Stopped in Edinburgh today. Caught a tram to Princes Street walked up the mound to the Royal Mile then back down through the gardens and then to Dean Bridge. Cool windy and overcast. A normal summer day someone unkindly said!

Dean Bridge

Looking down on Dean Village from the bridge

We continued on to 24 Buckingham Terrace where I lived for the last part of our time in Edinburgh from 1961 to 1962. We occupied the basement and ground floor.

On our way back to Princes Street we stopped at a cafe for a light lunch.

In the evening the ship turned on a special dinner for the 82 guests doing the 79 day Grand European Voyage. It was spectacular! The only choice was between a cheese course or desert. Before dinner we had drinks and canapés and a demonstration of highland dancing with a dancer and bagpiper.

Before dinner we had a special reception where the cruise director gave a speech and then hooked the captain by FaceTime into the AV system to thank us and say farewell; he couldn’t attend in person because he was involved with manoeuvring the ship through a lock and out of the port.

The entire entertainment team (two bands and about 15 singers) sang a tribute to us, which included tap-dancing by one of the entertainment managers, which was very moving. Then the piper piped us into the Colonnade restaurant which had been set aside exclusively for our function.