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Has been fantabulous! The first day or two we just wandered around the part of town our hostel is in. There is a river that cuts through the city and runs right past our hostel, and alongside this river is a walking/biking trail called the Leith Walk...apparently this walk and the gardens along it have been around for a few hundred years now. While walking we got to meet a few of the locals ^_^ ,

and stopped by a neighbourhood pub for some refreshments.

On a side note...pubs here are dangerous for me. They have hard cider...lots of hard cider. Our order at one of the pubs the other night: Two ciders, an order of curly fries, Belgium waffles complete with chocolate and ice cream, and toffee cake. I bet they thought we we're crazy...but damn that was good.

We did the tourist thing a bit too, and went to see Edinburgh Castle. The location of the castle is more impressive to me then the actual buildings, I cant imagine the stone masons working on those cliffs. The castle had some pretty cool stuff to see, I know James's favourite was the firing of the gun.

Firing of the one o'clock gun

Kaboom

Last night we did one of the cheesy “Terror Tours” that took us around old town Edinburgh and into some vaults under the city. One of the vaults the tour group owns was rented out to a wiccan coven...I wanted to go in they're vault and play with all the pretty stuff but it was blocked off :( . One of the other ones we went into was a 'level 3' paranormal zone so we had to turn off all our electronics etc so the spirit in there wouldnt 'feed' off of them, Mhmmm. Interesting enough though my camera battery crapped out on me today on the way to the internet cafe...coincidence?

Tomorrow we head to Belgium for a few days, to pick up a ring James had commissioned awhile back and meet the girl who made it. After that we're heading to Spain where we've lined up another farm stay. It's an organic farm and the owners are also trying to restore some old buildings on thier property.

Side notes:

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~ Amanda

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Slade's Elucidation on July 5, 2008 from Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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