We took two more photos from our vantage point above the city. At the
top of the Royal Mile you can see Edinburgh Castle, of which I wrote
about a week ago. At the bottom of the Royal Mile is the Palace
Holyrood where royalty actually resided in medieval times (warmer and
more pleasant than the dreary castle). Mary Queen of Scots lived here
and when she was forced to go up to the castle she apparently wasn't a
happy camper. Bonny Prince Charlie, it was said, that when he rode
into Holyrood on his returned attempt to take the throne from the
English, was given a royal cheer from the locals.
Unfortunately it was closed. So we went drinking scotch instead, at
Golfer's Land. You can read the very interesting history in the plaque
on the wall.
When lunch was done we wandered to a modern standing stone place that
explained the amazing geological history of Scotland. That became our
final earthcache for this trip. From that vantage point we took a
better photo of the hill and rocks above.
And that's it. What an amazing geoeuroadventure!
See you in Canada!
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