hey guys welcome back to slow travel chronicles my name is stephanie and this is my husband garrett
and in this week's video we're going to talk to you about did we like edinboro scotland but
before we get to that we wanted to give you a little bit of background about why we went to
edinburgh so the who what when where how and why
our daughter graduated from college and we agreed to take her to europe for two weeks
we asked her where she wanted to go and she said russia no sorry uh there's a little conflict there
yeah in all fairness she made that decision like a year ago a long time ago scotland was always
her second choice so we said all right let's go she wanted to go see castles and palaces
and beautiful scenery so we agreed to take her to edinburgh we were there for what nine days
yeah we were there for nine days and so we really planned the entire trip she was getting ready for
finals looking for a job looking for apartments wrapping up her time in college so she didn't
have a lot to say other than i want to see castles and so the three of us went um for
two weeks total maybe 16 days something like that and we went to edinburgh we went to
a couple of other places specifically sterling inverness and the isle of skye and we're going
to talk about those three um places oh and saint andrews yeah we're going to talk about those four
places in a separate video or videos and you know we went to all of the major tourist sites
in edinburgh and you know garrett probably can remember them all better than i can but
um museums the palace at hollywood house where else did the castle oh yeah edinboro castle
a couple of cathedrals several museums yes yeah botanical gardens which was my favorite
it is not was it is my favorite botanical gardens to date hopefully i'll see another one and you
know we are castle the museum should we just list the places we went to sure that helped you out
yeah that'd be good okay go ahead royal botanical gardens modern art museum two they have two they
have one and two no we went to one we went to one we didn't want to go to two they charged too much
and had some exhibit they just looked really weird for us i don't even like modern art we went to one
for stephanie we went to a cathedral that i do not know the name of it we went to a second cathedral
i do not know the name of it we went to st giles we went to saint giles we went to i just mentioned
earlier the palace of hollywood house and the queen's gallery art exhibit that was there we went
to the castle of course we went to the national ray friars kirk and we saw gray friars bobby
and we went to the national museum of scotland and the national portrait gallery all of those
were awesome yeah and there was another museum we went to it was like the national galleries
because compared to the national museum which is more like a science slash nature
type of deal and one thing we do on we try to do in a lot of our trips
is we try to figure out where the clean uh quick and accessible bathrooms are and they have one
in the national library so if you're on the royal mile and need to duck out to the bathroom can't
find one go to the national library it's really nice yeah we also stopped into the talbot rice
museum which is part of the university of edinboro and that place was a little out there don't go
if you really like far out there art go it was not our cup of tea i it was free though so i
would have rather not wasted those half an hour 20 minutes just no yeah so um we had a lot of
things we liked about edinboro i would say one of them would be that it was clean and we've been to
several major cities in europe and obviously in the united states which is where we're from and
there was very little graffiti and i found that in other cities and even here in memphis tennessee
there's a lot of graffiti and so i actually liked how clean it was there oh yeah it was really nice
the one thing that surprised me although it shouldn't have there were seagulls everywhere
old town edinboro is like only a couple miles from the north sea and i knew that but you don't really
think about it because you're not actually on the coast you're a couple miles inland and you're in a
city and you're in a city oh boy the seagulls know where the food is and they're everywhere yeah yeah
um we found the city to be very walkable which we like because we don't rent cars
for the most part we'll talk about more about driving in scotland in a later video that was
a whole other thing but it was very walkable we didn't use public transportation with the
exception of the train from the airport into town and then we took a trip to saint andrews
via train as a day trip and that's actually next week's video so check that out um but other for
buses and the trains in town it looked like it was easy to use we just never had an opportunity to
use it yeah i think the farthest walk we took was maybe 30 minutes one way but we had no problem
getting around just by walking yeah um we really like the fact that we could speak the language
because we've recently been to spanish-speaking countries and so it was nice to be able to go
into the grocery store and figure out what we were buying understanding like what things cost
and not having to use google translate all the time we could actually read the labels and not buy
tomato sauce and we thought we were getting salsa stuff like that yeah that helps yeah that was nice
and the weather so i would say the weather is a good and a bad i like and a dislike so when it
was sunny out it was gorgeous it was beautiful in the sunshine of course sunday in china a whole lot
i think we had only we had i think maybe two days where it was sunny the whole day
i think we had one day where it was just pouring down rain the whole day most of the days were a
mix it would be partly cloudy partly sunny light rain sunny i mean the weather just cycles through
everything like crazy yeah i if the weather was like overcast for multiple days and you
lived there i could see how it would be very gloomy and you would be like
like not like all peppy um so that was a dislike just bring your raincoat you'll be fine and we
like the fact that there was a lot of things to do all of the things that we just mentioned
and we didn't even do all of the things we didn't see the yacht that was there royal britannia yeah
we didn't go to that we didn't go to the zoo i loved to go to zoos our daughter said no um she's
not as much of a zoo person as i am in the video stephanie will put the names of the cathedrals in
that i can't remember i know where they're on the map i just can't remember the names but we'll put
them in there they were both really nice yeah we walked around the leith the water of leith walkway
that was gorgeous that's actually a little over 12 miles and i wish we would have walked more of
that but there's tons of stuff to do regardless of what you like to do there are things to do
and it's also helpful that we had a good airbnb and i have learned through our travels that
how nice your airbnb is or how acceptable it is to you can really make the difference on
is your stay pleasurable or not we had a trip after this edinboro trip that we did not have a
great airbnb and i will own that because i'm like the main picker of airbnb and we're going to have
a video uh probably in the next couple of months of how we pick airbnbs but that one was a dud
um yeah i will say it wasn't that bad it wasn't a great location um it wasn't horrible it just
was missing a few things that we expected just overlooked but you know for me i don't care if
i'm in a great city and i like it he could live in a cardboard box pretty much so i mean the airbnb
as long as it's safe and it's clean and it's in the right neighborhood i'm good i need a few more
things than that but maintenance amenities right here no i am very low maintenance um anyway our
edinboro airbnb was awesome we had two bedrooms one bath we had plenty of seating we had all of
the things that we looked for it was in a quiet neighborhood which is a plus i'm a light sleeper
and it gave us all enough space that we could spread out because you know if you're with a
20 something year old that hasn't lived with you for four years you get on their nerves
and they get on your nerves so it's good to be able to get apart for a little bit food
yeah they have everything there that you expect italian mexican english irish scottish
a lot of it's fancy bar food a word about the mexican it's not it's not even tex-mex quality
it's i don't know what you would call it but don't go to mexican restaurants when you're in scotland
uh the italian restaurants were fine we went to mexican once
won't do that again but i love fish and chips so i was perfectly happy pretty much everywhere we went
yeah that was good and we did try the haggis it was deep fried haggis and we all liked it
it was really good so we liked that we've had um the beers were good we like the beers yeah
they don't sell beer after 10 o'clock in the stores we decided one night we were in a bar
and we thought well we'll just go home and on the way stop the grocery store get a couple of beers
yeah no we got the grocery store at five after ten the beer aisle was closed off and we stood there
like idiots just kind of staring at the beer on the other side of the barricade until the
manager came up and said you know you're five minutes late and we were just like you've got
to be kidding me but anyway live and learn yeah we learned we always got to the store before 10
o'clock if we wanted beer at home and so i guess the next big question is would we go back we would
but there's some other places to go there are i don't know we're planning on traveling for
10 years minimum minimum um you know would we go back maybe i'm going to say maybe more than him
just because it's not in the schengen zone and so for those of you not familiar you can go to
eu countries and stay there for 90 days out of every 180 days and then you have to leave
so scotland is not part of that so we may use go to scotland maybe not edinboro but other parts of
scotland to stay in europe to help reduce our travel costs and to leave the schengen zone
that's a possibility but you just got to realize that outside of the major cities in edinburgh
or southern glasgow you're mostly going to be doing outdoor activities a lot of hiking
a lot of golf i don't think a lot of walking you know shorelines what have you so it's very much
an outdoor place i mean i'd love to go back but i'm not sure we're gonna pack our hiking boots
poles and all that stuff but if we do it'd be a great place to go yeah so definitely go if you
haven't been it's worth a trip and i guess that wraps up uh the video so if you haven't checked
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