A wander round a palace...

Playlist

Klangforum Wien - Der Erste Bank Kompositionsauftrag 2002-2007

Sly & the Family Stone - Stand!

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery (Remaster)

Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green

Genesis - Nursery Cryme

Jefferson Airplane - Bark

Black Widow - Sacrifice

Three Dog Night - Naturally

Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same

David Bowie - Pin Ups

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Sparks - Sparks

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido

Kiss - Alive

Manfred Mann's Earth Band - The Roaring Silence

T Rex - Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow

Carole King - Tapestry

Slade - Sladest

Alice Cooper - Easy Action

Family - Bandstand

Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox

Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie

The Doors - 13

Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - We're Only in It for the Money

Simon & Garfunkel - Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

Black Sabbath - Vol.4

Yes - The Yes Album

The Doors - The Doors

Bryan Ferry - These Foolish Things

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water

Strawbs - Ghosts

Curved Air - Air Conditioning

Gentle Giant - Free Hand

Soft Machine - Bundles

Grand Funk Railroad - Live Album

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies

Golden Earring - Flashback (Blue Compilation)

Golden Earring - Eight Miles High

Sparks - Indiscreet

Nazareth - Nazareth's Greatest Hits

The Tubes - Now

Steve Howe - Beginnings

Omega - Omega 5

Quintessence - In Blissful Company

Genesis - Seconds Out

Cat Stevens - easer And The Firecat

Doctors of Madness - Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms

The Osmonds - The Plan

Yes - Yes

Black Widow - Black Widow III

The Beach Boys - The Beach Boys 20 Golden Greats

The Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance

Mott The Hoople - All The Young Dudes

Udo Lindenberg - Livehaftig

Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin' On

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Love's A Prima Donna

Genesis - Wind and Wuthering

Various - The Warner Bros Music Show

Brian Eno - Music For Films

Wizzard - Introducing Eddy and the Falcons

The Rezillos - Can't Stand the Rezillos

John Lennon - Walls And Bridges

Uriah Heep - Magician's Birthday

Jon Anderson - Olias Of Sunhillow

Queen - A Night At The Opera

Bad Company - Straight Shooter

The Rolling Stones - Goat's Head Soup

Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus And Mars

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

Various - This Is...The Front Line

Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town

Jean-Michel Jarre - Zoolook

Huge playlist today as I was on shuffleplay - the playlist selected was my vinyl collection 1972-1988...

Post breakfast, out, down the hill and an airport bus into town...

A walk down the Royal Mile to Holyrood Palace, a place neither of us has visited...

I won't bore you with all the details but you can read more about this impressive complex at the link above...

Into the courtyard...

The fountain is a Victorian addition, behind it is the "new" wing...

...the "old" wing is to the left...

...and in we went...

The out-take...

...the in-take...

No photography was allowed inside...

Here are some pics I took...

The great stairway...

The dining room...

The throne room...

The drawing room

The windows of the Palace, as you would expect, afford good views of the gardens...

Music room...

The King's bed chamber...

The Great Gallery houses portraits of every Scottish king...

Commissioned by Charles II, the 110 portraits, beginning with the legendary Fergus I, who supposedly ruled from 330 BC, were completed in just two years, between 1684 and 1686, by the Dutch painter Jacob de Wet II...

On to Mary Queen of Scots' and Lord Darnley's rooms...

Darnley's bed...

Mary's bed...

The spot where Rizzio's body was left following his murder...

Out...

...and to the abbey...

Some close ups...

...and further out...

...to the gardens...

...round the back of the abbey...

...and of the palace...

Finally, back to the courtyard...

A very enjoyable 90 minutes or so...

A walk back up the Royal Mile and round into Market St where, opposite the council offices...

...we lunched at Ronaq...

Yum!

A walk through Princes St Gardens for the bus home...

...and a walk down Crispycat Hill...

...where this wee monkey was spotted...

A couple of "Arene Dahl"s enjoyed, as was the fact that our neighbours have finally had their garden tidied, including a surprise grass cut...

That's better...

Highlight of the Day : A wander round a palace...