Oh my. I don’t know that I’ll say much more than this — if you have any way to get to Edinburgh, do it. Of all the places we’ve been on this very fine cruise, it was the best. Not that Greenock and Dublin and Belfast and London weren’t wonderful, but Edinburgh seemed to bring together the best of all of them. It had the charm of a small village, the grandeur of an Old World European capital and the fast-paced excitement of a modern city.

For instance, what else do you need to say about a city that is divided into Old Town and New Town, with the New Town dating from the 1700’s? Or one that has an enormous Gothic-looking structure (the tallest thing at left in this picture) that is a monument to Sir Walter Scott? As with Dublin and Belfast, I eventually stopped using the camera so much, because I would’ve needed the special kind that shows you a 360-degree view. Our friends might have made out better with their video camera.

So I won’t add anything else. From here we have another day at sea, then two days in London, then two days in Paris. But Greg and I already made a sort of pact that we would plan some future trip when we just concentrated on Edinburgh. We could easily have done the whole two weeks there and I wouldn’t have felt like we’d missed out on anything that Great Britain had to offer.