Our Outstanding Adventures: Edinburgh, Scotland

After London we flew from the London City airport to Edinburgh. If you are flying out of London and can fly from London City do it! It is a wonderful small airport, that isn't very busy. It's a super quaint not busy airport, which is nice especially in London. Anyways, we flew to Edinburgh and stayed 2 nights there. (I wish we could've stayed longer!) We stayed at the Apex Waterloo Hotel. Which was a nice hotel right in the middle of town. We could pretty much walk everywhere. We did the hop on hop off bus tour, which i HIGHLY recommend in any town you are in. It gives you an overview of the city and then you can get off and see what you want. It was great. The first day we just rode it and only got off at the Edinburgh Castle and the Scotch Whiskey experience and then our second day we went to Holyrood Palace. The "new" main street in Edinburgh has some great shopping and the "old" main street (to the castle) has some good touristy shopping, if you are looking for typical Scottish things. The second day we were there that afternoon we went to St Andrews. It is about an hour and half away, but gorgeous to see. The golf course is so pretty and it's right on the ocean. The town of St. Andrews is also so pretty. I wish we could have stayed the night there and I know if we get back to Scotland we will. It was a very cute smaller town with lots to do. Seeing the countryside was wonderful. Everything was so green and pretty.

The view from the Castle

Listening to our audio guides at Holyrood Palace. Another thing I recommend is getting the audio guides at places that offer them. They have some great info on them!