Man, I’ve been waiting to use that title for a long time. One of my biggest problems with the second largest city in Scotland is knowing how to pronounce it. I remember the spelling, I think, because there’s a city of a similar name in Texas, and one guy I met from there told me “It’s just like the city in Scotland, but with no H.” So easy enough. Pronunciation I couldn’t get a handle on, so I find workarounds.

Okay, so as I write this, it’s been a few weeks, so I’m a little vague on what happened, but basically we started off the day with a (forced?) march up Arthur’s Seat, which is basically a big hill next to a bigger hill right next to the city. It was a pleasant way to get started for our other walks coming up later. After we went up and down, we got beers, then walked a few hundred yards, then got some more beers! Card loading is what they call it in the business.

Unfortunately, we got to the castle too late to take the tour (they suggest taking two hours or more, we got there with maybe 30. Whoops.) I’ll have to go back to Edinburgh for sure, because I missed basically everything. Nonetheless, seems like a cool town!