Edinburgh & Cambridge:
Remember last year around this time...Andy, Josh, Coy and I traveled to Berlin and Munich to see our favorite artist perform two nights in a row? Well, we did it again ;) This time we did back to back concerts in Edinburgh, Scotland and Cambridge, England...
Edinburgh:
What an awesome city! We flew in the day of the concert and had a full day to check out the Royal Mile, Edinburgh Castle and a few Scottish Pubs (complete with Coy being brave enough to try Haggis :) That evening at the concert Ryan played for a solid 3 hours (25 songs!) and he completely rocked it. It was one of the best concerts we'd ever seen...and that includes the time I saw Roger Waters (of Pink Floyd fame) at the Gorge.
Our second day in Edinburgh we visited Rosslyn Chapel (made famous in the final scene of the DaVinci code) just outside of the city. The church was built in the mid 15th century and the architecture has many references to the Knights Templar and free-masonry. The inside was very intricately carved to high heavens...see photos below:
After that we were back in the city center and went into Edinburgh Castle for a tour. We even saw the famous crown jewels...which was worthwhile but super cold and windy. So we were happy to spend the rest of the day eating / drinking our way through a few really cool old pubs...which were all blissfully smoke free.
Cambridge:
The next day we flew to London and traveled by bus to Cambridge. Cambridge, obviously home of the super famous University of the same name, was so quaint and adorable. We ate dinner at one of the oldest pubs in town (the Eagle - where in 1953 Watson & Crick announced that they had discovered DNA).
On our way into the concert I spotted two of the band members and I yelled "I love you Cardinals" at them and they seemed pretty excited that someone recognized them :) But I chickened out and didn't get my picture with them, darn it all. The second concert was a little shorter than the first, but still perfect!
I don't know how long it will be before we make it to another one of their concerts...and even then it will probably be in Seattle rather than some cool European city, so we were so glad to have made it to these ones!
Coy got a lot of awesome pictures with his fancy new camera, so I'll have to add those later once I'm able to get them from him.
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