Edinburgh was awesome. It is a lovely city with great views and THE castle. Here is me up in Edinburgh castle after we watched the 1 o' clock gun ceremony. (see what I am doing there!!? Eh? Eh?) That shows the scotts brilliant attitude. Before there were clocks if you needed to give the whole of Edinburgh a point of reference for telling the time, then what better idea than to make a big bloody racket at a specific time of day. Most people however appreciate to know when it is 12 o clock, a nice middle point so to speak. The problem of course is this would make for volley of canon fire which would probably last until 2pm as it takes so long to load the bloody canon. So then you would be left with nothing but a bunch of pissed of Scotts who are deaf and late for work. So what do they do? Stuff it they say let them know when it is 1 o clock !! One shot and we're done. Brilliant. Scares the crap out of you when you first hear it though.
The people in Edinburgh are great. (Didn't get to Glasgow or "the stab capital") The New Years festival, or Hogmanay was wicked except we (being from NZ) assumed we would not be able to drink at the street party and thought drinks would be pricey as, so cunningly smuggled in hip flasks of spirits to secretly drink. We turned up to see pissed people strolling into the street party with ASDA bags FULL of beer....We had forgotten we were in Scotland where drinking is their national sport, and they are good...Very good. Never mind the fireworks display was awesome and we had a good if too sober time. We went to a comedy club to which was ok the Scottish sense of humour is a little different and there was the usual annoying female comedian who thought it was hilarious to make female hygiene jokes...What a surprise. There was a funny moment during the tour of the city that is under Edinburgh - from when they re-built over "the ol plague ridden city" - when we found out that one of the fields where we had enjoyed a nice beer and a chat was where they had buried all the plague victims. Nice.
Also got photos where Renton gets stopped by the car in Trainspotting and well, they were sprinting down the main street at the start of the movie so of course we got photos of that too. Awesome.
All in all a great city and the English are not welcome which is hilarious (sorry Gus)
2 comments:
dude, great to see a pic of you in Europe! I think this is only the second photo I have seen from when you were over there, and it's the first one that actually proves you were "there" and not just in a dinning room somewhere in NZ!
Bring on plenty more photos, I'm well keen to see them!!
Oh don't worry as I said, there are loads more to see!! Even a couple of videos but that is far too complicated for me to handle!!
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