Sunday August 25th Edinburgh

Relaxing last day in Edinburgh. Slept in a bit, enjoyed our hotel's breakfast and headed down, down the hill to the Palace of Holyroodhouse. We really enjoyed the self paced audio tour. Stopped for a coffee as we went uphill to our hotel. No photography inside the building, so just pictures of the gardens and the old abby.

A break in our day to do some laundry. In the afternoon we went to the Scotland National Museum and explored just one section which covered the history of Scotland. Large museum. Pretty cool lobby.

As we were leaving, we chatted with a young couple from San Jose. We compared traveling stories and then we headed out for our last shopping spree. This evening we went to a wonderful Italian restaurant near our hotel. Slow but good food.

One more note...

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Pretrip practice

Hello my friends and family. This is just a practice "run" of posting on our Britain blog. I always have to relearn the steps. So.... we leave on Monday Aug 19th mid morning flying thru Seattle and then straight to London. We arrive Tues morning around 9:50 am London time (which is 8 hrs ahead -or about 1AM our time) A rough itinerary London Edinburgh Inverness Edinburgh York Keswick ( Lake district of England) Shrewsbury Swansea ( Wales) and on to Cardiff Bath Wareham ("Jurassic Coast - south west coast) Oxford Cotswold Oxford London If you only see this page, there should be links somewhere on the page to get you to the other postings

Sunday Sept 8th London

We decided to visit the Churchill War rooms today. We figured out the tube (the underground) and traveled to the Westminster area. Met some folks from Ohio while standing in line waiting for our entry time. One of the gentlemen served at Kodiak in the navy. He and Dennis had a great "military in Alaska" chat. The War rooms and museum were great. The war museum was almost overwhelming with the amount of information displayed Clementine Churchill's room underground Afterwards we walked around the Parliment square garden adding photos of Big Bend, Westminster Cathedral,Westminster Bridge, the Parliment building and ALL the tourists. The clouds had cleared and it was beautiful. (Last nights forecast for today had been up to 75% chance of rain!) We sat at the park and then strolled up Whitehall street up to Trafalgar square...

One more. Coming home

I just had to add a coda. Our last trip on the underground. London underground and transit system is amazing. Dennis looked it up. 5 MILLION a day use the system. This picture really doesn't adequately show the morning commute crowds. Even with all the people you are on your train or tube within 5 minutes. Breakfast at our hotel, the underground and now at Heathrow. I was feeling pretty anxious about getting here and navigating Heathrow. But all went well. Dennis just has to put up with us being here early. 😘

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