Day 13: Edinburgh

Wel woke up feeling as though we had made an excelent choice staying
in Crail. People there were so friendly and helpful and even ended up
doing our laundy for us for nothing. We felt warm, dry and rejuvinated
and headed down to Edinburgh. We stopped at Arberdour castle along the
way and toured the castle dated from the 1200's deciding that it was
easily the best cost value tour (free) to date.

We headed into Edinburgh in time for the all the roads to be closed
down for the Edinburgh festival. With nowhere to stay, and a map that
seemed to from another town, and multiple closed roads and detours, we
not only ended up (with major effort) to find the car rental place to
drop off the car, but also found an amazing deal on a hotel by calling
the lowest budget hotel we could find. Since they had no room at the
1 star hotel, they decided to help us out and pull a few strings and
got us in at a very upscale hotel for the same price of 99 pounds. We
arrived at the hotel to find that we had been upgraded again to the
best room in the place that would regularly go for 316 pounds! (I
think thats about $425/night). How lucky are we? We are booked for 2
nights in a posh dead center downtown Edinburgh hotel with an amazing
view of the castle and walking distance from the craziness of the
goings on of the festivals.

Craig you'd be proud of us and the deal we got here.

Seems as though all of Scotland is roaming the streets for the once
yearly festival. So, tonight we are joining the locals, taking in the
town, pub crawling through Edinburgh.

Tomorrow: Edinburgh festivals, the castle and maybe the dungeon.

The pic: A view of Edinburgh castle as seen from the farmers market we
stopped at along the way.