I arrived early this morning and didn't bring my Blackberry and wasn't planning to check email or anything while I'm here but it's only midday and I am determined to beat jetlag and willing to do practically anything to stay awake! I read Slouching Toward Bethlehem in its entirety on the plane, slept for a few hours during the flight, arrived in Edinburgh just after dawn in pouring rain that fortunately seems to have cleared up. So far I've had breakfast at the Balmoral, gone to Edinburgh Castle, seen the imperiled Titian at the National Gallery of Scotland, had lunch and my third round of coffee at Fruitmarket Gallery cafe, browsed at Topshop and Boots, and now I am checking into my hotel room and marshaling all of my inner resolve to leave again within 15 minutes. Wish me luck!
You're going to run out of things to do* if you keep this pace up.
xoxoxxoxo
*Well, things that don't involve heroic boozing and/or hooliganism
Posted by: dana | November 27, 2008 at 09:37 AM
True! Am loving it though. Edinburgh is my romantic ideal: handsome, refined, perpetually overcast, easily navigated yet endlessly mysterious. I've been amusing myself, as always; just got back from a poetry reading where I asked if fairy poems are ironic. Guess what? NO. NAE AT ALL. XX, LC
Posted by: Editor | November 27, 2008 at 03:55 PM
Obviously, I agree that Edinburgh is the romantic ideal! So glad you are having a good time. Some cute shops in with the brick-a-brac on The Royal Mile. Also, I love the Scottish store "Anta," which has moved and I think is in the Grassmarket now. Not sure. A book to read while you are there: Ian Banks' "The Crow Road." Good writing and story-telling and very, very Scottish. BBC did an adaptation too, but I've yet to see it.
Posted by: Marie Mockett | November 28, 2008 at 01:24 PM