EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND
October 17-20, 2003
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Oct 19, 2003 - It was a bit rainy so we took our time getting out of the flat. We were going to walk down over that bridge outside the flat down to the garden and Dean's Village, but as soon as we were out front it started pouring so we went back in the house. Then Mackenzie and I took off to walk around town a bit. These are some of the cute streets heading up to the old part of town and the Royal Mile.
Hey, did the Mackenzie Poltergeist just walk by...
The Deacon Brodie Tavern is named after the guy who was the inspiration for Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde story. Seems the pious, upstanding citizen by day was a gambler and thief by night. Brodie was hanged from the city's new gallows which he happened to have designed.
Beside St Giles Cathedral is the Heart of Midlothian - a heart set into the cobbles of the street, marking the site of the 15th century tollbooth of Edinburgh, demolished in 1817. The tollbooth features in Sir Walter Scott's 1818 novel 'The Heart of Midlothian'. The criminal fraternity used to spit on the door of the tollbooth as they passed, and this tradition is still maintained to this day, with many locals still spitting on the heart as they walk past (it's suppose to bring luck, our luck was that Mackenzie didn't get spit on while standing there).
As we were walking back to the flat we thought we'd do a 'self-portrait' with the castle behind us just as the sun was setting.
To the Highlands
