Edinburgh July 2010

We spent last weekend in Edinburgh with my Mum and Dad, seeing museums, general sights, eating, drinking, and generally chilling out. Though we did walk quite a bit, not good for Abi as her blisters had still not completely recovered from last weeks exertions up Ben Lawers.

The National Museum of Scotland is huge, and has a lot in it. Abi and I had seen the pre-history stuff before, so we went to look at other stuff, including the Lewis Chessmen. We also went to see the Scottish Parliament. (Man this is reading like a primary school "What did you do at the weekend" kinda blog!) The main debating chamber I thought was pretty cool; but as you walk around the building you see a lot of the concrete bits of structure close up, which is a bit odd, and detracts from the better parts of the building.

Otherwise we found a couple of good pubs, one from the Good Beer Guide (naturally), a not so good Indian restaurant on Rose Street, and a good Italian nearer the hotel. Of course, as soon as we got back home, the McMillans arrived, with a crazy son! So we don't feel like we've stopped for quite a while. It'll be nice to not do anything this weekend.