Getting back to our tour.....one story I forgot to mention was about the old days in downtown Edinburgh. And back before they had plumbing, people made use of buckets for toilets and as they had no way to dispose of the full buckets, they would dump them out the windows, yelling "Garde loo"....French for watch the water. lol Now the funniest part of this, is that the men used to stand close to the curb of the street, while they were waiting for a coach or a friend, or whatever, to protect the women from getting soiled as they waited standing close to the building. What chivalry, huh?? :) Kirk yelled out to our driver that things hadn't changed much, but I'm not so sure I think they're quite that chilvarous anymore, at least that I
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