Edinburgh 2: York 2

Edinburgh: Capital city of Scotland and so far an untried CNPS testing ground, for me at least. London had proved fruitful over the past few weeks, could it's northern sister do as well?

Not quite. But not too bad either. Queens St is a road parallel to Princes St but further into New Town. It doesn't have the shopping of it's princely brethren, but it did have a 72 at half past four. A 72 that turned out to be the first of three that I would see within the next ten minutes. This seems to be happning often. The rest of the day was barren, but whilst returning to the train station in Bert's car the next day, I did achieve the 73. Bert did try his best to make us miss the train by causing delays by pretending to lose his phone and then dropping us behind the station at a point where he could have had no idea where that there was actually an entrance nearby. But we found it! Ha! And caught the train too.

Back in York, traditionally things go quiet again, but today I have defied all my expectations - both of them in fact. 74 was a lunchtime affair at the end of Lendal - the car was heading north along the inner ring road, maybe going to the supermarket, maybe to the hospital. It was hard to tell and I was unable to stop the car and ask the driver his destination. I don't do that anymore.

One plate would normally be enough for me for one York day, but this evening I topped it and found 75 on Micklegate at a quarter to six. It was heading in towards town and again I did not stop to enquire about the destination.