Edinburgh

Been in Edinburgh for the past few days, and met up with my brother and sister-in-law as planned. Been having a good time, though it’s been pretty wet and rainy here (and cold! guess it’s been unseasonably cold the past couple days than it normally would be, figures).

Since I last wrote we’ve been all over. We never made it to Land’s End like I’d hoped, the time to get there and the weather were against us. After leaving our ‘second home’ with our friends Jo and David we spent a couple nights in Bath. It’s a great place, but driving into it was rough, got turned around a lot and there’s very few road signs telling you what street you’re on. The Roman Baths are very cool though, well worth seeing. After we left Bath we drove north to Bowness-on-Windermere, which was a very nice change from Bath. Very nice lakeside town, bigger than we’d expected, but much more relaxing than Bath.

Since being in Edinburgh we’ve toured the castle and St. Giles cathedral, as well as driven north to Stirling to tour Stirling Castle, and for me, the most important thing, we went to Doune Castle, the castle that was used pretty heavily in the Monty Python film, Holy Grail. I was excited to go anyway, but wasn’t expecting the castle to be as cool as it was. Much bigger than I’d thought, and not full of people so it felt like you were on your own exploring the place.

Today is Kelly’s birthday (Happy Birthday!!!) and she’s out with our sister-in-law shopping, while my brother drools over swords in this sword shop up the street. Tonight we’re all going to go out for the last time before my brother and sister-in-law leave for Austria, and Kelly and I head south to York.

Hope to write again from York.