Sorry for not writing for a while, but I've been spending this week with one of my absolute favourite people in the universe. This is not an exaggeration, because I've been friends with her since we were born, with our dad's being best friends from uni and despite a lot of the time, living geographically far apart from each other, she is my closest and most treasured (un-blood related) sister who I love to bits. Now she is living in Edinburgh, and now that my exams are finished for the semester at Surrey, it was the perfect opportunity to catch the train up and stay with her and explore the most beautiful city in the world.
I visited Edinburgh when I was twelve years old with my parents when we did a big European holiday. It was the first place we visited and I instantly fell in love with the city and remember saying that I wanted to live there. Almost nine years later, I am once again utterly, completely and madly in love with Edinburgh and it's like I'm twelve all over again and thinking "I want to live here." There is something magical about the place, so it's no wonder JK Rowling found inspiration and wrote Harry Potter here. The buildings all look like small castles, plus there is the castle on the rocky cliff, Arthur's seat and other mountains surrounding the city centre. The alleyways are cobbled and the stores are filled with cute cafes, restaurants, food stores and vintage stores. And another thing that is wonderful about the city is that it isn't big and daunting and you can walk everywhere. Over the past few days, I have walked around exploring the different streets and I'm not even joking, but with each step, I just love the place even more. This probably sounds crazy, but it's as if Edinburgh is my true home, it just suits me so much and I'm seeing it in the middle of winter, which means it's cold and extremely windy and rainy, but that doesn't affect how much I love it. It's insane how much I have acclimatised to the British weather (I think 10 degrees is a warm day).
Some of the places I've seen the past few days have been Carlton Hill, which has a beautiful view of the city; The Royal Mile; Princess Street; the Grass Market (which is a street square and not a literal grass market); climbed Scott's Memorial; went to the Scottish National Museum. Just walking around and going into shops and exploring. Also, since I've gotten here, I've tried deep fried mars bars, which are really nice, as well as Scottish tablets, which is sort of like a sugary fudge thing, and my friend and I are going to try haggis one night too, which I'm really interested in tasting.
I've been welcomed into my friends friendship group, and even though I haven't known them for that long, I already feel like I belong. We all went out last night together and have have been getting dinner together every night, and it's as if I've known them for years, which just makes my visit even more of an incredible experience as well as making me even more determined to come back to Edinburgh soon.
I visited Edinburgh when I was twelve years old with my parents when we did a big European holiday. It was the first place we visited and I instantly fell in love with the city and remember saying that I wanted to live there. Almost nine years later, I am once again utterly, completely and madly in love with Edinburgh and it's like I'm twelve all over again and thinking "I want to live here." There is something magical about the place, so it's no wonder JK Rowling found inspiration and wrote Harry Potter here. The buildings all look like small castles, plus there is the castle on the rocky cliff, Arthur's seat and other mountains surrounding the city centre. The alleyways are cobbled and the stores are filled with cute cafes, restaurants, food stores and vintage stores. And another thing that is wonderful about the city is that it isn't big and daunting and you can walk everywhere. Over the past few days, I have walked around exploring the different streets and I'm not even joking, but with each step, I just love the place even more. This probably sounds crazy, but it's as if Edinburgh is my true home, it just suits me so much and I'm seeing it in the middle of winter, which means it's cold and extremely windy and rainy, but that doesn't affect how much I love it. It's insane how much I have acclimatised to the British weather (I think 10 degrees is a warm day).
I've been welcomed into my friends friendship group, and even though I haven't known them for that long, I already feel like I belong. We all went out last night together and have have been getting dinner together every night, and it's as if I've known them for years, which just makes my visit even more of an incredible experience as well as making me even more determined to come back to Edinburgh soon.
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