Edinburgh - ghost/Potter tour

Went on the famous City of the Dead tour - only slightly spooky but very informative and entertaining - definitely recommend! No pics from the tour because it was usually very dark and camera flashes were blinding.

Afterwards, the guide was kind enough to take a few interested people to see some stuff that JK Rowling used for ideas for Harry Potter. The medical school (former mental asylum) on which Hogwarts is based, grave stones/markers where names were used: McGonagall (a bad poet), Moody (from Moodie), Tom Riddle (from Thomas Riddell, btw Riddell means naturally gifted, so Marvolo Riddle likely means marvelously naturally gifted), James Potter (if you read across the line).
Sadly a bunch of other grave stones had to be removed since Harry Potter because people were taking bits as souvenirs and destroying them.Read more