Tuesday, May 30, 2006
More pictures from Scotland
Ok ok, yeah, we’ve been home nearly a month, and I just now got around to uploading the last of the digital pictures from Edinburgh. There’s nothing on TV now, so I figured I’d do it ;-)
So anyhoo….here’s a pic of the Princess Street Gardens, and I like to call it “Where’s Waldo?” :-) Its not often I guess that Edinburgers (is that what they’re called?) get to sit out in the sun, but the week we were there was mostly in the mid to high 70sF
Before this was a city garden park, it was known as Nor Loch (North Lake), and its where they used to toss witches to see if they float. If she floated, she’s a witch. If she sank, oops, an apology was made to the family. Tho apparently everyone would secretly hope that she sank, even if they knew she wasn’t a witch. Because if she floated, then obviously she was a witch, held up by the hands of the Devil himself, and of course the rest of her family would be witches as well, and would be burned at the stake at the gates of the Castle.
Here’s the Wiki entry about the Nor Loch
It was filled in sometime in the 19th century and turned into the park we see today. It’s a beautiful place. I wish we could have seen more of it. We only walked thru a couple of times, never really stopped to look around much or get a feel for its history. Maybe next time.
Next up is a shot of Arthur’s Seat. I’ve no idea why they call it that. It’s an extinct (we hope!) volcano, twin to the Castle Rock, also a volcano, upon which Edinburgh Castle is built.
I got that picture as we were walking to Discovery Earth, where we take a trip thru time from the Big Bang to well into the future. A Scottish, much cooler version of the Science Centre! One room is particularly cool, there’s an actual chunk of a glacier there!
And here are a few new bronze friends we met there.
James, tweeking a saber tooth tiger in the nose!
Me, hugging a cave woman. She actually growled at me when I put my arm round her!
And a couple of dead Dodo birds
I’m really very sorry there are no more Dodo birds on the planet. They, like the duckbilled platypus, are examples of The Creator’s sense of humour ;-)
And last but not least, Sunset over Old Town
That’s about it. We took dozens and dozens of pictures, but I can’t possibly post them all.
I wish I could go back, we missed so much. And I miss it already.
*sigh* ¶ 11:53 PM
So anyhoo….here’s a pic of the Princess Street Gardens, and I like to call it “Where’s Waldo?” :-) Its not often I guess that Edinburgers (is that what they’re called?) get to sit out in the sun, but the week we were there was mostly in the mid to high 70sF
Before this was a city garden park, it was known as Nor Loch (North Lake), and its where they used to toss witches to see if they float. If she floated, she’s a witch. If she sank, oops, an apology was made to the family. Tho apparently everyone would secretly hope that she sank, even if they knew she wasn’t a witch. Because if she floated, then obviously she was a witch, held up by the hands of the Devil himself, and of course the rest of her family would be witches as well, and would be burned at the stake at the gates of the Castle.
Here’s the Wiki entry about the Nor Loch
It was filled in sometime in the 19th century and turned into the park we see today. It’s a beautiful place. I wish we could have seen more of it. We only walked thru a couple of times, never really stopped to look around much or get a feel for its history. Maybe next time.
Next up is a shot of Arthur’s Seat. I’ve no idea why they call it that. It’s an extinct (we hope!) volcano, twin to the Castle Rock, also a volcano, upon which Edinburgh Castle is built.
I got that picture as we were walking to Discovery Earth, where we take a trip thru time from the Big Bang to well into the future. A Scottish, much cooler version of the Science Centre! One room is particularly cool, there’s an actual chunk of a glacier there!
And here are a few new bronze friends we met there.
James, tweeking a saber tooth tiger in the nose!
Me, hugging a cave woman. She actually growled at me when I put my arm round her!
And a couple of dead Dodo birds
I’m really very sorry there are no more Dodo birds on the planet. They, like the duckbilled platypus, are examples of The Creator’s sense of humour ;-)
And last but not least, Sunset over Old Town
That’s about it. We took dozens and dozens of pictures, but I can’t possibly post them all.
I wish I could go back, we missed so much. And I miss it already.
*sigh* ¶ 11:53 PM
