Some very giggle Japanese tourist girls offered to take my picture, and here’s the end result. Yes, my eyes are fully shut. I still think it’s a pretty good picture, though.

Snookums mans a turret. (I have to give him major thanks for his patience in allowing me to use him as a model in most of my pictures. He’s photogenic, and I’m not. And, as he himself pointed out, he doesn’t have much choice. *grin*)

Here’s a view down the Royal Mile towards Holyrood House, which was our next destination.

And here it is! We did the tour, where you get to wander through some of the more interesting state rooms. We saw Mary Queen of Scots’s bed chamber, as well as lots of her personal items. I also liked the throne room and the royal dining room.

Unfortunately Holyrood Abbey’s ornate stone roof collapsed and the church is now a ruin. I still think it was incredibly beautiful.

With only a few hours to kill until our flight home, Snookums and I decided to stop in the Princes Street Gardens once more and simply enjoy the fresh air. Needless to say, within fifteen minutes he was out like a light. *grin*

That’s it! We flew back to London that night and arrived home tired and ready for a boring week at work. The travel bug has, I think, been exorcised. Well, for a while anyway.

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