Tourists In Our Own Town

Today the weather forecast for the day turned out fine.

Helen and I decided, spur of the moment, to head into town and book all three tours with Edinburgh Bus Tours. Having lived here a while, it was nice to get driven around, learning more about the city and its attractions, without feeling a need to maniacally photograph everything in site. Unsurprisingly, the tours took us to areas of town we are now well familiar with, but we also went to parts of town I had never been to before.

Helen had done some of the tours before, and researched what they were. The Majestic Tour was supposed to include a boat ride on the Firth of Forth. The ticket lady recommended that we "do the majestic tour first while the sun is on the water" which reinforced what we thought we knew. Disappointingly we were mistaken. We didn't ask, but assume the boat tour is a summer activity only.

Each bus tour overlaps in the inner city as they all leave from the same location. Although each tour has their own narration, each with its own flavour, I was getting a little bored with hearing the same information about certain landmarks. Luckily for me, City Sightseeing has headsets with different soundtracks, one is "Horrible Histories". It was fun to hear about notorious crimes and people, and where they were caught, hung and laid to rest.

We will need to investigate the boat trip when the days get a longer (a lot longer)!