Well my followers, spread thin along the ground, it has been a GREEAAAATTT day. Myself and my friend Chris decided to make a Monday afternoon that little more enjoyable, and headed out into the glorious Edinburgh sunshine/haze to see what this fine city has to offer. Found a delicious little corner shop on Cockburn street (the name still gets me) that sold the most amazing of ice cream. So as we stood outside the shop with our sweets, contemplating the day ahead, a thought hit us.

"Let's go 'tap' the castle"

So off we head to the castle, until we got to the entrance and found the Tattoo preparation was happening, and there was no way we were gonna get near the place, so... what to do, what to do?.... After a moment, we thought it wouldbe nice to look at the castle from the other side. So we set off down the lane, checked out the castle, and were about to head home when we spotted this plaque on the side of the castle wall. There was this.. moment, and suddenly we both realised we had to find out what that plaque said. For those of you who aren't familiar with Edinburgh castle, it's basically built on top of a hill. A nice, grassy hill, which means it's pretty much impossible to reach the castle from the ground. Oh yeah?

Like hell it is. We took about 15 minutes climbing this hill, trying not to get ripped to shreads by nettley-thistley things, and we finally hit the top and it is beautiful. However, we've had to shift along a bit whilst climbing up so we're on the wrong side of the hill from the plaque. What do we do? We kick back, relax, crack open a couple of beers and drink in the copious amounts of Vitamin D that's so hard to come by these days.It was a fantastic hour and a half. We spoke at great lengths about UFOs, spirituality, ghosts and dreams. We discussed our parents, our childhood, the weather, the city, pissing into a volcano, the usual banter really.

So, when the beer was drunk and the day was slowly ending -not to mention the 4 hour shift at Threshers that just wouldn't go away - we began to make our way down the hill. It took us about 5 minutes to make our way down this monster, and then weran right into a couple of coppers sitting in wait for us. Hmm....

Well, after a lengthy discussion about WHY hill climbing is not allowed and various personal details being passed, we were sent on our way. A fun way to end an afternoon me thinks. Not fun enough? Of course not, but we made up for it with another round of that delectable ice cream from the morning. Aaaaahhhh.

Bisto.