Edinburgh and Leith, castles, museums, and crags

Views from Princes Street.
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Really, I don't know what this is,
but can you tell me?
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Views of the Edinburgh Castle from Princes Street.
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Wow, the Castle looks scary from Johnston Terrace.
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Views from the castle's Terrace (OK, parking lot.)
The Pentland hills
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Arthur's Seat
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Arthur's Seat
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Arthur's Seat
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Calton Hill rises above, um, stuff.
Is that Northbridge?
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Calton Hill and a body of water that I will
identify next time I see a map of Edinburgh.
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Views of and from the Castle ramparts
Mons Meg, born in 1457, is a big siege gun.
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Now that is a cannon.
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The shot of the big cannon
with size 9.5 boot to compare.
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The Walter Scot memorial and Princes St.
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The Pentland Hills with a
normal amount of Scottish fog
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The Pentland Hills with a
large amount of Scottish fog
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Modern cannon on deck.
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The oldest building standing in Edinburgh.
1124 is a long time ago.
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Me and Edinburgh
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Closeup of Arthur's Seat.
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The Union Jack of the United Kingdom flies over
the Royal Apartments in Edinburgh Castle.
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But the Scottish Saltire flies above the guns of the Forewall Battery.
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Exterior views of the Scottish War Memorial and the Royal Highlanders who staff it.
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Me and the portcullis gate.
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Victoria St from above
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Mmmmm, lunch. Lunch was a chicken tikka sandwich at The Elephant's Sufficiency. Did you know an elephant once lived at Edinburgh Castle?

Then I walked down the Royal Mile.


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