Scotland!

We begin our Scotland journey in Edinburgh. Our hotel room has a balcony with a view of Edinburgh Castle on the hill above us and we can see they're already building the viewing stands for the Tattoo in August. We happened to arrive on the day that the European Football league held the Scottish Cup championship game, the two teams playing were both from the Edinburgh area so the city streets were fairly empty because a lot of fans went to Glasgow to watch the match. There was also a football game between Bayern(Munich) and Chelsea the same afternoon, so there were a lot of people watching that game as well. Chelsea won their match and the Hearts of Midlothian won theirs too, so there were a lot of happy fans celebrating around the city. I was expecting something like the crazy behavior we see in the US when a team wins a big championship, but the noise in our area actually wasn't bad after about 11, so we had a good night's sleep.