Christmas Shoppping in Edinburgh

As I am a lady of leisure / between jobs, I've got 2 weeks of me time. My friend Pete wanted a hand with his christmas shopping as in true Jaimie styleee all mind is all done. So when I got back from New Zealand I asked where he'd like to go shopping - I was thinking the Metro Centre (Europe's largest shopping mall and on the door step) or Newcastle, but nope I got the answer Edinburgh as even though he's a northern lad, he's never been to Edinburgh !!!! I should have frequent miles as I am in Edinburgh so often visiting Stella !!!
So, I was picked up at 7:30am, in the dark, in the cold and off we went on our adventure.... Arrived 2 hours later on the outskirts of Edin and did a 'park and ride' into the city centre. Just didn't want the hassel of trying to find somewhere to park in the city center.
On the way to Edin we made a list of people needed to buy for. As Pete had actually bought most of his gifts we decided to be toursits as our catch phare for the day turned out to be "well, we are on holiday"!!!!
Tourists we where - Edinburgh Castle, Princess Street, German Christmas Markets, Shopping, Bus tour of the city, lunch in the Hard Rock Cafe - well we where on holiday !!!! It was bloomin freezing though, didn't get above 3oC and I did become slightly jealous of Pete remembering a hat !!!!!