Edinburgh...
When you enter Edinburgh there is a rich Scottish culture that greets you and you find yourself searching for ways that you identify with it. Both of us have some Scottish blood in us and Scotland felt quite safe and easy to adjust to. We arrived early in the morning exhausted from our very late night in Dublin in conjunction with our very early plane from Dublin. (2/2) We pushed through it though and we went out for a free walking tour...we were pretty exhausted so the amount of actual information obtained is questionable. We got some fish and chips, met some more Americans, and read our books for awhile at the pub. We proceeded to go to bed fairly early. The next morning we checked out and went to a supermarket to pack a picnic for our day out. We bought tickets and went on a train to Sterling Castle, ate our lunch overlooking the Scottish country side off a cliff, and enjoyed a lovely tour. The city was rainy and very chilly the first day...we could barely keep the umbrella open. One thing about Edinburgh is that it is very built, lots of rock and bag pipes...cold, wind, rain, running in the rain, museums, brilliant writers, romantic, lots of green and flowers, rough land with rich history, scattered castles, tamed rock that breaks open to water...it almost seems sad how much the rocks have been tamed...cafes, pubs, and elegant. Another great place...
"this is a city of shifting light, of changing skies, of sudden vistas. A city so beautiful, it breaks the heart again and again."
-Alexander McCall Smith
"It is quite beautiful
Bits of it"
-Oscar Wilde
Wonderful description of it. :) It is much how I myself found it. I'm so very glad you were able to experience it's beauty, and its wildness.
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