On our own now, we spent a day in Edinburgh. These Scots can be a weird group — just look at this toilet sign spied in the Waverley shops, just off Princes Street...
We did a bit more shopping, and Suzie finally found a pair of shoes for the wedding!
We had lunch in the Castle View Restaurant on the top floor of Debenhams, where we had had a similar repast a few years ago. While in Debenham's, Warren found a new tie for the wedding!
We spent a lot of time in the Scottish National Gallery, which has a surprisingly good collection. One room in particular had a superb, if small, collection of the best of the French Impressionists...
Cézanne
Degas
Degas
Gauguin
Gauguin
Gauguin
Monet
Monet
Pisarro
Seurat
Seurat
Seurat
van Gogh
There were a number of major artists represented in the collection — Titian, Raphael, Caravaggio, Botticelli, Poussin, Rembrandt, Tintoretto, and many others. There were also a few paintings by Scottish artists which particularly took our fancy...
Sir Joseph Noel Paton
The Quarrel of Oberon and Titania
1845-50
William Bell Scott
Una and the Lion
1860
John Duncan
St Bride
1913
The Edinburgh Festival is almost on us, and the streets are busy. The Festival Wheel has been set up in East Princes Street Garden.
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