Edinburgh outing.

Today I went through to Edinburgh on the bus to see my cousin J who lives in an amazing top floor flat in the New Town. After a chat we went out to lunch. On the way to his flat I popped into the Portrait Gallery and enjoyed a wee wander.
It was pretty cold in Glasgow today and I had to release my car from its ice covering before driving to the subway. However, Edinburgh was freezing!

In 1898 William Hole painted a frieze depicting a variety of famous people from Scottish history, all dressed in fine regalia as they stand in a processional queue, looking down from the upper heights of the entrance hall at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery. The characters go back in time from Thomas Carlyle, who inspired the creation of the Gallery, and include such notables as James Watt, Robert Burns, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Mary Queen of Scots, William Wallace, Saint Columba along with many, many others. He also did the first floor wall mural.