Edinburgh
I was telling you about this a few months ago...thought I'd try again.
So. Edinburgh! We got there in the end, and this is what we saw:
These pictures pretty much entirely fail to do it justice, especially since we got some exquisite views from Edinburgh Castle which were underdocumented (and would have been hard to capture without a snazzy panoramic camera anyway). Edinburgh is one of those cities that's exquisite when you can actually see it (much like San Francisco)--its setting is actually quite similar to San Francisco's, since it's built on the Firth of Forth. Of all the cities we went to this is the one that I think about most.
This rather uncanny-looking building is a World War I memorial; I'm not sure you can tell from the picture, but it was more reminiscent of an attenuated pagoda than any Western building I've seen. It's almost the first thing you see leaving the train station, and in the early morning half-light it was very impressive (and not easy to get a good photograph of, in the dim light).
So. Edinburgh! We got there in the end, and this is what we saw:
These pictures pretty much entirely fail to do it justice, especially since we got some exquisite views from Edinburgh Castle which were underdocumented (and would have been hard to capture without a snazzy panoramic camera anyway). Edinburgh is one of those cities that's exquisite when you can actually see it (much like San Francisco)--its setting is actually quite similar to San Francisco's, since it's built on the Firth of Forth. Of all the cities we went to this is the one that I think about most.
This rather uncanny-looking building is a World War I memorial; I'm not sure you can tell from the picture, but it was more reminiscent of an attenuated pagoda than any Western building I've seen. It's almost the first thing you see leaving the train station, and in the early morning half-light it was very impressive (and not easy to get a good photograph of, in the dim light).
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Wednesday August 6, 2008 at 1:30pm