Edinburgh Day 2

Sunday, 14 July 2024

After a quick trip to Sainsburys for supplies we were all out the door by 9.30 so we could stroll through the royal mile and some city laneways before making our way out to our tour event (it was a rest day for the elite runners).  We had intended to catch a bus to town but decided just to walk instead as we could go via Carlton Hill and take in a few extra views.  

Down off the hill we strolled the city streets which were starting to get busy but no-where near as packed as we saw them later in the day.

We wove our way through the streets to one of the renown hot chocolate providers in Edinburgh (Zali has at least 4 she wants us to visit).  With them in hand we strolled through The Meadows in the light drizzle then we got a bus to one of the University of Edinburgh’s campuses.

We arrived in good time for our indoor orienteering event – which was super fun and really confusing.  You often had to go up a floor in order to go down, or climb a floors up a certain staircase so you could use a different set to go down again as the organisers used tricky barriers across the floors.  There were a lot of people (like me) spending a lot of time standing around trying to work out how to solve the next leg.

Afterwards it was back onto a bus as we headed back across town to an area called Deans Village which was really lovely.

We made our way back up to Princes Street via some more quaint streets:

That whole area was pretty quiet compared to the rest of the city - except for these tourists who kept ruining my photos:

We made it home in time for a quick rest before heading back across town for dinner with some other Tasmanians.  By the time we left the rain had really set in so the bus ride through historic Edinburgh looked like this:

The photo on the right was my entry into the daily family photographic competition in the 'nature' category. It didn't win but I feel I was robbed so I'm putting it here.