Day 15- Sharks and Suitcases

After spending a lovely two evenings in our campsite in Stirling, we decided it was time to head back to Edinburgh to hand back Cylde's keys.  We still had a few things left to do before the official hand over, one of which was to visit Deep Sea World in North Queensferry, just over the bridge before Edinburgh.  We toured around the aquarium and were surprised to note how quiet the attraction was, then we remembered that most Scottish school children had already gone back to school.  Apparently school started last week for most of Scotland's children.  Deep Sea World as an interesting place, that featured "one of Europe's longest underwater tunnels".  The tunnel had a moving side walk, designed to keep people moving along at a sufficient pace, but I think it also double as whale translator,because the moaning and screeching noises it made were horrendous!

Once done at the aquarium we thought the North Queensferry was a great placed to set up for the night before we journey back into Edinburgh. There were two reasons for this:

1) We had accumulated far more souvenirs that our suitcase had space for. If we were to get it all home, we were going to need to buy a second suitcase!
2) We had to be strategic about when we were going to drive into Edinburgh.  We wanted to avoid rush hours times.

So we checked into a local Inn at the foot of the bridge  and went out in search of an ASDA ( the UK branch of Walmart) to find a suitcase.  I won't scandalize you with the sordid details of that journey, but lets just say that a journey that was only a few miles long, turned into an epic maze of wrongly followed roundabouts!      

After all that, we were ready for a meal and bed, so that's exactly what we did!  We set the alarm for an early rise tomorrow into the city, and steeled ourselves for what driving in a major European city would entail.