Scotland Day 7

The forecast for today was rain (In Scotland? ...imagine that), so it was a good opportunity to do some indoor activities. We decided to start the morning off at the National Museum of Scotland. The museum is huge and very impressive (7 stories and free of charge). You could probably spend the whole day there if you had the time.

The roof of the museum also gives you some great views of Edinburgh:

After the museum, we grabbed some lunch and checked out a few other places, like the Greyfriars Church. We also stopped in at a huge 7 story department store, Jenners. They had a gourmet food section, which had food displays representing different parts of the world. We found the "Americatessen" section to be quite comical:

In the late afternoon, we decided to do our own self-guided pub crawl. Kim had already planned a route, marking our map with POI (Pubs of Interest). I think we ended up visiting 5 or 6 pubs, getting to sample a variety of scotch and beer.



We had dinner at a French restaurant near our hotel, Cafe Rouge, which I thought had outstanding food (though the lingering affects from the pub crawl may have played a part in my glowing review).