The day after

New Year's Day saw us sleep in somewhat but keen not to waste our last full day together. With this in mind we headed out late morning toward Calton Hill, a popular look out.

Fine views were evident for 360 degrees and whilst nippy in the wind, the sun was shining bravely.

We wandered around here for some time before moving downhill toward Holyrood Palace and the new Scottish Parliament building.

We had also told the kids about the fudge shop we had visited the day before so that was on everyone's agenda as well.

Holyrood Palace, the Queen's official residence in Edinburgh, but we are pretty sure she wasn't in a the time.

The fudge shop didn't disappoint and laden with several different varieties our next stop was the No.1 High Street pub for lunch.

When we emerged from the pub we were surprised to see it had been raining and not surprisingly the temperature had dropped as by now it was getting dark again. Not sure how the Scottish deal with this early sunset, I just wanted to go home and get into bed with a book and a cup of tea every day at 4pm!

With the last minute souvenir shopping completed, the girls were keen to head to the Ice Skating rink in Princes St. Gardens so we followed them down to watch. This proved to be a very popular spot and we stayed long enough to take the obligatory photos but it was too cold for those of us standing still so we returned to the apartment.

We re grouped for dinner at Browns which was fairly unremarkable and then got into the serious business of fighting for space in the newly purchased 'overflow bag.'

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This morning Zoe, Tannika, Sam, Terri and Mark left at 11am for the train back to London. The girls will fly back to Adelaide tomorrow and Sam next Monday ready for what looks like being an early start to vintage.

Russell and I had a relaxing morning tidying up the apartment and finding a great clothing shop just around the corner!! (That was me not Russell of course.)

I write this from the BA lounge in Edinburgh where we await our 7.30 pm flight to Heathrow and then on to Singapore and Adelaide. We have just heard the flight is delayed, only by 15 mins at present but we have a fairly tight connection in Heathrow so hope all goes well! Mind you, another night in London wouldn't be too bad 🙂

See you when we're home!

 

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