In Scotland again - YAY! I think I might have to make one more stop here before I go back home to SA. Thalia was also in Scotland so we got together with her for drinks . We had our first round at the Grassmarket Pub, Byron, Allan, Thalia and I. Lee then joined us and we went to the Underbelly. From there we went to the Spiegel tent, another one of the festival venues. On our way there we passed the statue of Greyfriars Bobby, and a group of guys told us that little Greyfriars Bobby fell in a cement mixer and it is not just a normal statue. Apparently if you look long enough you will see his eyes move. If you hadn't figured it out they were a little drunk.
This morning Byron and I headed out to see what the Edinburgh festival had to offer. We found out very quickly that the festival definitely has ALOT of pamphlets to offer. Half way up the Royal Mile we also discovered that there are free mini street acts all day basically to advertise the official acts for the evening and give you a reason to take a pamphlet.
We continued our way up the Royal Mile and stopped outside Camera Obscura. Had a good laugh at our reflections in the funky mirrors.

The good scenery did not stop there. We then made our way to The Scotts Monument (dedicated to Sir Walter Scott) and we decided to climb all the stairs to make our way to the top. WOW! And I am not referring to the view, although it was beautiful, I am referring to the very narrow, tight spiraled staircase to get to the top. The thing that mad
From the top of the Scotts Monument there is a beautiful view of Edinburgh Castle and because of the festival there were all sorts of dancing going on in the gardens at the bottom of the monument. These guys were
wearing these funny hats with long ribbons attatched to the top. As they turned their heads in circles, the ribbons would make big circles too. They would then start spinning in circles at the same time their heads were going round. I am really not sure how they managed to do all this without falling over, it was pretty impressive.
After climbing the stairs and waiting our turn to get back down we
That night we decided to embrace the festival and booked tickets for a comedy show, with Stuart Goldsmith and Jimmy McGhie. Stuart was the guy that Byron and I saw earlier doing his street act advertising. So basically his advertising did the trick. It was a good show, Byron and Allan were too scared to sit in the front so we landed up in the second row. It was quite funny too cos at the beginning of the show they did the normal thing of finding out where the people in the audience come from. When he thought he had covered most places and asked if there were any other places I shouted out South Africa and I could feel both Byron and Allan cringe on either side of me. I still survived to tell the tale.
Byron and I booked ourselves onto a Loch Ness Hunter day trip with Haggis Adventures today. I saw some of the same sights that I saw on my Skye High Tour and some new ones. We stopped at Glencoe and once again I was told of the story where the Campbells committed the crime of betrayal on the Mac Donald clan. This time there was no snow on the peaks and instead there was a tinge of purple from the flowering heather, there was also guy playing the bagpipes. Took a pic of me with the heather, just
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If you look just to the left of the italian guy in the Loch Ness photo you can just make out a shape that just might be....
Do you think so? I think it is quite a cool idea that they have going there and whether there is a Nessie or just a really good way of getting people there, you have to hand it to the scots, they obsioulsy got it right!
Aye!
Aye the we man might be correct pal.
Who you calling "pal" Mate?
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