Visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, 2017/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Edinburgh, Scotland, 2017/Carlos Pueblo

Edinburgh was the old capital city of the Kingdom of Scotland and the

last monarch, Queen Anne, had ceased in the beginning of 17^th century.

Scotland and England have formed the Great Britain ever since and become

a great Empire. We arrived to the city early in the morning and found our way

to the hotel smoothly by shuttle. A seagull was waiting outside our room at a

balcony and we could have a nice view of the Edinburgh Castle. Our daughter,

Michelle, used her hotel points to give Amy as a birthday present. We went

out toward the Castle to start this three days tour. We had covered the Castle,

National Gallery, East and West Princes Street Gardens on the first day; the

University of Edinburgh campus, tapestry museum, and Walker Slater a Harris

Tweed Jacket store on the second day; Carlton Hill, the New Town and walked

to Stockbride outside of the tourist map on the third day.

The weather was lovely, no rain for the entire three days as Eugenia of Hong Kong

showed me her i-phone photos last year in Frankfurt, Germany. The unique architecture

of building are well kept and the Scots are very good manners and friendly indeed.

The Castle was built on a hill formed by a young age volcano, solid rock base. Tourists

and their buses are piled up on the uphill road side to the Castle. We walked into the

Scotland National Gallery, a free menu of arts. One of a big painting on the wall is

about an old flood scenery of the old town and later has become the East and West

Princes Street Gardens, they are on both sides of this Gallery. I have been mostly

impressed by the green lawn of Edinburgh, as a matter of fact, Scotland entirely.

It must be the mild climate and plenty of rain.

I was determined to visit the famous University of Edinburgh campus, it was outside

of the tourist map; yet not far away from the hotel. We walked through the old town

Edinburgh with lovely churches of Protestants and Catholics and memorial architecture

in the Scottish history. There is even a permanent stone sigh to explain the King’s Stables

Road and the square of stores of one portion. I chatted with a missionary of the Jehovah

Witness at the entrance street of the campus just next to a newly addition of the University

, an abandon hospital. I always love to visit a famous institution when I travel around the

world. The University can be tracked back to several centuries with a high school building

still stands and now is a museum. We walked out of the campus down to a street and found

a tapestry museum and got a clear idea of Harris Tweed Jacket which I should describe later.

A fellow guest from Wales recommended Amy visit the Carlton Hills and the new town of

Edinburgh and we did on the third day. Carton Hills is a place to over view the harbor and

the New Town is on the north of Princes Gardens not that huge. We walked pass the

boundary to Stockbridge outside the tourist map again.