I ring the new blog with pictures of the year - last year, from my Scotland holiday in the autumn of 2010.
A few basic data about this: The holiday was held from 17 to 20 October, the base camp was located in Edinburgh, the Scottish capital. was on and off each time at some point around noon, so that the four days exactly made to about three shrank. As the target had my passenger or flyer Stefan and I set ourselves to take as many of the attractions of Edinburgh and of course to explore the Scottish Highlands - in other words, a very ambitious program, considering that you really alone for three days in Edinburgh could spend even without being reminded of it would be boring. packed line was also the timetable.
for the arrival day (a Sunday) we had the sights of the city itself made us during day 2 and 3 in the area and should eventually lead to the Highlands. After check-in, Check-in and abundant late lunch ( Haggis pie) it was about four heading into the city, past the Northbridge ...
... and on Scott Monument (a monument , named not for the Scots, the Scots , but built in honor of the Scottish writer Sir Walter Scott ) was:
Gone are at these first two milestones led us our exploration tour in the National Gallery of Scotland :
Die schottische National-Galerie stellt – wie der Name vermuten lässt – vor allem Gemälde schottischer Meister aus. Der Eintritt ist übrigens frei. Nach einem kurzem Aufenthalt dort ging es den Castle Rock hinauf, also den städtischen Burgberg, …
… denn die Burg sollte unser nächstes Tagesziel sein. Dort angekommen mussten wir allerdings feststellen, dass wir etwas zu spät dranwaren: Die Kasse war schon geschlossen. Der Burgbesuch wurde folglich auf den nächsten Tag verlegt und die Tour wurde fortgesetzt.
Der weitere Weg führte uns die Royal Mile down, and therefore the most important and probably the most famous crossing of Edinburgh's Old Town:
Gladstone's Land , a restored tenement house from the 17th century (the small building directly behind the right half of the green bus), we looked at only from the outside ...
... as opposed to St Giles' Cathedral , Edinburgh's main church, which we entered also
The tower is one way Reproduction of the Scottish crown represent.
A short detour took us then to Greyfriars Kirk Yard , a historic cemetery (but which is still used):
a little scary insight into the history of this grant, the following grave Building:
One might wonder why it was necessary to secure a grave with a grid: Were the survivors fear before their dead or to their dead? The latter was the case, as a small billboard indicated:
This iron mort safe which placed over the grave to grave-robbers from preventable digging up the body for sale to the anatomy class in the Medical School. Many other measures were taken in the 18th and 19th centuries to Prevent This repulsive trade, Which continued until the Anatomy Act was passed in 1832.In other words, to be sure who wanted his dead peace was not disturbed by curious students and professors of anatomy, could be buried behind bars.
is the most famous Greyfriars Kirk Yard but probably for the story of Greyfriars Bobby : This dog is the grave of his dead master for 14 years until have his own death in 1872, watched faithfully. In his honor in front of the cemetery, a statue was erected in life size:
We went down the Royal Mile ...
... until we finally arrived at its lower end were. There were several attractions to admire and photograph. First, the Scottish Parliament building ...
... on the other Holyrood Palace , the official residence of the British monarch in Scotland:
Unfortunately, the latter of course was also closed already.
A point was still on the interest list for that day: Edinburgh's "home mountain", Arthur's Seat :
This extinct volcano is located - as in the previous photo easy to see - in the immediate vicinity to Parliament House and the Palace. After a few steps in the now increasingly clear advancing dusk we were finally felt led
The climb to the summit of gravel and grass paths with a detour past the ruins of St Anthony's Chapel :: in the wilderness
When we finally reached the top, it was really dark and we had a brilliant view of the illuminated city:
What you see on the picture does not, however: It was really stormy up there, you could lay with arms outstretched in the wind. For
the descent we had a path provided on the opposite side of the mountain. He really should be the easier of the two paths. The only downside was that there was no lighting up while we had no flashlights. And so it happened as it had to: Sooner or later we were somewhere far away from all paths. The descent proved to be the remaining balance, light that difficult at times led by brick drain channels with slippery gravel remnants or between bushes round. But somehow we were finally at some point without any major incidents at the foot of the mountain on paved paths that lead us back to our hostel.
To be continued!
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