WH'S PLAYGROUND: Edinburgh: Day 2 & 3

by wh

Edinburgh, Scotland

Day 2 we went to Calton Hill. The right timing, right weather and right "everything"!!! the sun is just coming out about 8 o'clock... the view is incredible, we saw beautiful white snowy mountains from the hill...

The view of Princes Street from Calton Hill...

Dugald Steward monument of Calton Hill...

Lovely weather at the top of Calton Hill...

The view of the snowy mountains from Calton Hill...

National Monument and the Nelson's monument...

JUMP! really looks like reaching at the top of Mount Kinabalu...

Then, we been to a place where the guidebook says it's a must-see. It's the Edinburgh Castle, which I personally don't recommend people to go in. It is just not worth 11 pound to get into a place to look at the view of Edinburgh. I think Calton Hill is way better than Edinburgh Castle and it's free of charge.

Sis and me at the Edinburgh Castle...

Felt not worth 11 pound to get into the Castle...

which the view is just not as nice as from the Calton Hill...

Then, we've been to the Elephant House to have a break for ourselves. It's the birthplace of Harry Potter. It is rather a marketing concept as neither the coffee and chocolate is nice. We were writing our postcard inside the cafe and people around us are having great time chatting. I wonder how JK Rowling wrote her book in such environment.

The Elephant House, the place where

J.K. Rowling started writing about Harry Potter...

The hot chocolate I've in the cafe...

we wrote our postcard inside that cafe...

Scottish Bagpiperman!!! :D

earning some income by the street...

Everything is beautiful in Scotland when it snows...

Day 3 we've been to St. Giles Church, Greyfiars Bobby and back to the Princes Street... Not much on day 3 as there's only few places that we haven't visited... And the weather is so beautiful, bright sun and blue sky... which is good because the sky start snowing heavily just before we went back to Newcastle...