So Scotland is pretty awesome. Their national museums are free! So that is what we did today. Because it’s free, and awesome. We walked to the National Scottish Museum and wandered around there. It is a HUGE museum. It has information on Scotland from the beginning of time until present day. It’s slightly awkwardly arranged, but maybe that’s just because we really are starting to become exhausted from all this walking. The days are tough when you start walking, then have some slow walking in between, and finish with some walking.
After the museum we walked to the National Scottish Gallery. It had some very impressive stuff, although we didn’t find the impressionists (my favorites) until the museum was about to close. We can’t really complain that much because we did see two amazing museums for free, ones that in the US, would have easily cost $20 each to enter into.
During our walk to the gallery we ran into horses. Not literally because we knew they were coming. But there WERE a lot of them. It was a GINORMOUS parade of horses! Never have I seen so many horses in my life! What a hoot. It was also fun when the people sitting outside of a bar booed the police horses. Smile and wave boys, smile and wave.
For dinner we went to the World’s End Café. It is so named because that’s where Edinburgh’s wall used to be, and back in the day you had to pay to leave and enter into the city, so generally, if you were born there you died there (if you catch my drift). Therefore, the wall was the “world’s end” for most people. The food was pretty good, but it’s just a little tourist spot so nothing to freak out about.
During one of our many walking sessions today we stumbled upon a nice little park that happened to house the Nelson monument. And other random war memorials (cannons) and a romaneque thing (columns ect). Pretty pimpin’.
Also, we ate more pie.
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