Edinburgh Castle Archives

Coast & Castles North Day 1 – Edinburgh to Kinross

21 August 2017 Sarah

Sunday was our Coast and Castles North Day 1. However, before we did any cycling we had a trip around Edinburgh Castle which had been arranged by the lovely Ali. Arriving at Edinburgh Castle, they were getting ready for the Royal Tattoo. There were quite a number of military museum’s to look around. This horse statue was moved to the Castle and recommissioned by the Princesses Royal. The queue to see the Crown Jewels took us through an exhibition. Andy…

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St Andrew’s Day 2013 in Edinburgh

4 December 2013 Andy

Friday Evening Edinburgh is one of our favourite cities. We had already visited earlier this year, which you can read all about here, here, here, here, here …and finally here!. However the opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s national day, St Andrew’s Day 2013, with the locals gave Sarah and I another opportunity to venture north. Major tourist attractions open their doors for free on this day and we hoped to join the throngs. Things didn’t go quite as planned, but once again we had…

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Coast and Castles South Day 7 – Edinburgh to Dunbar

22 June 2013 Sarah

Coast and Castles South Day 7. This morning was a little sad as there was a parting of the ways. Three of the team of seven were finishing their trip in Edinburgh and four of us will continue back to Berwick upon Tweed over the next couple of days. It was rather strange with their just being the four of us as we cycled along! To start our day we headed over to Edinburgh Castle. They were setting up a stadium…

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Edinburgh’s Hidden Gems & Tourist Spots

19 February 2013 Sarah

As the weather forcast had not been great, we decided not to cycle on the Monday. Plan B was therefore to walk into Edinburgh and have a look at some of the tourist things and then go for a coastal walk in the afternoon. We wandered over to the Royal Mile and headed away from the Castle. Down a little passageway off the Royal Mile, we discovered a wonderful community garden called Dunbar’s Close Garden, which is open to the…

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Edinburgh at Night

17 February 2013 Andy

Following our earlier walk around the city centre, we went to Travelodge Edinburgh Central Waterloo Place where were staying for the night. We had something to eat and then decided to sample one of Edinburgh’s recommended watering holes, The Last Drop. Situated in the Grassmarket the historic market area in the Old Town below the castle our route to it was foreboding as we passed a number of shady looking places. However we arrived at the Grassmarket itself to find an open bright…

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