Royal Highland Show

The arrival in Edinburgh yesterday was right according to plan.  Found the building with the apartment and Rhonda arrived moments later.  We are staying downtown on the third floor of a building on a pedestrian only street.  It is filled with pubs and other shops and the noise of glass bottles clinking together in recycling went on late into the night.  We have two bedrooms, a nice living room, bathroom and an eat-in kitchen with stove, microwave, frig.  All the comforts of home under the roof of this building with skylights that open for ventilation.  It is furnished with lots of old silver plate decorative stuff.  Quite a nice spot.

This weekend is the Royal Highland Show -- the biggest agriculture show in Scotland.  And the display of farm machinery is larger than I have ever seen anywhere.  Big machines, little machines, everything from cattle hauling trailers to the latest little robot grass mower from John Deere.  However, in the homecraft division of sewing, knitting, quilting, our little Rockton fair has it beat hands down.  I don't know if people here are doing less or if it is too difficult for people to bring in entries for judging. There was no lack of shopping under tents or in some of the buildings and bargains to be had!  And, I tried haggis, neeps and tatties for lunch -- not bad.

The very convenient bus system took us out to the show and returned us about 8 hours later (buses running from downtown here every 10 minutes).  We were quite tired and after picking up a few dinner items, climbed back to our apartment and are making an early evening.