Day Two

Today was packed full!

Waking up (late, and missing breakfast) we first drove from Burntisland into Kirkcaldy where my grandfather and grandmother Glachan lived in a small house and had their children, including my grandpa Glachan (whom I've never met- he passed long before I was born). We drove to the exact address of the house and took a picture to bring back and show my dad! Some neighbours helped us find the house, and an older couple down the street who had lived there since the development was built tried to reminisce for us on the Glachans, but the name only rang a faint bell and they could tell us no more on the subject. However they did go into some details on the community. It was a mining community, and had gone up around the 1940s or 50s. They were so charming and cute, and we let them get back to breakfast and we were on our way to Edinburgh!

On the far left! 

Before Edinburgh, we stopped at a little restaurant in Aberdour for our first meal of the day. It was right on the shore of the North Sea, and the weather was so incredibly beautiful we sat outside! I ate a burger and of course grabbed a tea, and we ate overlooking mountains and water, not to mention blue skies. 

Restaurant/cafe called 'Sands'

We could see this across the bay- "Arthur's Seat". I want to add more on this later! 

Our view

We took a pretty long time to get to Edinburgh, still getting used to the driving and whatnot. Plus not knowing directions exactly was a pain! We all needed to use the internet pretty badly, my mom for work reasons and myself and my sister for more personal reasons (to write to you all!) so we looked around for a spot with wifi. We found a little pub/cafe and sat for a while; I ordered tea as per usual and caught up on things on my computer.

Next was the Royal Mile! We parked in a car park just beneath the Edinburgh Castle, and walked around to the other end to start from the bottom and go back to the top where the castle is. We didn't quite make it to the very end, which would have been Holyrood Park and Palace, but we did and saw a lot. There were so many shops that we went in and bought some little souvenirs here and there, plus we ate dinner at a small tucked away cafe where I ordered HAGGIS!! We walked back up to the castle, but it was closed then and we couldn't even go up to the courtyard due to construction. That was a huge bummer, but we did do something called the Mary King's Close tour.

The Mary King's Close tour is an underground tour of what used to be a close, or narrow street, where people lived. In the case of historic person Mary King, it was the 1700s. It was poor, cramped, and dirty back then, and used to be open to the sky surrounded by ten foot buildings on either side. Now it is under a new building and has been converted to a historic site. On our tour, we saw an old house, barn, alleyway, apartment, and saw some neat spots where real murders happened and real people died from the plague. Keep in mind all of this was underground, and used to be concealed beneath street level when it was still occupied! I wasn't allowed to take pictures which is a shame, because it was one of the coolest things I've ever done.

The Royal Mile was beautiful, and you could get a sense of what it used to look like in the Middle Ages and even up to the Victorian Era. It was amazing! We drove back to our bed and breakfast in Burntisland, and now it is 12:30am and I should get some sleep... I think we get up at six :(

Here are some pictures. Many more to add later on Facebook!

Goodnight!

P.S. I wondered if you kept reading, because I wanted to add I ordered vegetarian haggis. Haha, fooled you! Turns out they were out anyway so I just ate a panini :D