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Today we went to see the Edinburgh Castle. The castle was nice, but eather smaller, too, what we had expected. The Scottish crown jewels are there, so maybe that's the reason for the relatively expensive entrance fee(14£!). But gotta say that they weren't worth it, and neither they weren't worth their stupud display: narrow, low and way too long corridor going like a snake along the tower. Along the corridor there was just very poor quality painting about the stages of the crown of Scotland, accompanied by scenes of dolls about coronations of different kings, etc. Very poor air there and way too much people in the corridor. Just plain stupid solution. Just put the jewels in one room and all the other stuff in another, I'd say. The castle itself was nice and the views from the top were awesome! And from the wall on the new side of the town you can see a small graveyard of dogs(!) on a bit lower level. :)
At the evening we went to the Double Dead Tour by City of the Dead. Tour went to the Vaults of the South Bridge and the Covenanters' Prison& to see the world famous MacKenzie poltergeist on the Kirkfriars' Graveyard. Our tour guide was a short haired woman about over 40ies, who was a good guide, told the stories with enthusiam and with good acting, so she was very entertaining! :D Was interesting to hear a bit about the histories of those places as well as the ghost stories told about them. The vaults were very dark, damp places, with an atmosphere not for the claustrophobic or the faint hearted. ;) I didn't feel any "presences" and/or saw any ghosts, which was a bit disappointing, since there should be many. ;) But it still would've been interesting to see a bit more of the vaults, but we had to move on to the graveyard. Graveyard was really beautiful, old headstones standing in the relatively small, but old churchyard, and according to our guide, over 400 000 bodies have been buried there over the centuries(!). The Black Mausoleum itself was a small stone chamber behind a locked gate on the far corner of the graveyard, at the Covenanters' Prison. Guide had had created a good "atmosphere" among the group members by then, and when we stood in the mausoleum, hearing stories about what injuries and what kind of attacks the poltergeist had done for some former visitors, a "spooky man" from the tour company suddenly jumped in the vault :D Even though I had read about that, even me got scared a bit of the sudden jump of him ;D It was fun, though. But with more seriously, nothing happened to anyone (which maybe was a bit disappointing, too), but I did had a quite "strange &uneasy feeling" inside the mausoleum and I felt a weird, little "tingling" kind of sensation on my right cheek. When we left, we took cuopla pics from inside the tomb, but saw nothing. Even though our guide had told that one visitor, who had left there for a moment alone to took a picture, had seen all of a sudden a rock flying across the tomb from one side to another and had been so scared, that had just ran away very quickly. ;) But even though we still didn't saw any ghosts, it was a fun tour! Though - afterwards, when we were at the World's End to have our last pints in Edinburgh this time with our moms& were looking at the pics what we had taken from the tour, I did notice something quite weird in one picture, which was taken from the inside of the
Mausoleum: it looked like that there were _something...like a faint skull hanging in the air, attached to something which looked like shoulders(!). But no legs, etc. AND on the next picture, taken coupla seconds after the first one at the exact same spot, the was nothing. :-O That was a bit spooky, I gotta say! =) So..maybe we had a glimpse of a true spirit after all, or smth, or then it was some glimpse of light which hit the cameras' lense on a wrong angle from somewhere, but the picture IS a bit spooky, anyway. And yes, I will post it to here, as soon as I can, so you can look it yourself, too! & make your own mind. ;) The pic is in our camera, not in phone, so I'll be able to do it when we're home.
All in all, we had a very nice visit to Edinburgh, and on this last night we bought cool t-shirts from The World's End. =) ...And who knows, maybe Dream&Hob Gadling we there, sitting with us, even though we didn't know... ;))
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