Edinburgh
In the holidays, I went to Scotland for a week and first we went to Edinburgh and then to Aberdeen afterwards. When we arrived in Edinburgh, we went to Arthur’s Seat, which is an extinct volcano; Arthur’s Seat is 250.5 m (822 ft) high, and it was really hard work climbing up it, but was worth it because it had loads of amazing views all around.
Arthurs seat
Arthurs sea view
A tomb on Arthurs seat.
The next day we went to Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, which was brilliant. It had loads of good views from the top and you can spy on people, give them electric shocks and play the stairs, when you walked on the stairs they played the piano and so much more. From the gift shop I got a Spy pen and a static science kit. My favourite thing there was a mirror maze, which was really tricky.
camera obscura
Camera Obscura
camera obscura binoculars
mirror maze
my ghost shaking hands with me
me swimming in the fishes
crackle ball
world of illusions
electricity stuff
telescope camera obscura
Headless Me
me and my skeleton
camera obscura
scottish flag
Then we went to a really nice restaurant for dinner, called Ondine, and had lots of shellfish.
ondine seafish platter
Then we went to Edinburgh Castle and saw the 1 ‘O’ clock gun, my favourite part was the prisons and, I got locked in one of them, with GEORGIA.
The royal mile
Edinburgh castle
Me with a bagpiper statue
Edinburgh castle view
Edinburgh castle soldier
cannon controlling
Then for tea we went to the Scran and Scallie and I had fish and chips.
The Scran and Scallie
fish goujons and homemade tartare sauce
salad
Roast potatos
giant cookie
On the last day for dinner we went to a restaurant called Fishers, which is right next to the sea, and ate lots more seafood.
seafood
oysters
mussels
Fishers
Afterwards we went to Greyfriars Kirk and found out the story of Greyfriars bobby (a dog) his owner is an Edinburgh policeman named John Gray who died in 1858. His dog was so loyal that he watched over his dead master’s grave at the Greyfriars Cemetery for 14 years until his own death in 1872.
Greyfriars church
Greyfriars bobby grave
graves
Greyfriars bobby statue
This is one of the graves that J.K Rowling used for ideas of names for Harry Potter characters.
harry potter grave
I LOVE EDINBURGH
My favourite place that we went to was Camera Obscura and World of Illusions.
Edinburgh is lovely. I wish we could live there!
Me to, but Daddy says the weather is rubbish!
I’ve been to Edinburgh and loved it like you,but you did so much more that I want to go back now and see all the other parts that look so good in your blog.
Arthur’s seat looks an interesting place with great views.Your skeleton looks cool.What was you favourite part of the camera obscura and illusions?
Did you have a good time in the castle?
That was a sad story about Greyfrairs Bobby and interesting to learn how J.K Rowling used the graves for her novel names.Well done-keep up the blogging.x
I’m not sure maybe the electricity room.
Yes it was really interesting in there.
Another great blog post Dillon! I love reading about what you’ve been up to and it always makes me want to go to the places you’ve been! Camera Obscura sounds cool. I wonder who thought of all those good ideas for fun things to do there.
How funny that you’ve walked through the same graveyard as J K Rowling! Maybe since you’re so good at writing you’ll write some very famous books one day like her! Xxx