Girls Gone Wild in Edinburgh

While Sean was at a stag do in Paris, Shannon headed to Edinburgh for a girls trip.

 Shannon, Laura, Emma, a bagpiper and Larns. We had hoped to make it to a ceilidh on our first night, but it was sold out, so we decided on a pub crawl and way too many curry chips instead. We paid for that the next day, but braved the fresh air to visit the sights.

 

Edinburgh Castle.

 The view of Arthur's Seat from the castle.

 View of Edinburgh from the castle.

 St Giles' Cathedral

  Lovely view of Edinburgh from a very very windy Arthur's Seat. The climb was tough (post pub crawl) 250.5 m (822 ft) above the city.

 Shannon with a statue of Greyfriars Bobby. A Skye Terrier that as the story goes, became 'famous' in 19th-century Edinburgh for spending 14 years guarding the grave of his owner, John Gray (aka Auld Jock), until he died himself on 14 January 1872.

We also visited  Mary King's Close, which is an old Edinburgh Close now located under the current day buildings in the Old Town area of Edinburgh. An interesting tourist attraction shows what life in Edinburgh was like between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries.