Plan of holiday for me and my friends: Visit Edinburgh

Edinburgh is a city with two towns. Besides the castle is the narrow closes, winding streets and tall tenements of the Old Town, while opposite are the elegant classical squares, broad streets and peaceful gardens of the Georgian New Town.

My friends and I are going to visit Edinburgh in August, when performing the most important festivals in the world, such as The International Festival, Military Tattoo, Fringe Festival or Book Festival. We will be six days.

The flight will arrive on a Sunday night, and we've hired the bus will pick us up at the airport and take us to the centre of the city, where will be our hotel.

First Day:

The first day, we will tour the old town on the Royal Mile. We start from the esplanade of the castle (this area is called Casttlehill), where we see the ‘’witches fountain’’, Scotch Whisky Experience, the outlook tower (camera obscura) and finally the church where is The Hub.

Royal Mile

Then we go into Lawnmarket, will see the Lady Stair's Close, Writer Museum and one of the most famous pubs in the city, Deacon Brodie's. In this area of the Royal Mile, we can see a great variety of typical shops (souvenirs…).

Later, we will go to High Street where they usually hold the majority of street artists promoting their performances at the Fringe Festival. Besides, will go to St. Giles Cathedral, the Square and the Parliament House. Also see the City Chambers and below the Childhood Museum and John Knox House.

In this moment we will eat at any restaurant of which are located in this area.

After lunch, continue along the Royal Mile, now Canongate. We will see the Canongate Toolbath, The People's Story, the church Canongate Kirk, Edinburgh museum and one of the most beautiful gardens in the city, Dunbar's Close.

Finally, walk the last part of the Royal Mile, Holyrood. We will enter to the Scottish parliament. To end the day, we will go to Holyrood Palace (official residence of the Scottish and British monarchs from the sixteenth century) which is opposite the Parliament. Is a wonderful place and nice.

Second Day:

Morning we will climb to Arthur's Seat.

Then, will eat in restaurants of Holyrood and in the afternoon we will walk through Holyrood Park to reach Cowgate and Grassmarket, lively area in which there are bars, restaurants ... we will dine here and take something.

Third day:

Morning, visit the National Museum of Scotland. After, go to Elephant House, where J.K. Rowling wrote Harry Potter novel. We will eat in the area.

Afternoon, we will go to the National Library of Scotland, the Greyfiars cemetery (cemetery with the highest degree postelgeit the world). We will go at school John Heriot and the Old College.

Finally we will go to area college, where the Meadows, that are public areas for practice various sports or walk for them.

By the night, we will go to Military Tattoo in the Esplanade of Casttle. We will enjoy the best show in the world of bagpipes and Scottish culture.

Military Tattoo

Fourth day:

This day we will visit the New Town. Firstly, walk around the Princes Street, where we see the Walter Scott Monument, stores Jenners, the National Gallery of Scotland and the mound. Secondly, we will go shopping, to buy souvenirs or other things.

Princes Street

We will lunch in the Princes Street Gardens. Food shopping at one of the stores there in this part of the city.

After lunch, walk around the park enjoying the beautiful gardens to reach the west end of the park where we will see the Caledonian, one of the largest hotels in Edinburgh.

 We will dinner for any bar or restaurant on Princes Street.

Fifth day:

In the morning, we will visit Carlton Hill, a hill with several monuments as Observatory House, National Monument and Nelson Monument. From this hill there are stunning views of the entire city and the Firth of Forth.

Views from Carlton Hill

We will lunch in St. James Centre, next to the square of Picardy, with great atmosphere throughout the day.

Then, we will go into Princes Street where we see the Balmoral, one of the largest hotels, and the General Register House. We will walk the streets parallel to Princes Street, George Street and Queen Street. We will be able to see the Charlotte Square and many shops, restaurants ... Moreover, these streets are wide variety of high quality shops.

By the night, we will go to see the Mary King's Close, some passages where actors tell us ghost stories and their passages.

Sixth day:

In the morning, we will visit the castle and we will be able to see the best views of the New Town.

Later, we will go to the airport to return to Spain.

I hope we can all enjoy this wonderful and unique European city and we will always remember this incredible experience.