>> Should've bought one back then Manatee.
I'd love it, although I think the month of the tattoo would be time to go on holiday if I lived there.
The scaffolding you can see in the right of the picture in the wikipedia article is the seating in the castle yard.
I was billeted at Ramsay Lodge, the nearest bit to the castle yard.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsay_Garden
In the picture, on the right, you can see the mullioned lounge (as it was then) windows from which some of us gazed across to the Firth of Forth looking for the Argentines who had just invaded the nearby Falkland Islands!
"Ramsay Lodge was the last of the University Halls to be sold off by the Town and Gown Association. When it was purchased in 1945 by the Commercial Bank of Scotland, it was a condition of sale that the murals be retained. The Bank went on to use the Lodge as a residential hostel and training centre."
I'm guessing that the Lodge might also been converted to apartments now, although the bank subsidiary that used it then still exists, sort of. I meant to look last time I was in Edinburgh and forgot.
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