Edinburgh is a magic and romantic city where narrow and frightening passages and corners live in harmony with huge streets, beautiful gardens and parks, and elegant buildings with big windows without curtains, expecting a bit of sun shine.
One of the highest place is the Castle, located on an extinct volcano, which offers a fantastic view of the city, and whose walls ooze stories and legends about Queens and Kings and the eternal fight between Scottish and English people.
At the end of Royal Mil
e is Holy Roodhouse, the magnificent palace-museum which is today the Queen’s house in Scotland.
Carlton Hill is other high point in the city with important monuments and a fantastic view of Leith, the renovated port with own identity.
Scottish cuisine is not very brilliant, although desserts are excellent, but Edinburgh has a extensive offer in restaurant from other countries, and It would be unforgivable to forget the typical “fish and chips”, eaten walking in the streets or sitting in any park, and the welcoming pubs, the perfect place to enjoy a pint of good beer.
Princes Street is the perfect place for “fashion victims”, where it is possible to visit elegant and famous shops, observe the Castle and listen to bagpipe musicians playing in the street, at the same time. Royal Mile and Victorian Street are other places where it is possible to find malt whiskey, cheese, cashmere and traditional and modern kilts. It is remarkable to observe how proud are Sco
ttish people of this garment. They wear it in weddings and special social events, but nowadays young people tend to wear modern and fashion kilts in daily live.
Edinburgh celebrates every year in the Castle, two special events: The Hogmanay, on the first of January with hundreds of fireworks, and the Edinburgh Military Tattoo, in August, where British and international military bands perform their best.
If you love the bagpipe sound like me, this is the wonderful, spectacular and perfect show.
Celia Polo
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