Reisebericht: Tour von Edinburgh Castle nach Greyfriar Bobby´s Grave

As you are already next to the Church it is worth paying attention to it and to go in for a few minutes and - hopefully on a sunny day - to watch the reflections of the imressive stained glass windows.However, the most important information about the Royal Mile is that it connects the Edinburgh Castle in the North with the Holyrood Palace and the new, controversial Scotish Parliament in the South. Surely, there are some people who like to see the castle from inside - who like to see the room where Mary, Queen of Scots gave birth to her son James, the future King of Scotland and England - who like to see the Stone of Destiny as well as the Scottish Crown Jewels, called the Honours of Scotland, Nevertheless this takes about 2 hours, so that probably some of you are satisfied with a picture of each on a flyer and spend their time in a maybe more fun and exciting place - the Camera Obscura right below the Castle.

As the touristy day moves on you will surely feel the need to get something to eat. Unsurprisingly, the Royal Mile offers you a wide variety of places to have lunch, coffee, dinner and of course beer or whisky. So there are lots of traditional pubs, inexpensive and less known as well as smaller sandwich shops offering good food, young-people focused coffee shops, which offer you soups-of-the-day, as well as maintream shops like Starbucks and Subway. All in all you indeed have more than one option to spend your lunchbreak. However, as we are on our touristic route its appropriate to have a propper Scottish Haggis with Neeps and Tatties in one of the local pubs. Cheaper, but still typical, is having fast food á la Scotland: deep fried Fish&Chips.

After having lunch it is time to take a walk to the graveyard. “Why go to a graveyard?“, you might wonder. But this is not just any graveyard. It is THE graveyard. The graveyard where you can find the most haunted Mausoleum in Edinburgh and even more important: the graveyard including Greyfriar Bobby´s Grave! The grave itself is worshipped with a few pale-coloured plastic flowers and rain-soaked cuddle toys. You might not have heard of “Bobby, the Terrier“ who, after the death of his owner, used to come to his grave for the rest of his live, 14 years, to still take care of him. Just around the corner Edinburgh dedicated Bobby a statue, which now ist the most photographed statue in Edinburgh - so feel free to unpack you camera and take the 100.000th Bobby-picture to update your photogallery.

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