It was such a lovely day, so on way into town to seek out Mrs. B.who was busily "touching clothes" in many of Edinburgh's top shops. I headed up onto the Blackford Hill to the Royal Observatory and had managed a couple of nice views looking East over Arthur's Seat and onto the River Forth. On the road up to Observatory there is a magnificent gateway / arch erected in 1885 in memory of Sir George Harrison, Lord Provost at the time who had the City of Edinburgh buy the Blackford Hill for the people of the City.
Into the Town and passed the rebuilt arch at the site of the Old Meat Market , erected 1884, at Fountainbridge, and then after stopping off at The Mercat I went round into the New Town. 
The Georgian Terraces are true works of art, and I think not fully appreciated by the locals who have so much beauty on their doorstep, and the old adage, keep looking up is very true, as there is so much hidden away up in the roof tops.
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