We started early today. We had to get up at 7.00 a.m. and had breakfast with my parents as my Dad was so nice to drive us to the airport afterwards.
We‘d booked our flight with Ryan Air and I should mention some points regarding that airline. Ryan Air is cheap if you only travel with hand luggage. We had booked a onboard luggage as well (additional 30 Euros) for 15 kg and I can say that every kg more will cost additional money. They are really strict as this is probably the way they make their money. On our flight to Edinburgh there was some bowling group on board which made sleeping during the flight absolutely impossible.
When we arrived in Edinburgh we directly went to the Tourist Info in the airport. There we got a bus ticket into town (6 Pounds – inclusive return) and a map of the city. We‘d already decided that we‘d like to do a one day trip into the Highlands and we booked this for Sunday as well.
Afterwards the bus got us downtown which was a 30 min trip and we ended up at Waverly Station. From here we decided to walk to our guest house. Waverly Station / Bridge seems to be the lowest point in the whole city so that our way was up the hill and we already got a glimpse of the Royal Mile and the area around it (lot of coffee shops here). We had to walk about 30 min until we finally reached Southside Guest House. I had already advised the owners that we would be there around 2.p.m and when we arrived there the lady opening the door told us that the room wasn‘t ready (we expected this as normal check in would be around 3 p.m.) but we could leave our luggage there and head off for something to eat. We ended up at „The Steamie Pub“ ( Newington Road 72 – 74)for our first pear cider and burgers which were absolutely delicious and we spent about an hour there before we returned to the guest house to have a look at our room.
Southside Guest House was a great choice. The whole house is quite old and all room are set up in a different style. Ours was at the second floor and was mostly in purple colours with a huge bathroom. We changed clothes there and went of for the city. We mainly walked through the ancient part of the town that evening and finally got rewarded with a beautiful view of Carlton Hill with it‘s Monument and a double rainbow above. Absolutely perfect end of day one.