Post by chariset on Sept 11, 2010 19:40:27 GMT
Ah, Bonnie Scotland.
When you're in a nice hotel/hostel, this is the kind of thistle you'll find in vases in the dining area. I looked for thistles in the wild and didn't find anything nearly as pretty.
Edinburgh:
This is the front of the famous Balmoral Hotel, taken from across the street. The entrance to the bar is on the left; the train station is down a long flight of stairs to the right.
My friend Scott, quite pleased to have found the [Sir Walter] Scott Monument.
Scott very much wanted to find a statue of David Hume which he'd heard was in town. We checked every bit of statuary on Princes Street looking for it. Before long it was an injoke (you have to remember we were both very jetlagged). The next day, we found the thing on the road leading up to Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh Castle
St. Andrews:
This is the beach at the north end of town, called the West Sands. Purportedly the opening scene of Chariots of Fire was filmed on this beach.
The North Sea. There is a near-constant sea breeze in St. Andrews because it's right on the ocean.
The Old Course, also on the north end. Golf is very much the game in town.
Now to the east side of town. This is St Andrews Castle, taken from the sea wall at the harbor on a very windy day.
And St Andrews Cathedral, or the ruins thereof. When the Reformation came to Scotland, the earliest Reformers were martyred but eventually the Protestant church won the day. The cathedral was torn down by its own parishioners in the 1600s.
When you're in a nice hotel/hostel, this is the kind of thistle you'll find in vases in the dining area. I looked for thistles in the wild and didn't find anything nearly as pretty.
Edinburgh:
This is the front of the famous Balmoral Hotel, taken from across the street. The entrance to the bar is on the left; the train station is down a long flight of stairs to the right.
My friend Scott, quite pleased to have found the [Sir Walter] Scott Monument.
Scott very much wanted to find a statue of David Hume which he'd heard was in town. We checked every bit of statuary on Princes Street looking for it. Before long it was an injoke (you have to remember we were both very jetlagged). The next day, we found the thing on the road leading up to Edinburgh Castle.
Edinburgh Castle
St. Andrews:
This is the beach at the north end of town, called the West Sands. Purportedly the opening scene of Chariots of Fire was filmed on this beach.
The North Sea. There is a near-constant sea breeze in St. Andrews because it's right on the ocean.
The Old Course, also on the north end. Golf is very much the game in town.
Now to the east side of town. This is St Andrews Castle, taken from the sea wall at the harbor on a very windy day.
And St Andrews Cathedral, or the ruins thereof. When the Reformation came to Scotland, the earliest Reformers were martyred but eventually the Protestant church won the day. The cathedral was torn down by its own parishioners in the 1600s.
