Sooooo as expected I failed miserably at keeping my blog up to date. Anyways, I have been on a magnificent holiday I really feel I should write about.
A week or so ago I went to Edinburgh (Capital of the beautiful Scotland for anyone who is oblivious of the existence of this city). I went with three of my lovely friends from university and it was really nice to be in this amazing place with people who cared about it as much as I do. August is festival month in Edinburgh, because this is the month the Fringe Festival takes over the city. The Fringe festival is an art festival and there are venues throughout Edinburgh. Most of the shows taking place are comedy shows, or at least this seemed to be the case because the only flyers we got were for comedy shows. I really loved how all the dudes passing out the flyers were incredibly handsome, I see what you did there, really clever. However, this did make it slightly difficult to decline (so yeah it might've worked?).
So what have we been up to in Edinburgh? Basically everything a tourist does when on a city trip. The first day we went to see the castle, which was pretty. We made some nice pictures, almost got locked up in a section of the castle, and looked at all the other tourists wondering about (SO MANY AMERICANS). We had lunch in one of the Princess street gardens and looked at some art at the National Gallery of Scotland, which was free (yay). The second day we went on a quest to see Hume's grave, because why the hell not. After going up a hill, some stairs, enjoying a beautiful view of the city and the sea, and heading down the stairs again we finally found it. There were some Dutchies around who thought the Lincoln memorial at the graveyard was a statue of Obama.. Good job keeping up our reputation guys. After escaping the horror that is meeting fellow Dutchies on holiday we enjoyed a nice downpour (the only one in the 4 days we spent in Edinburgh), and enjoyed the rest of our day getting some dinner and a few drinks.
The Military Tattoo was also on when we were there, and will be for the most of August. It's basically a sort of music/dance event with military bands and such performing. For further reference: http://www.edintattoo.co.uk/. When we first saw the stadium they built next to the Castle we thought there was a Quidditch game going on, because that's what it looked and sounded like. Unfortunately that wasn't the case, but we did get to enjoy fireworks every night.
The third day we ventured to the Botanic Gardens on foot, which was kind of a mistake. We had had reasonably warm weather the two days before but that morning it was really chilly and our feet weren't so happy from all the climbing we did the day before. After a tour of New Town we finally arrived, only to be thrown into a friendly pit of mums with children, and plants.. As I don't really care much about plants, I just tried to enjoy watching the few animals that were walking around, and ate cookies. We left a nice message in the guest book that certainly was not anything along the lines of #plantswaggie, and took the bus back to Old Town.
Things worth noting?
Edinburgh is beautiful and old and ugh, I love it.
You won't hear much Scottish if you go during Fringe Festival, as there are lots of tourists around that are mainly from America/Asia.
Finding a place to eat dinner is kinda impossible during Fringe, but if you're okay with waiting you'll have no worries.
Beautiful men.
The ghost tours are scary if you are very gullible.
We failed at finding Scottish beer to drink
The city is built on 7 hills, prepare to walk a lot.
GO HERE IF YOU CAN IT IS AMAZING
So yeah that was probably all. Beware of agressive Italians shouting "What is you? What happened??" at cabbies. Check if TGI Fridays hasn't burned down before heading over there, and don't be shocked when you enter one of the chillest PRIMARKS ever (I've never been to a PRIMARK that was as quiet as the one in Edinburgh).
