Edinburgh is a very cool city. Liked it. Beautiful buildings, steeped in history and surprisingly quite multicultural. It’s a great place to just walk around with its cobbled stone paths, vibrant atmosphere and attractive women (think they may have all been foreigners). And the food is so much better than in the north of England! It seems to be a fairly affluent city with plenty of boutique shops, nice cars and houses, well dressed locals etc, an element of refinement that was missing from some of the other UK cities I’d been to up until then.
As expected, the weather wasn’t exactly conducive to seeing sites. Misty rain constantly rolling through. June had been the wettest on record in Edinburgh! No wonder all the old historical buildings and churches are blanketed with green moss and damp stains, adding to the charm in some ways. Invariably the sights that I visited the most were the inside of pubs…..managed to find some very good ones too (thanks Pat). Couldn’t for the life of me find the Edinburgh Museum so went to an old pub with only local patrons out of the city centre and got a first-hand education on daily life in Edinburgh anyway.
The ritual seems to go something as follows....knock off work at 5pm, head straight to the local pub. Before you have sat down the waitress has almost finished pouring your beer, not that you have even ordered one yet. You drink the first half of the pint fairly quickly and go out for fag. Come back in and finish the beer, having ordered the next one when you returned to the bar after the fag. Repeat above at least 3-4 times. Return the following day. And that is kind of what I did for three days...except for the smoking.
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| View from top of Arthur's Seat of the cathedral and castle and Royal Mile |
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| Royal Mile |
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