May the Force be with you Gandalf! (Click bait (For walking tour day))

Well.................
Today I went on a walking tour... THAT WAS FREE :) (not really, you tip the guy at the end).
This is how it works.
1. You see the sign a few days before and are like. "Bro I wanna do that"
2. You show up at the time it is said to start.
3. Tour guide makes joke about tipping like "If you like it you'll tip me, if you don't like it you tip me anyways".
4. You walk pretty fast depending who you are with. So if you need to walk slowly I don't suggest it (I don't know about paid ones, I've only been on free ones).
5. You probably laugh because free guides try to be really good.
6. You are happy and you tip them.
6.5 If you aren't happy you can leave before it ends.

And that is how we did our tour. But first let's start with my day.

First I got up and got dressed and started my morning like all my others with a breakfast consisting of granola, coconut low fat yogurt, and one holy banana. I rediscovered this, (here in Edinburgh) because we walked down the aisle of a grocery store and I was thinking... What can I get for breakfast (It's harder for me because I'm not really supposed to eat wheat)? There it was, granola, in all its beauty the golden granola. And now that's how all my days start.

Afterwards I got the bus with my mom, we buy the all day ticket, because it costs the equivalent to two and a half bus tickets. So then you can do what ever you want, like if you see something interesting you can just jump off and then jump back on without buying another ticket. It also saves you the trouble of making sure you have exact change for both rides, because for one adult ticket and one child ticket it is an exact six pounds, making it very simple.

The bus ride lasts about thirty to forty minutes. On it we pass a college that looks like Buckingham Palace before its cup of coffee. It really is quite beautiful, after we pass that we pass a graveyard that has an ankh cross. Not something you would expect in a Christian country, but cool. It goes through New town but if you take for another couple of stops it goes to Old town. For those who don't know Edinburgh the historical part is separated into two different sections. 


Old town (people have lived there for 1 500 years but most of the remaining buildings are from the 1500s)




and New town (built by the rich to get away from the dirty city, it was built in one go in the 1800 hundreds). 



We got off by the National Museum of Scotland. We peeked into the National Library that had an exhibition of maps that had a quiz that no matter what it would give you 5 out of 5. If only I could do that in tests.

We then proceeded to the National Museum of Scotland there we walked around for a bit not really seeing anything new because we've been there before and we didn't have time to look for long. At that time it was 12:30 and our tour was at one and we hadn't eaten yet so we went to a burrito place that I discovered the day before. This burrito joint ain't the normal place, it a place that has risen from the ashes a place sent by the god(s), some even say the god Burrito Bob works there, some say that a burrito from their will give you the power of the gods, others say that you shouldn't eat there because burritos make you fart... But those people are fools! I HAD A CHICKEN burrito with beans, rice, onions, guac, sour cream, and some onions veggie stuff that tastes good, and of course CHEEEESSSEE (Epic music in the background)!

After getting the power of the burrito (arguably the best food in the world) we continued to the place where we would meet our tour guide, dun dun daaaa!

We arrived several minutes early so my mom got a coffee and I got a San Pellegrino. Then the tour guide was there although we waited a few minutes to see if anyone was a little late, (although my mom and me have a conspiracy that he was waiting for the red bull he was drinking to kick in)

 After a sufficient amount of time we started, there were about 15 people and we all huddled close. He talked about how random Edinburgh by gathering us around a statue, he then told us that the statue was of a man that never even came to Edinburgh, the only reason he was there was because they wanted to have a statue there.

The random statue. A.K.A. Alexander the Great.

He also told us that they have a park that celebrates 1000 years of Christianity in the Ukraine. I really liked this because you immediately got that the tour guide was funny, and also you knew what you were heading into.

Our next stop was to talk about why the unicorn was Scotland’s National animal. He told us that it was chosen when it was commonly believed it existed, the decided that it was a good animal because you can’t catch a Unicorn, making a kind of silent saying to the English (the two were constantly fighting) “You can never subdue and you can never beat us”... "AND FOR FREEDOM" (Brave heart)!

The next place we stopped at was a grave of the founding preacher of the Church of Scotland. This preacher said he always wanted to be close to his church so when people wanted to make a parking lot they moved every body except for him, instead they just built over him, so now you can go visit him at parking spot number 23. We then proceeded to the biggest shrine to an author in the world. Edinburgh where they have tons of authors and all those type of dudes, the worst part is, is that the guy didn’t even do proper stories… HE WROTE POEMS! They made a massive 5 stories or so tower for guy who used to write poems. 

Shrine dedicated to Sir Walter Scot... the poet.

Imagine what they are going to do for J. K. Rowling.

A Few years later...
We now release the Death Star 2.0 in respect for are dear author J. K. Rowling! (cheering) 

We then walked to the grave where a dog stayed by his master even after death. Back in the day this happened all policemen were required to have a dog, which they would have to pay for. Most police men got big scary dogs, but not this one, he chose a small loyal dog named Grayfrier, Unfortunately after 2 years the police man died, but each night the dog returned to his grave and slept there, no mater what type of weather it was. At one point people started to talk about who should keep care of the dog, but it was decided that they would just feed him, and let him do his own thing. After 15 years of loyalty the dog now rests at the head of the graveyard where people leave things for him.

This is a statue dedicated to him.

The same graveyard has many gravestones that inspired J. K. Rowling, such as McGonagall, another one that I don’t remember, and TOM RIDDLE, all real people. She discovered these while she walked her two year old child (a graveyard is totally the place you would take a child… Right?).

Grave stone of Tom Riddle, and his family (this is the gravestone of the real man).

Then it was the end of a very funny tour, but just before he told us that J. K. went to the cafés Black Medicine (which is a very nice place), and Elephant Garden (not so nice). Anyways that was the majority of my day except doing this blog, and showing a French guy from the alps where he could get a good meal and a nice cup of wine for not to much. Food is important to them you know.

On that note let me give you my tour guides favourite quote from Harry Potter

“May the Force be with you Gandalf”!

Have a great day!