Hi from Edinburgh!
Mark and I are totally exhausted from two days of whirlwind sightseeing through York (yesterday) and Edinburgh (today). We are having an amazing time touring without jetlag and finding everything as wonderful as promised. Here's a quick rundown. (No pictures yet as I'm on the guest computer at the hotel, but don't worry, there are 654 new ones on our camera and we have almost a whole day left tomorrow!)
-Trains are by far the best way to travel.
-In the UK they make alcoholic apple juice. They call it "cider" but they're not fooling me. Juice box for grown ups.
-We ate at an "American" food genre restaurant and enjoyed ketchup on fries.
-We've seen castles, cathedrals, minsters, museums, bars, alleys, streets, looks outs, the North Sea, sat on the open top of a double decker bus, and sat under the arches of ruins.
-We watched some of the world cup in a pub here in Edinburgh, where it turns out Scotland roots against England.
-I got to see the hotel where J.K. Rowling finished The Deathly Hallows. I also saw the teacher college where she went to school to be a teacher (pre Harry Potter fame, of course.) Tomorrow I'm going to the Elephant House, which is the little cafe where she wrote most of the Philosopher's Stone before she became famous.
And that's just the last 48 hours folks. We're getting our money's worth. And burning off those croissants!
Pictures to come next week when I go back to visit the library!
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