Best of Scotland 2016
a dolly on tour
Naptime on Wednesday was just under 2 hours. And then it was time to meet the tour group! We had a little intro meeting in the B&B. Rick Steves tours use the buddy system; you pick a buddy that you’ve never met before, and then we do a buddy check before moving on to the next destination. My buddy was the lady sitting next to me, and she ended up being a pharmacy technician at the pharmacy closest to Marjorie’s first apartment, about a mile from the house she grew up in. Small world.
You can see part of our tour group in the above photo. After our introduction, we set off on a walking tour of Edinburgh’s New Town. In the photo, we are following our guide's advice and sitting. Travel tip: whilst on walking tours, sit down at every opportunity, because you won't always have the chance.
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It may be called Edinburgh's New Town, but in this case “new” refers to 1740. It's a Georgian planned community with gridded blocks and row homes.
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Our walking tour ended with a group dinner. I left dinner as soon as possible, along with the other people who had arrived in Edinburgh that morning. We were so tired! I wish we had allowed more time to adjust to jetlag before our tour began. But oh, I slept so well that first night in Scotland!