Day3: Edinburgh
After breakfast at one of the cute coffee shops around the corner from our hotel, Robs headed back into the shopping district, there can’t be much left in the stores in Prince’s Street.
Gray and I took a walk up to the Meadows. It was beautiful, yellow daffodils were out in the park and I got a doggy fix, cuddling labs on their morning walk. We headed down to Grass Market, up Victoria Street, to the Royal Mile (linking Edinburgh Castle to Hollyrood Castle) and down to Princes Street Gardens. There is something so magical about this area, a place I can visit again and again and it still exudes immense historical charm.
This afternoon was the reason for our trip, it was Robs’s graduation.
She completed her degree at Edinburgh University during Covid and unfortunately, at the time, there was no grad ceremony.
The graduation today was so worth the wait. It’s hard to put into words how extraordinarily special the experience was. The ceremony was run with military precision in the breathtakingly beautiful McEwan Hall. This iconic Hall has been holding graduation ceremonies for more than a century.
This afternoon was Scotland at its finest and Gray and I burst with pride as our beautiful Robs was capped for achieving her MSc in Environmental Studies, with Honours.
We had a celebratory dinner at the Stockbridge Restaurant. The food was absolutely amazing.
Such a perfect day.
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