. On a real note  today has been more than a good experience. I will always look back on this trip and think of all the good that has come from it. If i wouldn't have gone i would have not been able to meet Justine the travel  director  Peter the coach drive for the first couple of days and Carl for the last, and the 29 other people on this trip. Thats besides the point today we traveled all over Edinburgh Scotland.


Edinburgh 

Edinburgh Castle
Edinburgh was a great experience. we  all stared with a tour of the city where Eddy our guide showed us around and explained the whole kilt and high socks on a man. Now do not mess with them they have knives in their boot. So think twice to call a kilt on a man a skirt...   


We went to see the change of guards and we witnessed the band that plays for the army play some songs. 






We have got see a castle older than 800 years and we got to go see where an actual king has been born! Ya a small room in the Edinburgh castle had a little baby born... The castle was a cool spot because the history of Edinburgh was rich if you just did a little research and to go to the castle it is all out in front of your  face and it is just a great experience just there. We saw the religious crown of Scotland the religious sword  and the staff. (sorry no pictures allowed). 


But we did get to see where Harry Potter Dinning Hall in the  movie was based off of.  After all of  sight seeing of the castle we went on The Queens  old boat named Britannia. That was an excellent time. It is now docked and created into a museum for anyone to go on board and check out everything on the ship that took many trips around the world.  

Partial view of the city from the castle

In the Great Hall (inspiration for Harry Potter dining room at Hogwarts)

More from the Great Hall 




Then we got lunch and continued our  trip around the city and got to see some very interesting sites around the city and we saw some more dudes in kilts and just fully immersed ourselves in culture. We saw the place where the first Harry potter was written in. It was a small cafe in on the corner of Queen Street. It's small and pretty cool  spot. The shop was called The Elephant House. Her words where "The Elephant House has magic  that is unexplainable".  After we grabbed a pint at some cool pub that all the locals love and then back to the hotel. Since it was the last night we had a nice dinner with everyone and said our good byes to some who are staying and some who are going their separate ways. It was very nice.
A personal favorite - t
wo reflections of us in the photo of the Queen's car stored on the yacht
(love the Corgi in the back seat)

It's been a fabulous trip!  Thanks to all for following!  See you soon!

4 comments:

  1. Woot woot! Thanx Sissy, hope you guys had the time of your lives! Love dad (doofus little brother) safe travels!

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  2. Can you tell I was tired last night after Work? Lol! Can't wait to see you guys tomorrow! Thanks Kath for giving him the trip of a life time! Xoxo

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  3. Looks like you had a great adventure! Welcome back!

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