From Rose Street we strolled down to Princes Street which was fairly mobbed but I managed to get a few photographs from there.
This is just the usual view of the castle. I suppose when you’ve seen something from an early age then it’s inevitable that you get blase about it. I was on an airport bus years ago coming back from Germany and there were tourists on the bus whose jaws actually dropped when they saw the castle in the middle of the city.
I like these buildings, I’m not even sure what they are but they always remind me of a German fairy tale. You can see them better when the trees have lost their leaves.
This one is of a part of the National Gallery of Scotland.
Then we walked back to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, taking the route through the city instead of the scenic way. The park land in front of the gallery has been landscaped by the American architect Charles Jencks and looks really lovely.
The autumn trees looked really beautiful reflected in the water.
When you see something every day it does become pretty mundane, but it is gorgeous to someone confronted with ugly strip malls (I don’t like urban sprawl, which is what we seem to have where I live). You still have phone booths? Pay phones have all but disappeared here! I guess it’s assumed we all have cell phones.
Danielle,
I know what you mean, the only good thing about cities are the libraries and galleries/museums. I’m a green hills and trees person, it’s just unfortunate that I live so close to the sea now which is always freezing and usually grey.
Even small children have what we call mobile phones nowadays but they have kept a lot of phone booths, I suppose they’ll eventually disappear. You hardly ever see them being used and whenever I do see someone in one I tend to think that they don’t want the call to be logged on a network!