Aaah, Edinburgh! Castles, palaces, gothic architecture, tacky tourist shops. What more could you want in a day trip? We left Stirling via train at 9:30, after the "rush hour." It's not quite an hour long trip to Waverly station, and it goes quite fast. Our first stop was Holyrood Palace, about a twenty minute walk from the station, past the Robert Burns memorial and Scottish Parliament. Seeing the palace was actually quite exciting for a variety of reasons, but mostly because I took a class on Queen Elizabeth I last semester at KU and ended up writing my final paper on Mary Queen of Scots and her tumultuous relationship with her second husband, Lord Darnley. Holyroodpalace was Mary's primary residence while she was queen (I believe), and the scene of the violent murder of her secretary,
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