Edinburgh

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Our last big vacation while living in Europe was a trip to Scotland.   I will divide this trip up into four sections: Edinburgh, Scottish National Museum, West Highlands, and the Borderland & Hadrian's Wall.  

In Edinburgh, we stayed in The Caledonian off Princess Street and in the shadow of Edinburgh Castle.   The Caledonian used to be a train station in the hey-day of rail.  That past lends its classic look to the hotel today and was a great place to stay aside from the late night fire alarms.

I got lucky with my landscape shots of the castle.  I hit just the right light for to contrast the rocks beneath the castle.  I could not be happier with these shots.

Aside from the national museum, we did a lot of walking around the city.   We saw the castle, inside and out, walked the high street a few times, and toured Holyrood. 

On High Street we had the best pizza we had in all Europe and tried the famous deep fried mars bar.   All in all the food was much better than we had expected.