We visited Edinburgh and The Tattoo

We went to the zoo and the botanical garden and then spend a few days with Neil and Barbara, who also had Tim, Lorna, Robyn and Toby syaing with them!

 
 
A Victorian Post Box - what letters have passed this way over the years?   Robert and his dog Alfie who walk up to the Arthur's Seat every day. They meet so many visitors Alfie has his own Instagram page: https://www.instagram.com/alfieswalks/?hl=en
     
 
Where are John and Liz - click to find out!
     
Edinburgh Castle with the stands for the Tattoo
 
A brazen seagull
     
 
The Edinburgh Newspaper   A heron - using Liz's new camera
     
Tiny coffins found in the 19th centuary - found by some young boys and now in the Edinbufgh Museum - no-one knows who put them there of what their significance is.
 
A carving in the Museum
 
 
On board The Royal Yatch Britannia
     
The stateroom
 
 
Thanks to fellow tourists who took this photograph   Liz in the captain's chair in the wheel house
     
 
Liz   John - on the gangway that the Queen would use
     
 
Greyfriar's Bobby   How people can stay still so long, we don't know!
     
The Scott Monument
     
The Tattoo was filmed - one of the camera men
 
Wonderful displays of marching bands!
 
 
A moorhen   A thistle - and a bee
     
 
John enjoys a drink at the oldest pub in Scotland   At the zoo
     
 
A penguin   A zebra
     
 
Liz and her bears   A tiger
     
Wonderful skin on the Rhino
     
 
A land hermit crab   A giraffe
     
 
A sloth   A monkey of some sort
     
Toby, Lorna, Robyn John and Barbara - on a walk
 
Yet another family meal!
 
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