Gotta LOVE the Fraser Suites Hotel. Possibly the best hotel I've ever visited. I could LIVE out of this room. 15ft ceilings, almost floor to ceiling windows (even the bath). Exquisite.
The little kitchenette showing the microwave whose door took a gouge out of my cheek. I still loved the room.
Among the cleaning products in the kitchenette. The company's tag line in print and television ads is: "Do YOU have a little FAIRY in the kitchen?" HA!
The view from the frickin' bathroom looking into the new town. That dark, pointy thing is Burn's Monument.
Edinburgh (old town) is full of "closes" - tiny lanes between streets that people used to get about quickly. Now most have little shops and things along the way or at the ends.
Burns' Monument again. It was at this point, 3 years after seeting it for the first time, that it occured to us that one could actually climb the thing.
James Maxwell - inventor of many taxes including income tax. He also invented a tax on the # of windows in a building.
The windows at right have been painted out - presumably due to the window tax.
This is one of the many PRIVATE gardens in Scotland. In order to use (ie sit) in this garden you must have a key. Only people who live in houses on the streets surrounding the garden can get a key - for a yearly fee.
Bespoke Tailors - the word is almost unknown in North America. It means the tailor has their own stash of cloth and one "speaks for" a length of it. The tailor fashions the garments from that bespoke material.
Jenners is to Edinburgh what Eatons (was) to Canada.
The tiny entry to ...
The hostel where those gentlement are coming out of at right but where ...
Robbie Burns lived while in Edinburgh.
The Hub - originally a church now devoted to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
The back side of Edinburgh Castle.
We have to climb that?
Your typical Science Museum thing.
That strange building is the Scottish Parliament Headquarters
The rise up to Arthur's Seat - if you look closely you can just make out people up there. I can see it being Arthur's Seat. After a walk that strenuous, one would have to sit for a while.
First level of Burns Monument.
View from the 1st level. This is as high as I got. The following were mostly taken by Robert who didn't mind the stairs were so narrow you had to walk up them sideways.
Breathtaking.
That was where I stayed.
From the hightest point - room for about 5 people if they don't mind shuffling around .
If you find the dark tree (right foreground) on left, move upward to the building with mostly white windows, that was our hotel. I guess I needn't worry about Burn Monument climbers peeping into my bathroom.
Arthur's Seat in the distance.
