malanthide: Edinburgh

The next day I returned to where I had finished my sightseeing trip the day before, Holyrood Palace. It is a very dark palace, and Queen Elizabeth obviously liked Scotland that much that she ordered some nice tapestry to make the palace more comfortable. However, it is still very dark.

Unfortunately, because I visited in the Winter months, the garden was closed so I only had access to the abbey from the palace and couldn't walk around which was a shame, because the abbey is really beautiful.

I left the palace and followed the way to Holyrood park. A lot of people prepared themselves to run up the hills. It started drizzling. I followed one of the narrow paths, but found a smaller path that looked way more interesting and brought me to a church ruin. It was muddy and slippery and fun. I climbed up the first hill and found a lake and the stonefort I really wanted to see. However, then I found it way more interesting to ascend the highest hill, Arthur's seat. It was very windy, and sunny again.

I walked back into town toward Carlton Hill where I found yet another cemetery with vaults....

I then returned to town, took the bus and went to Ocean Terminal to watch the Britannica at least from the outside. I had hoped to see more of the sea... and yet regretted that I there was not enough time left to travel to the closest beach.

After having returned to the city I strolled to the National Gallery and went in to see some Scottish Artists. I found paintings from W. Dyce, R. Burns, J. Duncan and W. McTaggart there. Unfortunately, as usual there were no postcards for these paintings...