The black jitney wasn't really also bad. The Romantic notions associated alongside the black jitney , similar most things , came from Harry Potter. It was also warm , together with everybody was taking all their clothe off together with feeling nauseated from the oestrus pouring from the vents , together with Nicholas (surprise , surprise) was the i to asking it endure turned off. Most people cheered. One someone hi-fived him. I went to sleep.
We woke upward every few hours when the jitney stopped together with turned all the lights on together with the driver spoke to us for some reason. I was half-asleep thence really had no see what on Blue Planet he was saying. In the wee hours (we're inwards Scotland forthwith thence I tin country this) Nicholas woke me upward thence I could meet the orangish Sun peeking upward over the North Sea.
"We're inwards Scotland ," he whispered.
(He was wrong. We were close Tweedmouth.)
For how uncomfortable the seats were together with how unpredictable the heating/cooling organization was , nosotros arrived relatively well-rested. We walked our suitcases the 1.5km to Fergus' house (he was the AirBnB nosotros lined up) inwards the Old Town. We're a few minutes walk from Holyrood Park together with to a greater extent than or less the corner from the Edinburgh Festival Theatre.
We had a loving cup of tea alongside Fergus. Well , Nick had tea. Fergus had instant coffee. I had H2O together with was thrilled to drinkable tap H2O that didn't gustation similar chlorine together with exit my tum gurgly. It was only subsequently 8am together with nosotros were hungry for breakfast , thence nosotros sought out a bagelry , drank some java together with went wandering to pat Greyfriar's Bobby (that's a bronze dog).
People similar to affect the Bobby dog's olfactory organ for luck , thence the patina has completely worn off.
This sometime British human (who comes from the Lake District) asked Nicholas to back upward him spell he took some pictures of Bobby together with the Bobby sign (both on his iPad together with his DSLR). I was asked to check the cane. Nicholas helped him cross the street together with set him into his automobile together with when Nicholas asked "Are you lot okay now?" he started rummaging inwards a pocketbook together with asked us to accept some 'sweeties'.
Greyfriar's Bobby is a terrier who didn't exit the grave of his possessor for xiv years subsequently his death. They country this , but Scotland is cold. And wet. The even out goes that the cemetery staff tried to boot him out , failed , together with ended upward letting him stay. When he died at the ripe sometime historic menstruation of xvi , they buried him only exterior the cemetery together with erected a niggling statue together with outflow for you lot to pat. They also opened a pub inwards his award , because it's Scotland.
We together with thence went to Grassmarkets together with I bought a map from a niggling fine art store. According to the map , nosotros should meet badgers together with squirrels. We conduct maintain seen neither together with , frankly , I'm glad. Oliver told us some horror stories nearly badgers spell nosotros were inwards London.
This is the map. You tin meet Nessie at Inverness together with lots of whales together with seals nearby. I liked the add-on of the Shetland Pony.
In my caput badgers await similar this together with are the size of a fluffy bunny. Apparently this is wrong together with they are huge together with terrifying.
We poked to a greater extent than or less inwards some to a greater extent than shops earlier heading to The Meadows to conduct maintain a nap inwards the sun. Despite beingness sunny together with plainly 'wonderful weather' , nosotros ended upward going dorsum to Fergus' house for a nap.
The Meadows
Nicholas having a nap inwards the meadows.
Scotland is really Scottish.
We bought this bill of fare because nosotros didn't know what it said. We fifty-fifty asked Fergus together with he didn't know what it said. Luckily there's a Scottish-English slang lexicon on the internet. It basically way "goodness gracious me" or "for god's sake". It's the Bobby domestic dog we'd seen inwards the morning.
