Edinburgh, Scotland

Hey :o) Corey wrote the Invergordon blog! He's good, hunh???


Edinburgh has been our favorite stop so far! It's a close call between Cobh and Edinburgh. Edinburough seemed to have the right balance of stuff for us. The city was awake, but it did not carry torrents of rushing locals and tourists. It was pleasantly busy. The city seemed to have levels. Everywhere we looked, we could see buildings set higher than us, and we could see buildings set lower than us. The best part was the number of old buildings. They were stone, had rich carvings, and spectacular structure.

One woman (the one with the dog) in Invergordon told us that we should take a tour of Edinburgh's underground city. Like many other cities, the Edinburgh that we were visiting was not the first city. The city was built upon the ruins of a previous city. So, I was all excited to look for the underground. The only thing I found were a few young people who set up a luan sign for underground tours and ghost tours and stuff. They looked like they couldn't have been more than 20 years old. They had a 50 miunute tour of the underground with a shot of whiskey and a shortbread at the end of the tour.. This looked like the best we could do, so Corey agreed to pay the 14 bucks per person, and we left to get lunch. When we came back for the tour, another young couple joined us. Four of us and our tour guide. Our guide grabbed a cheap looking flashlight and took us into this cool tunnel thing, and then she started talking about ghosts and witches and paranormal stuff she has seen happen to people during the tours. This was not what we expected at all. We were expecting a historical tour, but what the heck, we've already paid, and the tunnels were cool. We did get some info from her that sounded like it was historical, but then some sounded exaggerated. I am curious, though, and would like to read more about it. We were mostly creeped out about the thought of homeless people, vermin, and offal we could run into. Anyhow, the tour was fun in a campy way. I will say that there was one room I wouldn't walk into. It creeped me out. I don't like to disobey my gut instincts :o) I got a skimpy shot of whiskey at the end, and left my shortbread to feed the hungry ghosts. All I could think as I walked away was that my girlfriend Becky would be soooooooo creeped out! Becs, if you're reading this, it would almost be worth the plan fare for me to fly you to Edinburgh and take that tour! LOL!

We also saw some great churches and neat buildings. We took lots of pictures, but most of the time, we didn't know what we were looking at :o) Edinburgh also was a great place for us to find gifts! Hooray!

There was one funny thing... we almost missed our bus back! Haha! Good thing Corey is a runner and could catch the bus before it took off --my hero! Corey said that it was good practice for the Amazing Race, but unfortunately, we were the last team to arrive. Good thing it was a non-elimination round! LOL!

Ate teppanyaki for dinner on the ship and went to bed. We agree, though, that Edinburgh is definitely worth coming back to. We'd really like to look for the real underground tour.