Edinburgh slept on, as it had slept on for hundreds of years. There were ghosts in the cobbled alleys and on the twisting stairways of the Old Town tenements, but they were Enlightenment ghosts, articulate and deferential.
― Ian Rankin, Knots and Crosses mystery

Another Hop On/Hop Off kind of day …

The (Sir Walter) Scott’s monument

Edinburgh Castle

Joyous spring Sunday at St Andrew’s Square

The Scottish National Museum (more on this fantastic collection later)

The very new and surreal Scottish Parliament building