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| Holyrood Palace |
Since we like to walk, we enjoyed the five-mile round-trip walk from our flat to the Palace and back; took us through both the Old Town and new Town sections of Edinburgh. However, when we arrived back at our flat we realized that the $37 we paid for admission could have been converted to a pair of annual passes at no extra charge if we had gotten our tickets stamped upon exiting the Palace; we did not do that. So, one of us gets up early the next morning and walks back to the Palace, arriving there when the doors open, and determined to return to the flat with a pair of annual passes. Not saying which one of us is doing the extra five miles of walking.
But, that individual returned to the flat empty handed; did not realize that more than the previous day's purchase receipt was needed. Undaunted, and highly motivated to save money, that same individual, within minutes after completing the fool's errand, sets out on yet another Palace five-mile round-trip walk. Well, not quite immediately. Since the crucial documentation had already been deposited in the kitchen waste bin, together with wet and smelly food scraps, and since that waste bin had already been bagged and deposited in the rubbish bin on the street, a bit of dumpster diving was in order. Ever persistent, the valuable documentation was retrieved, carried to the Palace ticket clerk, who definitely remembered the the failed attempt a couple hours earlier, and success. This is where the angles sing. We now have a pair of annual passes to the Holyrood Palace. That evening, Mike enjoyed a wee dram of Scotch.