This was a more relaxing day as we had already seen all the major major sights in Edinburgh (i.e., Castle and Palace). First, we walked uphill to downtown (about a 15-20 minute walk) and split up - Katsu and Andrew went shopping while I went and saw the Real St Mary's Close. This is a cool place. Basically, as I said, Edinburgh is VERY hilly and there are these narrow narrow streets that run between major streets called closes. Buildings are very high on one side (closer to the river), but not so high on the Royal Mile. So, they decided to build a new building back in the 1700's and instead of wiping out the building and closes underneath, they just left them there and just knocked off the top stories of the buildings. Then, they built the new building and the tiny narrow streets were just forgotten and buried underground. Now, you can tour one and they tell you about life back then and some "true" ghost stories - well, as in how they were originally told back then. It was lots of fun for me!
We took another bus tour down around New Town. We had planned on picnicking in the local park, but it was a private park, so we ate on the steps. We were going to tour an example home of the 1800s (the Georgian house), but Andrew was antsy so we went off to find a park. Luckily, we found a great one in the Princes St Park (this used to be the Nor' Loch where my great-great-something grandfather was baptized back in the 1800's). Andrew LOVED it, even when it was raining. At least we got to enjoy the views.
We took another bus up to the Holyrood Park to get a little taste of Scotland. I can't believe how serene and beautiful this park is just right next to downtown Edinburgh. We took the stroller as far as the paved path went and then Andrew and I rested down below while Katsu climbed up further the "mountain", Arthur's seat. Scotland really is beautiful.
We walked all the way home!!! And then relaxed away. We were going to go to the botanical gardens but I was just TOO tired.
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