Day: May 9, 2026

Edinburgh day 3

On Friday morning we walked to the National Museum of Scotland. The lobby of our hotel is on the 5th floor. If you go down to the ground floor you can exit into Waverly train station. So this morning we did that, then cut through the train station to our breakfast spot.

After breakfast we went up the Scotsman Steps (104 steps) from the new town to the old town. Each step is made of a different kind of marble.

The Scotsman Steps up to the old town and the Royal mile.

The National Museum of Scotland is located just over half a mile south of our hotel. It has lots of very interesting displays. It had everything from fossils to airplanes to Scottish history.

The lobby of the museum
Inside the giant animals room
The Tay bridge collapse in 1880 influenced the design and strength of the first Forth Bridge
A very interesting display about the two bridges.

We had an early dinner not far from the Traverse Theatre where we have been going to TradFest concerts.

We had the best steak of the trip at a restaurant called Wildfire
Wildfire Restaurant

We had an hour to kill before our concert.

We walked through St Cuthbert’s kirkyard cemetery. That’s Edinburgh castle looking down on us.

The concert we went to was my absolute favorite of the three we have been to. These four women were funny and just so so good! The group’s name is Rant.

The fiddling group RANT.

As we walked back to the hotel after the concert I heard a women asking incredulously if the weather is always so cold here. The guy she was with said unhesitatingly Yes! We are very far north!

Saturday we will start our trip home. I really like Edinburgh.