Edinburgh, Day 3!

Our luck held and we had another day of good weather. In the morning, we visited Holyroodhouse Palace (yeah, it's a bit of a mouthful), the Queen's official residence in Scotland. We couldn't take pictures inside but we could take pictures within the entrance, the courtyard, gardens and the Abbey, which is in ruins.



We decided to try the audio guide because it was free. We've never used them before and Steve was really pleased with it. He seemed a bit bored with the castle the day before but he really enjoyed seeing the palace and listening to the audio tour.

After the palace, we saw another comedy show which Steve enjoyed but I definitely did not. The guy was weird and often just not funny. He did some songs and poetry which just doesn't appeal to me.

After that, we headed back to Holyrood Park. We debated climbing the moutain but by that point, our feet and legs were really sore from all the walking we'd be doing in the last few days. Keep in mind we'd been walking almost everywhere and also considering all the walking around the castle and palace, we easily walked 4 miles a day. So we kept the climbing to a minimum and just kind of wandered around while I took pictures. We did climb a little ways up to St Anthony's Chapel, which is also in ruins.





Since it was our actual anniversary this day, we had made reservations at a restaurant called Vittoria. It was a huge restaurant with 3 floors and seated 200 people - and it was PACKED. It was a good thing we made reservations because otherwise, we wouldn't have been seated in time for us to make the show for that night. But even being so busy, the staff did not appear stressed and we didn't have to wait too long for our food. Both and food and the wine was very good - I had the risotto in goats cheese and sun dried tomatoes and Steve had a meat filled pasta in a bolognese sauce.



After dinner it was off to . . . the Ladyboys of Bangkok! We've seen them before in Manchester and Steve is not afraid to admitt it finds it very entertaining, lol. I've said it before but some of those men look more like women than some women do! At one point Steve said to me "That's clearly a woman" and he overheard another guy saying "That's confusing" lol.

So that's the conclusion to day 3. The videos from the Tattoo are still uploading so I'll be back with those, as well as day 4!