We got up early and began our trek to Edinburgh...lots of lovely scenery along the way...
...stopped in Ardwick at this cemetery....
...then stopped completely on the A1 due to this accident by the Cat Inn. We waited for about 30 minutes, when the police finally started going car to car to say that it was going to be hours before they opened the motorway again. We turned around and thanks to my superior map reading skills, found another way to go.
Which led us to some lovely little towns! This is a cemetery/church in Ford....
Lady Waterford Manor.....
Etal Castle....
...and finally back around to the A1, above where the motorway was STILL closed....and on to Berwick upon Tweed!
We wandered along the wall in Berwick, and a bit of the town....then on to....
Scotland! We got to Edinburgh, checked in, got the LAST of only 9 parking spaces at the Holiday Inn...and began walking about. We walked up to Princes Street...saw the Walter Scott monument, looked up at the castle, bought some junk for the kids, and had soup at Marks & Spencers.
We happened to be walking by a few minutes before a ghost tour of the some of the vaults was about to begin...something I really wanted to do! So Andrew humored me, and we went on the tour. It was awesome. The tour took about an hour and a half, but our guide was also a history tour-guide during the day, so had some great stories about the city. The vaults and the stories that went with them were horrible though...but super creepy and cool too :)
Then back to the hotel for the night. Day 4 is the castle!
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