DAY 5, May 2, 2013, Thurs Edinburgh: 14°C to -1°C):
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| Royal Yacht, Edinburgh |
Took the subway scheme from Hanger lane to King's Cross changing inward betwixt as well as arrived past times 6.30 AM good inward fourth dimension for our seven am train.
On the Edinburgh express.
Reached Edinburgh Waverly station past times 11.30. Instead of Edinburgh, nosotros had decided to remain a 10 infinitesimal ride away at Edinburgh Park, the Gyle. It was massive savings on room rate. Bought tickets for the local trains from the machine as well as boarded 1 going W after monitoring the board if the educate was calling at Edinburgh Park, the Gyle.
Reached Edinburgh Park inward 10 minutes, walked to Premier inn correct contrary the station as well as checked in.
Then took the educate dorsum to Waverly as well as boarded double decker charabanc no 22 to the Royal Yacht Brittania.
gives skillful maps as well as info
We reached sea terminal as well as went to the docks earlier agreement that the majestic yacht work was correct inward the sea terminal mall where our charabanc ride had terminated. We went to the 2d flooring of the mall as well as bought the tickets from the work as well as boarded the shipping with our good guide.
Royal Yacht Britannia:
Her Majesty's Yacht Britannia is the one-time Royal Yacht of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II.
The shipping is straightaway permanently moored every bit an exhibition shipping at Ocean Terminal, Leith, Edinburgh, Scotland.
Royal Yacht Britannia conveyed the Queen, other members of the Royal Family, as well as diverse dignitaries on 696 unusual visits as well as 272 visits inward British waters from 1954. In this fourth dimension Britannia steamed 1,087,623 nautical miles (2,014,278 km). U.S.A. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was aboard Britannia for component subdivision of a cruise; Presidents Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan as well as Bill Clinton also were after welcomed aboard the Yacht.
Highlights of the tour of the five decks that are opened upwards to Earth include the elegant State Apartments (Queen's Bedroom (behind a drinking glass wall), as well as the State Dining Room), the Crew’s Quarters, the Engine Room . The Royal Deck Tea Room opened inward 2009.
Charles as well as Diana, the Prince as well as Princess of Wales, took their honeymoon cruise aboard Britannia inward 1981... nosotros saw their room also.
The novel Labor authorities argued that the expenditure of maintaining could non live justified given the other pressures on the defense budget (from which it would live funded as well as maintained). Britannia was decommissioned on eleven Dec 1997. The Queen was reported to pick out wept at the decommissioning ceremony, which she attended along with most of the senior members of the Royal Family.
Beautiful views all round. This is from within the yacht through a window...
The good conduct gave loads of info.
Below is Prince Philip's bedroom, yes, the Queen has her ain split bed room!
This was the Queen's room...
This is the solely room with a double bed where Charles as well as Diana spent their honeymoon. The Clintons stayed hither on their visit.
Library...
The royals wanted the rooms inward province cottage style— the queen was detail it should non live ostentatious as well as rejected luxurious designs.
The drawing room below—-country cottage style.
The State dining room higher upwards where it took 3 hours to ready the tabular array every bit a ruler was used to exactly mensurate spacing.
There are 5 decks opened upwards for visitors—-internal staircase here.
Sword from Republic of Republic of India with gold/ivory case. swords studded with diamonds as well as gems; sword cases made of ivory, jade, woman bring upwards of pearl.
There were grander pieces at Windsor castle but at that topographic point no pics were allowed.
small jade as well as gilt dagger case.
Tiara
African ivory.
another tiara as well as motion epitome of queen wearing it.
Crew quarters where an admiral, xx officers as well as 220 yachtmen lived —bunk beds as well as lockers for their uniform.
Bought chocolate fudge from this shop—yummy!
Great idea—presses the whole wearing clothing at 1 go.
Rest of the maintenance equipment hither are non bad every bit well.
A retired Rolls-Royce Phantom V province car, owned past times the majestic identify unit of measurement inward the 1960s, is on display inward the purpose-built garage aboard Britannia.
The 1936 racing yacht Bloodhound, 1 time owned past times the Queen, is straightaway berthed amongst Britannia. Bloodhound was 1 of the most successful ocean-racing yachts e'er built as well as was also the yacht on which both the Prince of Wales as well as Princess Royal learned to sail. The Royal Yacht Britannia Trust bought this racing majestic yacht Bloodhound inward early on 2010 as well as she is the centrepiece of an exhibition focusing on the Royal Family's passion for sailing.
As usual, the gift store is nice.
After the see to the majestic yacht, made our agency to the National Gallery.
This bagpiper was awesome.
Sir Walter Scott's memorial inward the background.
Edinburgh castle seen from Scottish National Gallery
Princess garden also seen.
The Scottish National Gallery:
The Scottish National Gallery is the national fine art gallery of Scotland. It is located on The Mound inward fundamental Edinburgh, inward a neoclassical edifice opened to Earth inward 1859.
It is built inward the Greek Doric/Greek ionic trend with its frontal columns facing onto Princes Street.
We took several videos of paintings.
Raphael here...
Impressionism galore...
Degas
Lovely sceneries
Rembrandt self portrait
This epitome of an fine art gallery with thence many paintings as well as sculpture is AWESOME! Antwerp painter Willem van Haecht (1593-1637) is cipher brusk of remarkable. His paintings introduce so-called ‘kunstkamers’ or fine art cabinets, interiors brimming with paintings as well as other fine art objects.
Van Haecht’s painted ‘kunstkamers’ combine reality as well as fantasy. Virtually all of the paintings that he depicted inward these interiors were copies of existing industrial plant past times famous masters. However, they were never component subdivision of the same collection. Van Haecht assembled them together inward his painted world. Moreover, his cabinets are total of narrative elements referring to the artistic as well as cultural life inward contemporary Antwerp.
Van Haecht’s 3 known paintings are inward the Mauritshuis, the Rubenshuis inward Antwerp as well as inward a person collection.
Here's the same epitome from the net
Left the national gallery when they closed it down... on Thursdays, the gallery is supposed to live opened upwards till seven but they closed at 5.30 that day.
St Giles Cathedral:
We walked to St Giles Cathedral. It is located at most a tertiary of the agency downward the Royal Mile which runs from the Castle to Holyrood Palace.
St Giles Cathedral is the "Mother Church of Presbyterianism". The cathedral is dedicated to Saint Giles, who is the patron saint of Edinburgh, every bit good every bit of cripples. Its distinctive crown steeple is a prominent feature.
The main altar.
In 1637, King Charles I. with the scheme of having all his people of the same religion, ordered a liturgy, or service volume to live used inward St Giles. There was an uproar as well as revolt as well as a adult woman threw a chair at the Bishop. Thus began a revolt to hold their religious identity as well as political freedom.
On the hateful solar daytime inward 1707 when the Treaty of Union was signed to merge the Parliament of Scotland with the Parliament of England as well as exercise the Kingdom of Great Britain, the bells of St. Giles were played to the melody Why should I live thence lamentable on my marriage ceremony day?
In the after 19th century, stained drinking glass began to live pose into the windows which had been largely clear or plainly since the Reformation. This was a radical deed inward a Presbyterian church. They were hold upwards allowed on the reason that they illustrated Bible stories as well as were an aid to teaching, as well as non flippant decoration, or worse nevertheless idolatry.
The church building was opened upwards till 9pm.
We as well as thence walked to Waverly Station, took the educate to our hotel ending hateful solar daytime 1 inward Edinburgh.
The adjacent hateful solar daytime with see to Holyrood palace, Royal Botanic garden is covered here:
http://www.kris-sapiutri.blogspot.com/search?q=uk-trip-report-day-6-edinburgh-holyrood
The adjacent hateful solar daytime with see to Holyrood palace, Royal Botanic garden is covered here:
http://www.kris-sapiutri.blogspot.com/search?q=uk-trip-report-day-6-edinburgh-holyrood
Uk Trip Study Twenty-Four Hr Stream 5, Edinburgh: Majestic Yacht, National Gallery, St Giles Cathedral
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