after their first astonishment the girls found the whole situation very funny, and the three stood at the caravan door laughing their heads off! I decided to try and see whether I could make it to the caravan, and found the water coming up to my knees, so I waded through, and brought some clothes for them to dry ground.
It looked scary from inside the caravan, all the camping chairs, and clothes, and food, and like I saw earlier, even a small fridge, bobbing up and down on the water.
Emma was having a hard time gathering people's stuff, and it looked so strange, the small kajak going up and down between the caravans! We couldn't help a lot, the water being too deep, but, together with Andy, one of the mcGregor boys who lived in a caravan on the sight, we could salvage a few things that was floating in the shallower water.
We had decided to go to Edinburgh for the day, and as the car was standing on the verge of the now busy road, the two youngsters of course stood hiding behind a bush until I had done my thing with the beach umbrella and got the Panda started.
I drove back to Irene's house so that the three girls could change into dry clothes, and then we were off to Stirling where I would park the car, and we would take the bus from.
Edinburgh is to me one of the most beautiful cities I have ever seen, the Royal mile stretching away from the castle like a street from a story book, and one could almost write one's own fairy tale.I loved to sit in the park between Princess street and the mount on which the castle stood watching over the city, and I sometimes laughed out loud at the antics of the small squirrels, who were a happy bunch, and not at all scared of people.
The only flaw in this wonderful day was Kristani and her new shoes. Irma had warned her to put on an older pair of walking shoes, but na, na, Kristani wouldn't listen! So after walking up the quite strenious road to the castle, Kristani started limping, and moaning! Kristani is a Virgo, and like all Virgo's, my son included, she could MOAN! At first Irma was not very sympathetic, as we had all urged her to wear the older shoes, but after a while we could't ignore the moans anymore!
So, as Kristani wore the same size shoe as myself, we swapped, as I thought that maybe the shoes wouldn't hurt me, but after about five hundred meters my heels were starting to blister and I had to call a halt, and we swapped back! She had bought this pair of funky shoes at Camden Town, and we realized soon enough that it might not have been a good buy, although very trendy!
We then found a shoe shop, where Irma bought a pair of cheapy flip-flops, and it went well for another fifty meters or so, until Kristani started moaning that she now had blisters not only at her heels from the other shoes, but also between her toes where the thong of the flip-flops went through!
By this time all of us had lost the tiny shred of sympathy we still had, and we all three told her shortly to take the bally flip-flops off then, and walk bare-foot, which she promptly did. From then on things were a lot nicer, and we could again fokus on all there was to see, and Kristani's plaintiff moans that her feet were cold fell on deaf ears.

 The art museum in Edinburgh is one of my favourite places, and we spent quite a long time in there!