Day 4 - Edinburgh

It was a very slow start today. The flights and non-stop nature of the last few days has taken its toll. We rose late (although you wouldn’t know it by the light… it’s gloomy most of the time here, even at 1pm) and walked through the city to get our bearings and see what was going on. Cute little Christmas market at the foot of Castle hill, busy shops and a nice medieval-feeling set of streets winding up to the castle where we got brunch. We did find a brilliant souvenir shop, which was also a tartan-making factory, and with some difficulty a supermarket. It seems the supermarket we found is the budget one, as we managed to eat a very large meal each tonight for around £5. This is a good sign for the weeks ahead, and means we should be able to stay within budget most of the time. The backpackers we’re in has a very well set up kitchen (except there were no forks!) and our room is about three times the size of the one in HK. Not sure what the plan is for tomorrow, so I guess we’ll just wing it.