{"id":667,"date":"2016-05-29T20:23:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=667"},"modified":"2016-05-29T20:56:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T20:56:30","slug":"edinburgh-day-2-edinburgh-castle-and-mary-kings-close","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/?p=667","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh Day 2 – Edinburgh Castle and Mary Kings Close"},"content":{"rendered":"

The day started with a tour of The Real Mary King’s close. \u00a0We weren’t allowed to take pictures during the tour. \u00a0We learned that the close is now underground because The Royal Exchange wanted to build a new building and no longer wanted the Close so they knocked down about 4 or 5 of the 7 stories of the close and built the new government building on top of it. \u00a0The close is basically built into the foundation of the government building. \u00a0Most all of the close is still intact and parts of it have metal jacks in place to hold up the original ceiling. \u00a0Mary King was a prominent business woman in the 1630’s. \u00a0Most of the residents eventually ended up dying from the plague and their possessions were burned.<\/p>\n

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After visiting the Close we walked up to the Castle. \u00a0 I think mom believes I’m trying to get rid of her with all the walking. \u00a0LOL….I’m not and my feet hurt just as bad as hers did when we were finished.<\/p>\n

We went through most all of the castle. \u00a0 She wasn’t interested in seeing the dungeon so we skipped that this time. \u00a0 I’ve seen it so it was no it deal for me. \u00a0We did see the Crown Jewels though we weren’t allowed to take pictures. \u00a0I did learn that the crown weighs 3lbs, the septet also weighs 3lbs and the sword weighs 6 lbs.<\/p>\n

We walked through the Royal apartments next. \u00a0We were allowed pictures here just not with flash in all the rooms.<\/p>\n

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Also got to see the Great Hall. \u00a0I rather enjoyed the Great Hall. \u00a0The walls were lined with weapons of all kinds, there was a claymore on display and they had keys for the Monarchs that ruled. And per the usual you could almost stand in the fireplace.<\/p>\n

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Our feet gave out about 5pm so we headed out of the castle and started back down the Royal Mile and back to the train.<\/p>\n

Of course along the way we had to stop in to a couple of shops and mom cleaned up. \u00a0She bought herself 2 wraps and a scarf. \u00a0I ended up with a sweater.<\/p>\n

We got back to the hotel and had us some dinner. \u00a0Now bear with me because I’ve never been good about taking pictures of my food but I’ll get better. \u00a0 I had an open chicken pot pie and holy cow was it good. \u00a0So far we haven’t had a bad meal here at the hotel.<\/p>\n

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The day started with a tour of The Real Mary King’s close. \u00a0We weren’t allowed to take pictures during the tour. \u00a0We learned that the close is now underground because The Royal Exchange wanted to build a new building and no longer wanted the Close so they knocked down about 4 or 5 of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scotland-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hollenbeck.ws\/travel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}