Last day in Scotland

This will be very short and sweet today because I literally did nothing. Haven't been out in the car at all....
I've picked up a bit of a cold, so I thought I would just stay put today and I have to admit, I really enjoyed my day.

Anyway, there was plenty of local entertainment!!!

The cruise liner came in as was noted yesterday. It stopped just the other side of the Railway Bridge and the passengers all disembarked via little boats. They started at about 7am and they were still going at 11am...  Now they're all queuing up to go back on the ship again.

Here's this morning;s queue...

Passengers coming in and lining up for the buses

Passengers coming in and lining up for the buses

As you can see there was a misty rain about so they all had their wet weather gear on...

Here's the ship..

Ship in port

Ship in port

I think someone said it's The Caribbean Princess, but I wouldn't swear to that.

Buses queued up to take people into town.

There were heaps of buses lined up ... all with different destinations. I saw one was going to the Royal Yacht Britannia, one was going to the City Centre etc... Also there were plenty of Hop On Hop Off buses too.... I think nearly every spare bus in Edinburgh was roped in. Again somebody said it's something like 3000 people they had to move. No wonder they had to rope off all the parking.

Apart from the entertainment of the ship's arrival, there was more....

Went for  a walk after brekky and just down the road was the beginning of the Edinburgh to Rome car rally. They literally left as I watched. They had heaps of different horns and sounds.... who needs to go somewhere else for entertainment!!!

Car rally

Car rally

Walked down to the village for lunch and just took my time... so nice to just go at a gentle pace today.

Then I could sit and watch them all queuing up to get back on the ship again!!!

Going back on the ship

As most of you know I would barely contemplate going on a cruise, but what I saw today put me off even thinking about it!!! 

Ship turned around and ready to go.

So that was my last day in Scotland. To celebrate my wonderful holiday here I went down to the bar and ordered a wee dram of Glenfiddich - for medicinal purpose only, of course!!!

Now I have to attack my suitcase in preparation for my flight to Dublin tomorrow. I will make sure my jar of Vegemite is in my big suitcase this time! Because it's a smaller plane I have to make sure I don't go over weight limit, so might need to do a little re-arranging and make sure I wear my heaviest clothes!!!

Scotland has been just magnificent. I left this hotel on May 8 and have done a complete circuit of the country. The scenery has been awesome - not only the mountains and the lochs, but the coastal scenery and the islands I have visited.

How lucky am I to have had this wonderful experience. And even though writing this blog has been a bit of a discipline at times, I know I can come back to it when I return and re-live all those magical places I have visited.

I am very blessed!!!

PS A few people have been saying their daily emails are not getting through. I'm not sure why..?? Just check your spam file or junk file maybe...???? Because I send the same email to over 100 people it might be classing it as spam. Anyway, you can always just go straight to the blog and hit refresh in your browser, and it should put the current day's post up.
Or, up on the top right where the months are listed is a little arrow next to each month, click on this arrow and it will give you a drop down list of all the posts also.
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