July 30 - Edinburgh, Scotland
We anchored very early this morning. The last time we were here on the Navigator we were able to get into the lock and dock right at the pier next to the Royal Yacht Britannia, which is now a museum. Unfortunately, this ship is too large for that, so we had to anchor and use the tenders to get in. Anchoring was at 7:00 am and our tour was scheduled to meet at 7:20 am. We dutifully set the alarm, but just before it was scheduled to go off, I had second thoughts. We've been here a few times before and seen everything we wanted to. This tour would have been a general bus tour with no stops and I decided that perhaps we didn't really need to do that. Michael agreed, so I sent a text to Jan/Tom who were on the same tour to say that we wouldn't be there. We fully intended to return the tickets to the desk so they could pass them along if someone else wanted them. But, we fell back asleep again and woke up at 7:30. Ah well. Jan ...