Slower day today.
Started with a phone call to Dave while still in bed. Hmmm :)
Then I called my sisters. Silly girls.
Headed out about 11.30. Aunty Dan dropped the girls in the city, then we went for a drive to Duddingston, east of the city, on the other side of Holyrood Park where I was yesterday. Duddingston is one of the oldest parts of Edinburgh, apparently. There was nothing much, just a pub "Sheeps Heid Inn", and old houses. It was a nice walk through the village anyway.
Then we went to the Scottish Parliament and I actually went in this time. The architecture is pretty... interesting. (I'm looking at you, Timmy Fok.) It's pretty incongruent with the rest of the city, it looks like something that a city like Melbourne would build, but it does it's job of providing a place to hold Parliament, so can't complain.
Walked up the Royal Mile/High Street again, but with Danielle. Was going to go see the John Knox House, which is another example of a medieval house, but decided when I got there that it didn't look all that good.
Sarah and Georgie had gone shopping to look for a present for Mish, whose birthday is today, so we met them on Princes St and went to find some lunch. Went to a pub/bar type thing and had sandwiches and soup :) the place had a good deal going, so we all ended getting the same thing lol. Went to some more shops with the girls after lunch, then got picked up.
Edinburgh seems to be a pretty easy city to navigate. Like I've been here 4 days and I pretty much know where the main streets are and I have a map of the place (with street names) in my head. I know Melbourne is organised in blocks, but I seriously cannot tell you the names of the parallel streets in the correct order. Obviously I know where things are, I just wouldn't be able to give you street names.
Today the ATMs seemed to hate me. The first one I went to, everything went smoothly, until the machine was supposed to give me my money, then it came up with a thing saying that there was a problem and that nothing would be debited from my account. The second one I went up to said that they could not dispense cash today, but everything else would be fine. THE ONLY THING I WANT IS CASH DAMMIT. Ugh. Then the final one worked, but gave me Scottish pounds because it was a Bank of Scotland ATM. Grrrr. (It's okay, I swapped them for British pounds with Aunty Dan when I got back home). Scottish pounds are very colourful.
When we got home we watched Limitless. Violent much. Now that I think about it, it was a kinda pointless movie, but entertaining nonetheless. That actually didn't occur to me right after watching the movie.
We were going to watch One Day at the cinemas, but we decided to go to another Fringe Festival show instead, called "Lights, Camera, Improvise". As the name suggests, the show is improvised. ALL of it. There were about 7 actors, and at the start one of them asks for a vote of genre, then suggestions for a setting and a name for the act. Then that person sits on the side and acts as a narrator while the rest act out the story. It's actually pretty amazing. They looked pretty young, like maybe drama students, but their teamwork was quite good. We voted for a rom-com, so it was really funny. As you can guess, every show would be different, so if I ever get the chance to see them again anywhere I definitely would.
So now I'm showered, packed (mostly), ready to set off for the airport at 7.30 tmrw.
I have seriously eaten way too much and done too little housework here in Edinburgh. But it's been fun :)
Started with a phone call to Dave while still in bed. Hmmm :)
Then I called my sisters. Silly girls.
Headed out about 11.30. Aunty Dan dropped the girls in the city, then we went for a drive to Duddingston, east of the city, on the other side of Holyrood Park where I was yesterday. Duddingston is one of the oldest parts of Edinburgh, apparently. There was nothing much, just a pub "Sheeps Heid Inn", and old houses. It was a nice walk through the village anyway.
Then we went to the Scottish Parliament and I actually went in this time. The architecture is pretty... interesting. (I'm looking at you, Timmy Fok.) It's pretty incongruent with the rest of the city, it looks like something that a city like Melbourne would build, but it does it's job of providing a place to hold Parliament, so can't complain.
Walked up the Royal Mile/High Street again, but with Danielle. Was going to go see the John Knox House, which is another example of a medieval house, but decided when I got there that it didn't look all that good.
Sarah and Georgie had gone shopping to look for a present for Mish, whose birthday is today, so we met them on Princes St and went to find some lunch. Went to a pub/bar type thing and had sandwiches and soup :) the place had a good deal going, so we all ended getting the same thing lol. Went to some more shops with the girls after lunch, then got picked up.
Edinburgh seems to be a pretty easy city to navigate. Like I've been here 4 days and I pretty much know where the main streets are and I have a map of the place (with street names) in my head. I know Melbourne is organised in blocks, but I seriously cannot tell you the names of the parallel streets in the correct order. Obviously I know where things are, I just wouldn't be able to give you street names.
Today the ATMs seemed to hate me. The first one I went to, everything went smoothly, until the machine was supposed to give me my money, then it came up with a thing saying that there was a problem and that nothing would be debited from my account. The second one I went up to said that they could not dispense cash today, but everything else would be fine. THE ONLY THING I WANT IS CASH DAMMIT. Ugh. Then the final one worked, but gave me Scottish pounds because it was a Bank of Scotland ATM. Grrrr. (It's okay, I swapped them for British pounds with Aunty Dan when I got back home). Scottish pounds are very colourful.
When we got home we watched Limitless. Violent much. Now that I think about it, it was a kinda pointless movie, but entertaining nonetheless. That actually didn't occur to me right after watching the movie.
We were going to watch One Day at the cinemas, but we decided to go to another Fringe Festival show instead, called "Lights, Camera, Improvise". As the name suggests, the show is improvised. ALL of it. There were about 7 actors, and at the start one of them asks for a vote of genre, then suggestions for a setting and a name for the act. Then that person sits on the side and acts as a narrator while the rest act out the story. It's actually pretty amazing. They looked pretty young, like maybe drama students, but their teamwork was quite good. We voted for a rom-com, so it was really funny. As you can guess, every show would be different, so if I ever get the chance to see them again anywhere I definitely would.
So now I'm showered, packed (mostly), ready to set off for the airport at 7.30 tmrw.
I have seriously eaten way too much and done too little housework here in Edinburgh. But it's been fun :)
we were looking at the scottish parliament in arc theory class and someone remarked that it looked like someone had dropped a pile of pick-up sticks and used that as the design inspiration lol. Fringe festival sounds amazing. Did you get to go to the castle or were you ceebs?
ReplyDeleteyea i pretty much ceebsed. I'd just seen Hever Castle like 2 days before I got to Edinburgh, and I had heaps to do in Edinburgh soaking up the culture anyway
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