Our hostel is pretty awesome, it's really clean, the staff are friendly, there's discounts on tours to the highlands and pub crawls. There's free breakfast here but I slept in instead, we decided to see Edinburgh castle which is just across the street from our hostel. As we were walking up the hill towards the castle we stopped in what looked just like another touristy shop with plaid scarves and Scottish hats, but it turned out to have a factory in the basement where they made all the tartans. It was actually pretty cool. They also had medieval weapons for sale some of which were made in house. We then headed up to the castle, it was a lot cooler then I thought it would be, I guess parts of the castle were around during the Roman Empire and it had been under siege many times in its history. It even housed German POWs for a short period during WWII. There were old cannons lining the walls, a cemetery for the soldiers dogs, and they had the Scottish Crown Jewels on display today. Inside the main building was the Scottish War Memorial that had the names of every Scot who had died in Battle. There were a bunch of Hornes in both the WWI and WWII books, that was awesome to see. While we were at the top of the castle it hailed for a few minutes, that was strange.
We stopped for lunch and at the table next to us a old Scottish couple was celebrating their 40th anniversary. We ended up talking to them for quite awhile. They have a son living in Calgary and were going to meet them this summer. We didn't have any helpful suggestions on what to do in Calgary.
We booked at day trip to the highlands on Friday, we wanted to do two days but they weren't available and three days seemed too long. We're looking at going to Belfast on Saturday.
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