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Tales of French Chocolate and Scottish Hills

Thursday, 10th of May 2007

On our last morning in Edinburgh we decided to skip the breakfast in the Hotel and instead go to a cafe. My wife suggested to visit the Plaisir du Chocolat, a french style tearoom near Canongate. Because I’m a huge fan of chocolate it wasn’t very difficult for her to persuade me.
And it was indeed [...]

Edinburgh Castle

Wednesday, 9th of May 2007

As I was feeling much better this morning my wife and I decided to resume our original plan and visit the castle today. Instead of walking up the Royal Mile we approached from Grassmarket. This provided us with an impressive view of the castle from below.

After climbing up a lot of stairs we reached the [...]

(Not) Exploring Edinburgh on a single day

Tuesday, 8th of May 2007

My wife and I had a lot of plans for our first visit in Edinburgh. We wanted to visit the castle, walk down the Royal Mile, climb on Arthur’s Seat and do many more things. But there is an old saying that no battle plans survive first contact with the enemy.
The enemy in this case [...]