City of Edinburgh Council
This was the first stop of our long tour. At about this time it started to look like we were walking into a major blizzard. The temperature dropped and even I was freezing. Kate however did the entire tour in an unzipped light jacket. This courtyard is in front of what is essentially city hall. Apparently there wasn't too much of interest here but it gave our guide a chance to give us a brief capsule history of the first 10,000 years of Scottish history and why they still hate the English.
Great Britain, the dominant industrial and maritime power of the 19th century, played a leading role in developing parliamentary democracy and in advancing literature and science. At its zenith, the British Empire stretched over one-fourth of the ear... ... read more 
