Edinburgh, Scotland

I spent the day in Edinburgh, Scotland. I am very impressed.

The city center is very cool. It has a sort of medieval feel to it. There is a large hill/mountain in the center of the town. On the very top of it sits the Edinburgh Castle. To get to the castle I had to walk up a winding cobblestone road that had beautiful buildings lining the streets. In between some of the buildings there were staircases (very high ones) that winded through the alleyways between the buildings so that you could get to the top without walking up via the road. It just seemed like everywhere I went today I met really nice people. Not to knock the rest of Europe, but the folks that I met today seemed very friendly and interested in Americans and interested in people enjoying their time in Scotland. Everyone had a suggestion for a site that I should check out and shared an anecdote about their own travels to the US or their desire to travel there.

So, I managed to check out the castle (from the outside) and walked down the "Royal Mile" and also Princes Street. After that I had to make my way back to my hotel so that I could do some homework and here I am updating my blog instead. I took a few pictures of the city that will do more to convince you of what a nice place this is than I can do in this distracted little blog so I'll be sure to post them ASAP (probably Tuesday).

Time to hit the books.
~Jenn