Edinburgh - Blogabond

Still on the same day that we left Fort William we drove all the way around Loch Ness and headed to Edinburgh where we took some fantastic pictures of the landscape and long roads that went on for Miles.

We had managed to look for a hostel in Edinburgh that morning so we had somewhere to head to and park the car. The hostel was pretty easy to find as it was literally across the road from the castle. As it turned out we booked the smallest attic room with double-bed and sink in a huge medieval looking building. With the Scotland vs Ireland Rugby match coming up the place was absolutely buzzing with people and had a welcoming atmosphere. Although hostels tend to have the connotations of being a bit of a doss house, it was quite luxurious having a communal room with pool table, TV, sofas, kitchen area and a separate ‘posh lounge’ with an open log burning fire, leather sofas, a full sized grand piano where another guest started playing the classical score from the Chanel advert. Very suave.

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Unfortunately they only had the one night available, so the following night we stayed in a upmarket Travel Inn with hot water, towels and a power shower. We went out both nights we were there and got to see a lot of the amazing city and if we could, would have loved to have gone back for a long weekend with a group of friends. The architecture is very much gothic and the nightlife seems to go on and on. We walked the Royal Mile, which seems so much longer than a mile if you’re combining it with a pub crawl and had our first vegetarian/vegan dining experience at a restaurant called David Bann – amazing!

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Kat and Ben on March 11, 2009 from Edinburgh, United Kingdom

from the travel blog: Kat & Ben's World Adventure

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