Edinburgh Castle

A nice sunny day, and with not much happening on the job hunting front, so what better to do than visit Edinburgh Castle? It sits high above the city on a foundation of solid rock, with panoramic views of Edinburgh from 3 sides, seeing both old and new town.

I went a little under-dressed, not knowing what a cold stiff wind blows up on top of the rock where the castle. It must be freezing up there in winter. Lucky for Helen she had warmer clothes on.

The castle is really a collection of buildings, almost a small town, within a single fortress. There are cannons galore and a couple of museums tracing Scotland's history of war. A busy lot they were too, back in days of old. Also some history of Scotland's royalty and some treasures on view. Overall it was well presented, not at all tacky like some tourist attractions, actually genuine and with a good amount of things to see.





There is a "One O'Clock gun" that fires once at 1pm precisely every day. We crowded around with all the other shameless tourists to watch the big bang. It wasn't quite as loud as I expected but plenty of people screamed.