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Thursday, July 14, 2011

A Lovely Day in Edinburgh

Today, I had to go to Edinburgh to meet my adviser and discuss my dissertation--the weather was beautiful!  I brought a rain jacket and a sweatshirt (yes, even in the middle of July) but today all I needed was my Shades.  I took the opportunity to eat at McDonalds-thank goodness for globalization! I visited John Lewis, my favorite store over here--think Dillards.   Then I went and laid out in the Princess Gardens right under the famous castle-that is what EVERYONE is Britain does when there is a bit of sunshine in the sky--abandon whatever you are doing and go lay outside!  After that I decided to walk the opposite directions from where all the tourists flock and I ended up at Calton Hill.  Now when people visit Edinburgh this is on the list of places to go, but I had actually hadn't heard of it so in case you haven't either here is a blurb from wikipedia!

The hill was used from ancient times as a place of execution. Most famously Major Weir the self-confessed Edinburgh warlock, was executed here. The hill was originally part of the Barony of Calton which was abolished in 1856. King James II of Scotland allowed the residents of Edinburgh to use the North West slope of the hill for "tilts and tournaments"in 1456.

It also (this is me now, not wikipedia) overlooks Holyrood Palace, the official residence of the Queen in Scotland.

Enjoy the pictures!





















2 comments:

  1. Beautiful pictures! Was that a bourbon machine? (like a pop machine)

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  2. Ha no. but that would have been sweet!

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