Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland's ancient capital, is a beautiful city. I hope it survives the G8 summit, although I guess it's weathered worse things over the centuries, including English rule.
I could spend days walking the Royal Mile, from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Palace.
Highlights in between include St. Giles Cathedral, the Writers' Museum, John Knox's house and of course the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre.
Edinburgh is not a large city -- Glasgow is bigger by far -- and it gets jammed with tourists this time of year. It's probably a nightmare now. I've been a couple of times and count the experiences as among my best ever.
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Doug,
Yes , Edinburgh is marvelous much more so than Glasgow. However St. Mungos, The Provand's Lordship and the Burrell Collection are all neat but my favorite place was the Counting House Pub ( used to be a bank )across from my hotel on George Square. Nunc est bibendium .
Cheers
Posted on July 14, 2005 11:44 PM