"That's Daylight Robbery"

So on Rob’s second weekend home I had planned for us to go to Edinburgh, Scotland. We can go up there without him using leave and it was just a place that we both really wanted to see. We left on a Saturday morning at an obscenely early hour for a weekend. We had a nice little road trip and by little I mean, it took us around 6-7 hours to get there but we did get to drive past Sherwood Forest and Robin Hood Country. Once we got a little further north the drive was on the coast, which was so beautiful to drive along, especially because the day was so nice and sunny. Those are rare here so we really do appreciate them when they happen.

Once we arrived and found our hotel we went to the Royal Mile… this is there main shopping road but that is only on one side, the other side has amazing views of Edinburgh Castle, some beautiful cemeteries and tons of monuments.

We just did some quick sightseeing so we would know where we wanted to go the next day. Once done walking all over, we went out to dinner in this way too fancy restaurant right at the end of the Royal Mile. We had to be done with dinner by 7:30 because we really wanted to go to a pub and watch the England, US World Cup game.

We decided to go to a pub right across the street from the restaurant and had so much fun. All of the Scots were cheering for the US and we were basically being congratulated on for being Americans. It was definitely the experience we were hoping for nut not expecting. The next day we woke up early and started our busy day by going to Edinburgh Castle early, because we were told it would be less busy in the morning.

(Rob at the Castle entrance)

(Me once we made it into the 3rd area of the castle)

This was not the case and it was packed and that was with crappy weather. We took a guided tour and learned a lot. It was definitely one of the coolest castles we have seen, but it was used for protection and battle more that just having royalty live there. After a morning at the castle we went home and got lunch and dried off since it was pouring rain by the time we left the castle. After lunch we took a bus tour around the city. This was a way for us to hit some cool spots that we didn’t even know about. Halfway through the tour we got out and went to the Museum of Scotland and saw the grave of Greyfriars Bobby.

We also saw Dolly at the museum and we were kind of excited about it.

After all of this we went back and got on the bus to finish the tour. This time the weather had gotten nice and sunny so we got to sit on top of the double-decker bus.

We drove through old town, which is where the plague had been, and they basically built a new city to keep everyone who was infected in the Old Town. After the tour ended we walked along the Royal Mile so we could do some shoe shopping for Rob. We then went to dinner at a Chinese Buffet restaurant. We were so excited but let down just a little. We went home and I passed out immediately. We woke up the next day and headed home. Edinburgh is an amazing city and the total opposite of London. We loved every second of being there. I guess I need to explain the post title. Back in the day in Scotland, they were being taxed for every window they owned. So people just bricked over there windows. But the people called it Daylight Robbery because the government was robbing them of daylight. This tax stopped when one of the queens built a palace in London that is basically made of windows.