I forgot to mention few funny little things about Edinburgh yesterday, but I cannot leave it like that!

The first thing you see when you arrive to Edinburgh Haymarket is the Scottish Gaelic name of the station: Margadh an Fheòir. This is a little warning that Scottish people are independent and will not be oppressed by the English.

Then, you learn a lot about Walter Scott. Everywhere you go, you learn the opinions of Sir Walter Scott. Anything that is shown or presented to you, there is also a small inscription about what Walter Scott thought about it.

Edinburgh Waverley - the main train station - is named after a novel. Guess who was the author! :-)

There are bagpipe players in the streets, and there are people in kilts. They have knives in their socks. They were kilts for every possible occasion. If you are male and want to dress formally in Scotland, you wear a white shirt, a jacket (a bit shorter than an ordinary suit jacket) and kilt. With formal shoes of course. If you are male and work for the castle, you wear a kilt and windstopper (and hiking shoes because there are rocks everywhere). And so on.

If you go into an ordinary shop (like Tesco or Sainsbury's), you can tell  that you are in Scotland, because they have huge shelves dedicated to Scottish stuff. Everything from milk to chocolate, from beer to meat, from potatoes to tomatoes. Everything is available in Scottish version (OK, maybe not tomatoes).

Scottish flags are everywhere and on everything. Tartan patterns as well.

Some shops offer deep fried Mars bar. I will say no more. (I have not gathered enough courage to try it, yet.)