{"id":178,"date":"2016-04-04T04:37:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-03T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/?p=178"},"modified":"2016-04-04T04:37:15","modified_gmt":"2016-04-03T18:37:15","slug":"3-april-2016-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/3-april-2016-edinburgh\/","title":{"rendered":"3 April 2016; Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we walked to Hollyrood Palace, the official residence of the Queen, in Scotland. It was extremely cold and drizzling with rain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_175\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-175\" style=\"width: 487px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-175\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Palace-of-Hollyroodhouse.jpg\" alt=\"Palace of Hollyroodhouse - Queen's official residence in Scotland\" width=\"487\" height=\"222\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-175\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Palace of Hollyroodhouse &#8211; Queen&#8217;s official residence in Scotland<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Calton Hill provides a view of Edinburgh from within, with views over the river Forth and the Atlantic Ocean beyond.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-177\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Waterloo-St-from-Calton-Hill.jpg\" alt=\"Waterloo St from Calton Hill, Edinburgh Castle in top left hand corner\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterloo St from Calton Hill, Edinburgh Castle in top left hand corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery, which contain many wonderful paintings and other works of art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_176\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" style=\"width: 518px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Scottish-National-Portrait-Gallery-entrance-foyer.jpg\" alt=\"Entrance foyer of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Entrance foyer of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We finished the day with a walk to Greyfriars Kirk (a church) within which is buried John Gray and his beloved Skye Terrier, Bobby.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-173 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Greyfriars-Bobby-1.jpg\" alt=\"Greyfriars Bobby 1\" width=\"518\" height=\"345\" \/>When John Gray died, his beloved Bobby is reported to have spent fourteen years guarding his grave. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Greyfriars_Bobby\">Greyfriar&#8217;s Bobby<\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_174\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-174\" style=\"width: 220px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-174\" src=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Greyfriars-Bobby-2.jpg\" alt=\"The Bobby\" width=\"220\" height=\"286\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-174\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Bobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Tommorrow we&#8217;re off to Edinburgh Castle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we walked to Hollyrood Palace, the official residence of the Queen, in Scotland. It was extremely cold and drizzling with rain. Calton Hill provides a view of Edinburgh from within, with views over the river Forth and the Atlantic Ocean beyond. We visited the Scottish National Portrait Gallery and the Scottish National Gallery, which &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/2016\/04\/04\/3-april-2016-edinburgh\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;3 April 2016; Edinburgh&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chris-and-gregs-holiday"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worktime.dynalias.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}