Ramblings

So, here's the iconic image I know everyone has been waiting for. I took this yesterday while rambling about on the Royal Mile; my sense of pride in not looking like a tourist nearly overcame me, but in the end I really couldn't resist. You know you wouldn't have been able to, either.

In the meantime, nothing terribly exciting has occurred. Mostly, I've been up to rather humdrum, ordinary things such as

finding cutlery and dishes, hunting down sticky notes (you wouldn't believe how hard they are to find), and hunting down buildings (even harder to find). Today I became almost completely lost while trying to make my way from Pollock Halls to the King's Building. It's about a forty minute walk (or it was after already wandering around for two hours, lost) from Old Town, which should be interesting when classes begin and winter descends. There is a phantom shuttle, however, which I must investigate.

In the course of being lost, I did, however, run across this gem in the middle of a residential district:

Pretty, no? It's a cemetery if you couldn't tell, and, by the looks of it, not a terribly well-traveled one. But really quite lovely:

Then, there's always the famous Holyrood Park (home of King Arthur's Seat and the Salisbury Crags - don't worry, there'll be plenty more pictures of this pretty soon):

That's Waverly train station in the foreground, and the eastern part of Old Town in the middleground, by the way.

Then, while wandering down the Royal Mile in the other direction, I found Canongate Kirk:

All in all, I'd say it's a pretty nice place (to put things in a typical British understatement). Except, really, for the Scottish Parliament - that's not one you really want to see.