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Edinburgh Tour Day 1

9/28/2019

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Saturday, 28 September 2019
Pronounce it "Ed-in-burr-ah".

Rick Steves:  "Edinburgh is the historical, cultural, and political capital of Scotland.  For nearly a thousand years, Scotland's kings, parliaments, writers, thinkers, and bankers have called it home.  Today, it remains Scotland's most sophisticated city."

Today we walk the Royal Mile. 
The Royal Mile is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town. The term was first used descriptively in W M Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), "...with its Castle and Palace and the royal mile between", and was further popularized as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920.

From the Castle gates to the Palace gates the street is almost exactly a mile (1.6 km) long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the royal history of Scotland, namely Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace (he official residence of the British monarch in Scotland), hence its name the "Royal Mile". 

The Sun is back!  But don't let Gerri's clothing choice fool you, it's a bit short of 60F at this point, and will only get to about 62F.


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Crap, we don't relish these crowds.  But we persevered, and found open space enough to press on.

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Interesting things along the way.
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If you were walking, you wouldn't have interested my camera - ha!
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The final resting place of John Knox - or as best as can be established.
                                                                                                        Inlet of the North Sea in the distance.
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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) was a British economist, philosopher, and author born in Scotland, as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy, and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ''The Father of Economics'' or ''The Father of Capitalism''. Smith wrote two classic works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759) and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (1776). The latter, often abbreviated as The Wealth of Nations, is considered his magnum opus and the first modern work of economics.


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                                              Lots to see at the National Museum of Scotland

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                                                                     Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) - the first mammal cloned
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              It's "Miller Time"!

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