Thursday, August 5, 2010

Memories of Noggin The Nog

Looking Down The High Street In Edinburgh
First Impressions
The center of Edinburgh is built along a narrow-sided valley that is just a couple of hundred yards across.
It would be romantic if a river ran along the bottom of the valley – it would be the icing on the cake. In fact, there is the railway station with the railway lines snaking away, so it is the glass roof of the station that fills most of the valley bottom.
Along one bank of the valley runs a series of tree-filled parks and behind them and higher up, runs Princes street, the main shopping street. Behind that are the ‘newer’ classical buildings laid out in fine terraces and crescents.
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