Wednesday Today the plan was to walk the Royal Mile, climb Aurthur's Seat, find a store that sells Nomination flags and have a curry for tea. Tick all the boxes except one... climbing Aurthur's Seat. We did start walking it but then we got kind of hungry so we headed back doon. We will do it one day. I couldn't resist the urge to head to the nearest KFC and have a Zinger Tower burger. This is the burger that turned wee skinny Dave into fat Dave all those years ago. Luckily for me KFC didn't make it a permanent fixture on the menu otherwise I'd be a hell of a lot bigger than I am now.
We couldn't walk all the way to KFC without stopping off for a pint so half way up the mile there is a pub called Tolbooths. Really nice looking pub on the outside, pity about inside.
After the pint and burger (tear was running down my cheek with each bite) we walked past a pub advertising Scottish music live from 9 o'clock. After just doing the Irish music pub crawl in Dublin we thought we had to give it a go. So we headed to the Hostel for a bit of a rest.
We went out for dinner to the local curry house. We had a fantastic meal although it was not hot enough. The waiter kept me in stitches. Here's this little Indian guy with the biggest Jock accent you'd ever hear. After drying my eyes and paying the bill we went next door to the pub. The music was ok but I put that down to the singer and the style he sings rather than Scottish music in general. Again Jane knocked back a Bulmers or two (I've lost count how many she's had) while I sat back on the waters and coke.
Check out tomorrow is pretty early then it's a 5 hour train ride to the Highlands where I doubt we'll get Internet access. I'll write more when we hit Greenock.
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