What happened here?
Our Scottish guide seemed a bit embarassed to point out this building just across the street from Holyrood. It is the recently completed Scottish Parliament building designed by Catalan architect Enrico Miralles. It looks like the construction crew forgot to clean up the left over rebar when they finished up the building. After laughing at that monstrosity we walked into the Holyrood Palace gift shop where one could buy pens, paper, mugs, cups, books and almsot anything else with the Queen's picture on it. They also sold a number of teas, coffees and candies given H.R.H.'s Royal Seal of Approval. The most interesting thing I saw was the memorabilia featuring the picture of Princess Di.
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