Though Marc is still limited by his school schedule, we are making the most of our time over the pond by taking nice day trips around the area. We went to the surgeons museum one day (Edinburgh is one of the major roots of medicine, the war exhibits from WWI and WWII were especially haunting). And recently we have found a BBC resource that provides audiotours of towns around scotland. We went to Dunfermline yesterday, which has an old and new abbey. Notably, Robert the Bruce rests underneath the alter in the new church, and St. Margaret is buried there. Macbeth's killer also took residence in the area, and had a large lookout tower which is now reduced to rubble. Andrew Carnegie, the steel tycoon was born in Dunfermline, and as a child he loved to look into gardens that were reserved for the wealthy. He later came back and bought the gardens, creating a massive public park for everyone to enjoy. And we ended the trip with a potent cider at the creepy wee pub, which is a fun little hole in the wall.
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