Linlithgow Palace

Out of all the cool ancient places I have been to in the general Edinburgh area Linlithgow Palace is perhaps the most structurely interesting. It was built with a thatched roof making thick walls unneeded and maked it possible for large open spaces. Along with its large open spaces the palace also has very well preserved stone works and a truly awesome net work of connecting rooms, passages and dungans.
The palace had been used by Scottish royalty and Scottish parliment for several hundred years up untill less then ninty years ago when parliment held a most or less symbalic open air meeting in the now roofless old great hall. But when the Great hall was being more heavly used back in the day there was three kichtens that supported it for meals. One of the kitchens had a walk in oven with a stair case inside of it leading to a room with a passage to one of the other kitchens.
The palace has a jail beneath the front enterance which is a stairless, ladderless pit complete with no light source and whos enterance is inside the guards gateroom. Also a wine cellar with 18 foot vaulted roof with 10 to 6 foot thick solid stone walls and back in the day it had a vault door with the newest locks of the time. So the wine cellar ended up being more protected then the jail.
This is the same castle/ palace that was on the banks of the pond I sailed on with the University club. Linlithgow is also the home of one of the only supermarket where I could find fresh cranberries, its a nice thing to know.

I suggest going to this palace, its wicked cool, less expensive the many other sites and the town of Linithgow is a very nice little place with many little shops and bars.

Pictures from Edinburgh

When ever it is a nice day in Edinburgh (not raining) I try to go out and do things in the city. Mostly walk around try to get lost, look for interesting building's roofs in the distance and find them on the street. When I do this I always bring my camra and cell phone that has more mega pixels then my actual camra with me due to Edinburgh being a extremly beautiful city and with the compliment of sun light is even more so. Being from the New England area I am used to being around lots of trees, plants and not huge massive building like I am hear. So on the weekends/ time I have off/ sunny days I go and try to find areas in the city with trees, plants and smaller buildings mostly to keep what sainity I have left safe. But even with these excersions around the city a few times a day I find my self standing at a crosswalk waiting for the walk sign to change and staring marveling at the northern sky. Its really something else, well same as normal sky just farther north. When look back down after having  these moments of looking up at the sky at these intersections theres normally anywhere from one to six people also looking up to see what I'm staring at whom are so consumed looking for the object in the sky I have spotted that they completly forget that they want to cross the street.
Well here are some photos as prevously described;

There is alot of city and there will most likely be more of these picture posts.