We’ve been alternately curious and skeptical about the Edinburgh Dungeon since we moved to town, so when we were invited to check it out, we gave it a go.
rainy day Edinburgh
Edinburgh: tea in the afternoon
There’s a meal that exists here that hasn’t existed in any other place we’ve lived. It occurs in the afternoon, as the name would imply. The consumption of actual tea, however, is entirely optional.
Edinburgh: Scenes from an open-top bus tour
Like most tourist-centric European cities, Edinburgh is full of open-topped double-decker hop-on-hop-off bus tours.
Question Time at the Scottish Parliament
Down at the lower end of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, across the street from the queen’s summer house, you’ll find the architectural anomaly that is the Scottish Parliament. You’ll have no trouble picking it out from the surrounding medieval buildings that make up Old Town.
Exploring Edinburgh: The Real Mary King’s Close
We’ve been having fun playing tourists in Edinburgh over the past couple months. One of the attractions we tried out was The Real Mary King’s Close.
Edinburgh: seeing things at the Camera Obscura
Recently we spent a couple days being tourists in our own city, getting to know some of the attractions Edinburgh has to offer. One of our first stops was the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions.