Kelly and I started the morning jogging the gardens
across from Edinburgh Castle. Although
there was a chill in the air we quickly warmed up with our jog. It was a circular path that wound through the
different areas of the garden and it wasn’t that big to circle the whole thing
only took about 15 minutes.
On both sides were stairs as the garden was a good 20 to
25 feet below street level. We ran the
stairs then the stretch that separated them and up the other stairs. This made my lungs burn although I suspect it
was the cold air that was the real cause.
After about 45 minutes of non-stop exercise we headed
back to the hotel to get ready for the day.
An hour later we sat down to breakfast in “old town” Edinburgh just off
the royal mile. From there it was just
a jaunt up the Royal Mile to Edinburgh
Castle.
It’s a beautiful mid-evil castle that boasts that it has
never been taken by siege. It as fallen
from trickery a couple of times but any army that attack is would be facing
cliff walls 100 feet or so straight up.
After a complete tour of the castle, we made our way back down the Royal
Mile for lunch before heading on to the royal palace at the other end of the
Royal Mile. We completely toured it.
There was more shopping, rain, shopping, rain and so on
until time for dinner. After all that
it was easily over a mile walk back to our hotel.
What did all this walking add up to? According to my FitBit I covered 10.86 miles
and burned 3917 calories of the course of the day. In addition I climbed 73 floor of stairs,
that doesn’t surprise me in the least.
Everywhere we went had stairs.
This is well representative of what we typically do on
vacation. We walk everywhere because it
is the best way to see and experience a city.
Sometimes you find things that you didn’t even know you were looking
for.
Daily Recap:
Matt and Kelly: Walked over 20 miles combined and climbed
over 150 floors
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