Brad & Mels big adventure: A few days in Edinburgh

Brad had to be the hard working one, while Mel went off to Edinburgh to hang out with Danielle and Ryan for a few days. First stop was Birmingham overnight. There's not a huge amount to do in Birmingham, but I did see a church, a nice park, the bus station and the train station.

Bizarre building

Church

Next up was a ridiculously early train from Birmingham to Edinburgh, where we were lucky to be able to stay with Danielle and her flatmate Yvette. Monday afternoon Ryan visited Edinburgh castle while I had a nap (done the castle previously), then we went to a good old scottish pub on the Royal Mile for dinner before doing the halloween pub quiz (sadly we weren't very good - just don't watch enough horror movies). On Tuesday we wandered around the city while it attempted to rain, and then we spent the afternoon at Chocolate soup, where we enjoyed some excellent chocolate brownie sandwhiches.

Wednesday put on a much better day for us, so we began our day of climbing. First up, we climbed up Arthurs seat for a great view of Edinburgh. We followed that by wandering the length of the Royal Mile then climbed Scott Monument (a very narrow winding staircase - 287 steps in total). In the evening we headed up Carlton hill for a great view of the sunset before we made our way to yet another pub for dinner.

A great few days hanging out in Edinburgh