Lions and Tigers and a Severe Lack of Bears. Oh My!

(Edinburgh, Day 2 - August 23th, 2007)

Started the day off with a traditional Scottish breakfast of a fried egg, bacon, sausage, fried tomato, toast, and mushrooms. It's quite good, though I'm sure it sped us along towards an early heart attack at some point down the road.

Our goal today is the Edinburgh Zoo! We head off from the B&B into Portobello to catch the bus. It's awfully convenient that the bus we take from City Centre to Portobello and back is the very same bus we take to the Zoo... though there's a slight detour to a used camera store along the way. I happen to find a used Pentax 50mm f1.7 manual focus lens for a reasonable price. It's in great condition optically and physically so I snatch it up. It should make for a great portrait lens, hehe.

Okay when I said slight detour earlier, I lied. We didn't go to the Zoo until later in the day, as Eva wanted to go to the Book Festival as well. We went and had a poke around however Eva didn't really find anything too interesting, though we did have some ice cream (99's, an ice cream cone with a Cadbury's Flake bar in them... yum!).

So then, off to the Zoo finally. We managed to make it there about 3, which meant we had about 3 hours ot explore the Zoo. We didn't see absolutely everything however we did get to see a lot. The pictures in the "Edinburgh - Day 3" set on Flickr really show some of the highlights. There wasn't much going on as it was mid-afternoon so a lot of the animals were resting. Though the lions did start making a racket after we left their area, and I think the Baboons started yelling at some obnoxious children though we missed that as well.

Anyways, off to write about Day 3.