Edinburgh

We just wandered around Edinburgh today.

 

The main attraction is the castle. These are from one side.

 

 

 

And this is from the other side.

 

 

From Rick Steves' Scotland guide book regarding Deacon Brodie's Tavern: "Brodie—a pillar of the community by day but a burglar by night—epitomizes the divided personality of 1700s Edinburgh. It was a rich, productive city—home to great philosophers and scientists, who actively contributed to the Enlightenment. Meanwhile, the Old Town was riddled with crime and squalor. The city was scandalized when a respected surgeon—driven by a passion for medical research and needing corpses—was accused of colluding with two lowlifes, named Burke and Hare, to acquire freshly murdered corpses for dissection. (In the next century, in the late 1800s, novelist Robert Louis Stevenson would capture the dichotomy of Edinburgh’s rich-poor society in his Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.)"

 

 

 

 

These are some other sights from around town.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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