I have been to a lot of cities in Europe, but my absolute favorite is Edinburgh, Scotland. We were in Scotland for 5 days, but we only spent about 2 days in Edinburgh. While I definitely enjoyed our tour of the Scottish Highlands, it would have been amazing to be able to spend those days in Edinburgh. I could have spent days just wandering around the city, browsing and checking out the amazing architecture.
Edinburgh has a rich literary history, and offers several tours and pub crawls with this focus. My favorite was a small shop tucked in one of the side streets on the Royal Mile, featuring old and first editions of nearly every kind of text imaginable. Other than your stereotypical haggis, the food in Edinburgh was rather enjoyable. I’m not usually the biggest fan of soup, but I had it in nearly every restaurant we went to in Scotland, and enjoyed it immensely.
Scotland – The Edinburgh Documentary – Edited Highlights from Hendry on Vimeo.
This video gives a great overview o f Edinburgh, highlighting its history and displaying the medieval royal mile, as well as the Georgian architecture on the other side of the city.
I’ve always wanted to go to Edinburgh… Did you go down into the underground city? I heard some of those tunnels are intense!
By: histmk on 15/04/2010
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I just knew that you would bring up books… but that sounds amazing. A pub crawl and books, I’m in!!
By: Alex D. on 15/04/2010
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