Hi All,
We began this day hiking up to Calton Hill for expansive views across the city and interesting monuments.
First monument is dedicated to poet Robert Burns.
Next is the monument commemorating Lord Nelson's victory at Trafalgar in 1805
This is the Scottish National Monument intended to commemorate Scots who died fighting in the Napoleonic Wars. It was intended to model the Parthenon in Athens but was never completed.
A monument to Dugald Stewart, a professor of Moral Philosophy at Edinburgh University.
The trail from the west side of the hill led down to Princes St. This view shows the Balmoral Hotel on the left and the National Archive on the right.
We then took a bus tour around the town. The sites were familiar but the narration filled in many historical details.
After the bus tour and lunch we hiked to the Botanical Garden. This is the oldest "glasshouse" i.e. "greenhouse" on the grounds, dating to 1834.
Scottish weather has a cloudy, damp reputation. We have enjoyed three days of cloudless sunny weather.
We were early in the season but there were many flowering bushes and blossoming trees.
On the way back from the Botanical Garden we got this nice view of the Castle high above.
We certainly didn't see all that Edinburgh has to offer but tomorrow we are off to Inverness.
Love,
Roberta, Elliot, Sandy & Carl
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