Blogs from Houston, Renfrewshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe

Edinburgh was amazing! I spent the day there on the 27th, and took almost twice as many photos as I did in London. The shopping was fabulous, the buildings were amazing, the sights were worth paying the fares to see, and I could have spent days and days there happy as a clam. There's two sides to the city, divided neatly by the train station and rails. The New City, as it is misleadingly called, is a beautiful area, central of which lay some neatly organised streets arranged in a rectangular shape with two gardens/squares near either end. Rather indicative of what the Scots are like, I think. Very neat and organised and but still beautiful. The whole thing was designed and built in the 17th century, so you can just imagine all the amazing ... read more