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As we had an early morning flight from Edinburgh to Gatwick the following day so we decided to book an overnight stay in Edinburgh.

Unfortunately our usual choice of either Premier Inn was returning astronomical prices so we looked for other options and chose the Doubletree at the Airport.

I won’t go into a full rant about this hotel but suffice to say it was the noisiest hotel we have ever been to. I think the walls were made of cardboard and the plumbing was very suspect. Every flush of a toilet or a tap going on was heard several floors away.

Anyway, rant over, we enjoyed a really pleasant and chilled day in Edinburgh and enjoyed lunch from M& S and coffees from Starbucks whilst picking up a few bits and pieces at the Gyle Centre before tramming into the Centre.

We completed some of the Oor Wullie trail (for our Scottish readers)

before a pub stop and couple of pints from the Alexander Graham Bell in George Street before moving on to the Cambridge Bar for tea. The food here (mainly burgers) is first class and tonight was no exception.

I had the breakfast burger, DW the chicken burger with haggis and DS the barbecue burger. We always opt for the Cajun fries.

We were suitably stuffed however it was a good training meal for the trip ahead.

On returning to the Doubletree we were alerted (not by BA I must add) of potential problems at Gatwick due to Air traffic controllers and we went to bed a bit uneasy at what may lay ahead.