Beautiful Edinburgh........

.....thought you might enjoy a few atmospheric photos of my recent trip to Edinburgh, starting with the fabulous castle looming out of the fog high above the city.........

the beautiful Gothic architecture is a feature of the city.....

.....the castle was built on an extinct volcano making it both impressive and almost impossible to besiege....

...it overshadows everything in this city of tall, thin buildings...

...and here is the story of 'Greyfriars Bobby' the Skye Terrier who kept a vigil at his master's grave...

...immortalised in a statue outside the pub bearing his name...and also, I believe, by a certain Mr W. Disney.....

Greyfriars Kirkyard (Churchyard) is a wonderful collection of monuments and mausoleums (mausolea?) remembering the great and good of Edinburgh society, with stories of those lost at sea, victims of disease or lost in infancy. It also contains 'mortsafes' which are iron enclosures where coffins could be stored until decomposition had set in and rendered the bodies useless to grave robbers who would sell fresh corpses to anatomists for dissection!

Finally, where would we be without a bit of 'vintage'?

Here is a beautiful medieval door that I couldn't resist...

thanks for joining me on my trip to Edinburgh....see you soon!