Showing posts with label #travelingprindles. Show all posts
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Friday, May 8, 2015

( sunday & monday in edinburgh )

Dear Friends & Family,

I have to apologize for leaving things unfinished...I never got a chance to write about the last two days. It's been so long now that I hope I am able to still capture the essence of our trip.

 But I have jet lag, and I'm getting over some kind of cold. My brain is a little fuzzy, and there may be some grammatical errors.

From what my fuzzy brain can remember, Sunday was our last full day, so we explored museums. We started our day having breakfast with our friends one last time before they went to the convention. After that we parted ways to explore. Museums are free in Edinburgh. How awesome is that? And it was raining that day, so being indoors was exactly what we needed.

Our last dinner was made special by making reservations at Devil's Advocate with a large selection of whisky & scotch. We came across it on our first day of exploring, and we knew we wanted to come back to treat ourselves. We focused on trying new scotch. I'm usually not a scotch fan due to the peatiness, but there were a few I could easily sip all night. We ended our night at a small beer bar enjoying our last Edinburgh craft beer.

Monday we had a few hours to kill before we had to leave to the airport. We walked around areas we hadn't gone before and came across some beautiful cemeteries, a coffee shop carrying coffee from The Barn (in Berlin) playing A Tribe Called Quest, and walking around the Scottish National Portrait Museum to kill the last hour.

I think that's the best I can do, so here are more photos for your viewing enjoyment!
***unfortunately some of the photos came out pixelated when uploaded. Click on the first photo for gallery view...

xoxo,
The Prindles.



































Tuesday, April 14, 2015

{ friday & saturday in edinburgh }

Dear Friends & Family,

Friday we woke up well rested and had plans to meet our friends in from San Diego. They had been in Europe for a few weeks going to Paris, and seeing other parts of Scotland exploring their heritage.

After having breakfast at a place called Mums, we showed our friends Greyfriars Kirkyard, and we continued exploring the town as we headed to the Edinburgh Castle. We spent a few hours there taking pictures.

Fun random discovery, John is part Scottish. Almost six years together, and I did not know that! We found his grandparents' last names in a registry, but unfortunately we were unable to take photos inside the museum. I wrote the names down at least to look them up later.

Saturday we spent the entire day at the Scottish Tattoo Convention.

So many pictures!...so I'll just leave it at that.

xoxo,
The Prindles.