Ghosts, criminals, and famous witches

Now I won’t usually be updating this every day, but as I am in Edinburgh, I’ll have more stories and pictures to share. Today, we walked down toward the “new town" (built 1765) to buy cell phone packages (which I did (thank Mary Lou for me)). On the way down, we happened to pass the café where J. K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter book.

And after cell phones and a few more pragmatic stops, we perused a free gallery nearby. I think it was the national gallery. Anyway, by this time, our feet were aching and it was getting on dinner time. We wandered back toward the old town--passing many tourist shops--and found a cool pub with a decent deal on fish and chips. After dinner, we took a ghost tour of Edinburgh with an eccentric historian who wore a paisley vest only buttoned at the top to allow room for his belly, a tattered velvet coat with tails, a wild ascot, and a flattened top hat now held together by safety pins. He had an igorian gait about him and kept on ushering us to, “move along, mortals”. We ended the night at a famous pub near the square named, “The Last Drop”: said to be the preferred spot for criminals before their hanging.