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Spookiness at the Edinburgh Dungeon

31 October 201431 October 2014

EdinDungeon

We’ve been alternately curious and skeptical about the Edinburgh Dungeon since we moved to town, so when we were invited to check it out, we gave it a go.  

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Edinburgh: tea in the afternoon

21 July 201421 July 2014

Scotsman Hotel Afternoon Tea

There’s a meal that exists here that hasn’t existed in any other place we’ve lived. It occurs in the afternoon, as the name would imply. The consumption of actual tea, however, is entirely optional. 

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Edinburgh: Scenes from an open-top bus tour

18 December 201430 June 2014
EdinburghBusTour 9
The castle from Inverleith Park

Like most tourist-centric European cities, Edinburgh is full of open-topped double-decker hop-on-hop-off bus tours.

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Question Time at the Scottish Parliament

15 July 201428 March 2014

Scottish Parliament 7

Down at the lower end of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, across the street from the queen’s summer house, you’ll find the architectural anomaly that is the Scottish Parliament. You’ll have no trouble picking it out from the surrounding medieval buildings that make up Old Town.

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Exploring Edinburgh: The Real Mary King’s Close

15 July 201425 November 2013
Burnet's Close, Edinburgh's Royal Mile
Burnet’s Close, Edinburgh’s Royal Mile (not Mary King’s Close)

We’ve been having fun playing tourists in Edinburgh over the past couple months. One of the attractions we tried out was The Real Mary King’s Close.

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Edinburgh: seeing things at the Camera Obscura

15 July 201430 October 2013

Scott's head on a platter

Recently we spent a couple days being tourists in our own city, getting to know some of the attractions Edinburgh has to offer. One of our first stops was the Camera Obscura and World of Illusions.

 

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