Spain and Scotland May 2014
In May of 2014, Larry Rexford and I went to Madrid, Spain and then to Edinburgh, Scotland. Spain was nice but we did not stay for long or have enough time for much sightseeing. We had 4 days in Edinburgh and it was wonderful.
We flew directly from DFW to Madrid, stayed for all of one day and then were off to Edinburgh for the rest of the week. I did not get to see any more of Scotland than the city of Edinburgh, but it makes me want to go back for a week or two to look
around the country. The people were very nice, food and drinks were great, sightseeing was great.
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Edinburgh Castle is in the center of town, seems to be the highest point in town. The city of Edinburgh built up around the castle. There is a lot of history there, you can spend the whole day going through the different museums and crawling through the different parts of the castle. This castle is to the Scots what the Tower of London is to the Brits.
It’s May here but Scotland is still pretty cool, it seems like it rains quite a bit here, everything is green as the greenest grass. This morning in the middle of May, it was in the 30s.
In the middle of May it’s still daylight at 10 PM so you can tell we are pretty far up north. Even though we are up pretty far north, we are still in the very southernmost part of Scotland,
not too far above the border with Great Britain.
From where I’m at I can see the North Sea about half a mile from us. It’s called the Firth of Forth. I can see ships and offshore oil derricks going out into the North Sea.
