Sunday, January 6, 2008

We started today by going for coffee with Hugh's family near Holyrood Palace, where the Queen stays when she visits Edinburgh.


After that me, Hugh and Hugh's mum walked up Arthur's Seat, a Hill in the middle of Edinburgh. They call it Arthur's seat because some people think it looks like a seat. Here is a picture of me and Hugh's mum Pam, standing in the ruin of an old chapel near the bottom of the hill.


Here is me about half way up the hill, you can get a good view of Edinburgh from here.


Climbing all that way isn't easy so we took a rest at the middle.

Here is me finally at the top, it was very windy but you could see for miles around.


When we got back down to the bottom we went and fed the swans. The Queen owns all of the swans in Britain.




Saturday, January 5, 2008

Edinburgh

Today we went into town and visited the Royal Mile, it's a street that goes from Edinburgh Castle down to Holyrood Palace where the Queen stays when she is in Edinburgh. This is a photo of me standing in a Scottish alley, in Edinburgh they call them "closes".


Here I am calling someone, and this is what Scottish phone booths look like.



This is a picture of the Royal Mile and its old buildings.



This was a piper playing on the street, I really liked it because he was playing nice music. He was playing 'Amazing Grace'.