Edinburgh is a very old and very busy city. We took a bus tour to see all the sites which had horrible histories commentary. It was so funny!
One of the places we visited was Edinburgh Castle. It sits high above the city on a huge rock which is really the plug of a volcano.
The Castle walls where the archers would fire their arrows.
This gun fires at 1pm everyday except Sundays.
War Memorial
Mons Meg. A big canon that was used to blast holes into castle walls.
These are the canon balls it used.
Dog Cemetery where the soldiers buried their dogs.
Kings and Queens of Scotland exhibition
The Great Hall full of swords and armour and pistols. It was cool!
For lunch mum took us to the Hard Rock café which was very noisy and crowded and had lots of music stuff on the walls. We sat in a booth beneath a bass guitar that belonged to Pete Farndon from The Pretenders.
We also visited a tartan museum where you could watch them make tartan, and buy lots of things in every clan tartan possible. We got some Clan MacLennan and Clan Thomson things as they are my mums Great Grandparents Clans.
We then went to the Museum of Childhood which had lots of displays of toys and even some you could play with!
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