Stilt walkers, jugglers, magicians, bagpipe players in kilts, bagpipe players in dresses, bagpipe players with cloven hooves, Korean drummers, balloon swallowers, Aussie whipcrackers, street bands, the list goes on. And that’s just in the street. We started the day slowly with an open top bus tour,a walk through a 1500’s National Trust house across the road from our flat, a walk to the closed Portrait Gallery to see Boswell, a duck into the Hollyrood Castle shop for a postcard of the Queen (wait for it Jo) and a very good world press photography exhibition in the new Scottish Parliament. Now that’s an outstanding building!
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson