Scotland day 1-4

Edinburgh for the next leg of the journey and moving from temperatures of 32 degrees to 16, overcast and sometimes raining. But that's fine, because this is a really interesting city to explore. It has a very different more relaxed and slow feel to London or Athens, (need I say it).
We had a little trouble finding the accommodation after getting off the bus from the airport (which was easy to find) but we eventually worked our way up stream through the crowd just exiting the military Tattoo and got to our accommodation. The view from the front door is pretty good.

Not the best of sleeping arrangements but very cheap and situated about 15 metres form the foot of the castle. Ben, Trudy's friend arrived today as well. That's him on the left......

Over the next few days we just wandered around the city taking in the "Fringe Festival" and some of the sites. Found Dolly the sheep, had a look at where Harry Potter came from, all the usual stuff when you are in Edinburgh.

We decided that Sunday would be the day to tour the Castle. The three of us got ourselves audio guides and headed off. We got their fairly early before all the big crowds arrived which were big later in the day.