Last Day in Edinburgh

Thankfully, Bill’s morning sickness has passed.  I ran his butt all around Edinburgh today.  We decided to go to Rosslyn Chapel which was in the last scene of the movie/book, “The DaVinci Code.”  There were various tours offered but I decided we would do it the cheap way.  After all, it is just a bus ride away.   We asked three different people how to get to the correct bus stop and got three different answers.  The one who was correct is the only stuttering bus driver in Edinburgh so it took me a while to get the information out of him.  I almost asked him to sing it (stutterers don’t stutter when they sing).  When we finally got to the right bus stop, after jaywalking back and forth down a busy street. We were freezing and had to wait 45 minutes because we missed the bus.

Although there is extensive preservation ongoing on Rosslyn Chapel, it was very interesting, especially after seeing the movie.  You were not allowed to take pictures inside so I can’t post any of those.  However, I will put up a picture of me standing on the same bridge that Tom Hanks stood at the end of the movie.  We did much better catching the correct bus on the way back.

We took a cab to the top of the Royal Mile, the part that Bill got sick on and walked down the places we flashed by yesterday.  Deacon Brodie’s is a café/tavern where Robert Lewis Stevenson got his character for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.  Had a wonderful dessert at the café and walked across the street and had a wonderful pint at the tavern.

I really wanted to go on a tour of the underground vaults of Edinburgh.  They had several types of tours – historical tour, ghost finding tour, and scary tour.  When Patrick and I were here years ago we checked into the tour.  I asked the lady how scary it was and she said, “You may pee your pants.”  That was pre-bladder surgery and I thought I would be tempting fate with that one.  Now I have a fully-reconstructed bladder and thought I could do it easily.  But guess what – Bill wimped out.  I guess he thought he would do more than just pee his pants.

We spent out final meal with our new found friend, Paul Mcsomething at Rabbie Burns Bar.  Paul has been so kind to us and we really enjoy his company.  He sits with us while we eat and talks.  Bill can’t understand a word he says but has learned to nod appropriately.  Paul is a Mason so I asked him all about the legends of the Knights of the Templar and Rosslyn Chapel.  He pretty much told me they were just Hollywood.

For our last day in Edinburgh, the weather cooperated.  It was cold, much colder than in Scandinavia, but it did not rain.  We actually saw a bit of the sun today.  Tomorrow we will fly to Belfast where our friends will pick us up.  We shipped home shoes and clothes so we can hopefully make the baggage weight limit on the flight to Belfast.

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