Last Saturday, we rented a car and went to Edinburgh for the day and evening. We started just south of Edinburgh to visit an Iron Age fort that is basically a grassy hill now with a ditch going around it and an underground cellar. Even though there wasn't much to see of the fort, the views from the hill were still beautiful. While we were there, a bunch of mountain bikers were coming through on some sort of scavenger hunt race. So mountain bikers do exist here!
After the fort, we drove into the city to pay for really expensive parking in order to see the castle. If you've never seen it, the castle truly is impressive and makes for wonderful photography. However, it is extremely touristy. We were glad we have the Historic Scotland pass (it's like the National Parks Pass but for castles) because we thought buying a single ticket is way overpriced for what you get. We both preferred Stirling Castle (so far).
From the castle, we made a pit-stop at the Elephant House which is where J.K. Rowling wrote some of her early novels (so they say). We didn't stop there just for the nostalgia but it was a nice place to get a cup of tea (and talk about Harry).
The next stop was the National Museum of Scotland where we ran into Dolly, the cloned sheep!
We then spent the evening eating dinner at Nick's colleague's place in Edinburgh. Their flat was built in the last 10 years which is quite the contrast to our 100+ year old place!
On Sunday, we drove up to Glen Clova and did this gorgeous 8K hike up and around Loch Brandy. Even though the temperature was nice, it got extremely windy as evidenced by my hair looking like I'd just been electrocuted. (Nick discreetly captions the picture 'It was windy') As usual, Nick took some gorgeous pictures.
We go to Inverness next weekend so stay tuned for more pictures! Here are the ones from last weekend.
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