Around 8 this morning I packed everything up and left the hostel that I had spent the night in. I got to the end of the street before realizing that I had no idea where my camera was and I thought I had left it in the room at the hostel. So I went back and looked just to find out I had accidently thrown it in my backpack when I was packing. Next to my laptop, my cameras are the most important things that I have with me, so I always have to check and make sure that I have them. My laptop isn’t hard to miss, it’s pretty much half the weight in my bag. Keeping track of its cords can be hard sometimes but I’m usually pretty good about it. I have 2 cameras that I keep on me at all times. My blue one is always within arm’s reach if it’s not already in my hand since it’s the one that I use most. I had it though so it was okay and I walked into the city center.
At the hostel there were flyers all over the place for a free walking tour through the city of Edinburgh. It was 3 hours long and it walked through both the Old Town and the New Town. I gave myself about an hour to get to the starting point since I had no clue where I was going and I was trying to figure out where things were on the map. I ended up finding a very beautiful cathedral on my way to the starting point, so I took a small detour to go look at it and I walked around the area and took pictures of it. Unlike Glasgow, Edinburgh is very picturesque and there is a lot to see and do there. On the way to the tour there was a lot to see and normally I would have stopped to take pictures of it, but I figured that I would get to see a lot of it during the walking tour and would wait to take them. The starting point for the tour was a Starbucks that was located in a little corner of the Old Town and to get there I had to walk through the New Town, which is pretty much a high end walking mall. It had all the big, name brand stores lining the streets, and whatever wasn’t along the road was in the mall. It felt like a regular city with traffic filled streets and stores everywhere with people rushing to and from different locations. It was only about 10 in the morning and the streets were packed with locals and tourists. Once you crossed the North Bridge into the Old Town it was like a completely different place.
The real stunning part of Edinburgh was in the Old Town. I could see why the walking tour was 3 hours. There was so much to see and learn about. I will admit, my favorite parts of the tour were the ones about Harry Potter. I have not read any of the books, only because when I was younger I had no desire to read them, but I have seen all of the movies up to this point and it does make me more interested in reading the books since books are always so much better than their movie counterparts. So at some point when I have the time to read a book that isn’t for school I may start the series or I may read something else, to be honest it depends on what I’m in the mood to do. Either way, the walking tour was a lot of fun and our tour guide James was a theatre/ history major, so doing the tours was pretty much his dream job. After the tour was over it was only a little after 2 and all of the museums and cathedrals closed at 5. I worked my way back through the city and saw the galleries and museums. I went into a couple of the Cathedrals and looked around. Since I wasn’t allowed to take pictures it didn’t take me long to really work my way through things. I spent more time walking around Edinburgh Castle (what I could without having to pay), and I worked my way back through the town and took more time to see the things that we just walked through or just passed on the tour. I walked around until about 11 that night, I did stop in a few places and ate or just hung out, but I headed to the train station since I was taking the 5:30 train to St. Andrews the next morning. I’m actually really surprised at how short this post is, but I won’t make it any longer so St. Andrews will be on its own.
With Love Always
so much walkinggg
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