Edinburgh

Last week, I went to Edinburgh with Thomas to discover this famous city and enjoy Scottish country.
Let's go back onto this 3-days trip.

Border of Old Town

Edinburgh's Castle

1st day:


Edinburgh Castel: We visited the Edinburgh Castel in this afternoon.The castel of Edinburgh is an impressive monument. When we arrive in the city, we can see this chateau, perched on a hill of cliffs which served as ramparts in the medieval time. We when entered this monument, we were able to visit a little gallery dedicated to the place of Scotland during wars. It was very interesting to concentrate on the evolution of clothes and weapons.


After that, we visited the wars prisons where enemies were kept. This place is dirty and still smell death.
It was shocking to see the horrible conditions they were living in.
Another thing concerning the castel is the beautiful view that we had on all the city.

View of the Castle

Thomas in the war jails of the Castle

Old Town: After this visit, we went to the Old Town and we had a drink in a pub. The ciry of Edinburgh is built of two "towns" New town (the more recent one) and Old Town, a medieval area were streets are small and not very bright... It is such a beautiful place, you can see very small streets, dark and dead were you can imagine how was the medieval life.

Royal Mile - Old Town

Border of New town

2nd day:


New Town: During the 2nd day, we went to New town, to have shopping and to walk on the new streets. We walked on Princes Street and George Street, the two biggest streets.

National Galleries of Scotland

National Galleries of Scotland: We visited also the National Galleries of Scotland where we were able to admire beautiful scottish painters, retracing all the paint story of Scotland. On the first floor, there was an exhibition of french impressionistes. Van Gogh, Manet, Monet, Seurat and others famous french painters were exposed. This gallery is such a beautiful and culturally rich one. We had a very good time there.





Le Petit Paris: To have dinner, we went to a french restaurant which was quite "cliché". Called "le Petit Paris", this restaurant offers only 10 meals and very very french meals as Burguignon Beef. We tasted it, it was delicious but the atmosphere there was very special and stressful. The prices were very expensive and I am not sure it gives a good image of french cuisine.

3rd day:

Arthur's Seat: In the morning, we did some sport because we went to Arthur's Seat. The city of Edinburgh have two particularities: it has a castel and a volcano! Arthur's Seat is the summit of the old volcano that erupted 365 billion years later. We had a walk just to admire the wonderful view we had of all the city. We walked half an hour and we seated to take photos of the Queen Palace, situated just under the mountain, and of the city.

View of the City

Holyrood Palace

Meadow Park

After that, we had lunch in a typical pub and we bought some whisky because it is a Scottish's speciality.

Meadow Park: The afternoon, we had a rest on a park much more beautiful that Cambridge's ones, well flowered and full of students.




To sum up, these 3 days were exciting and we discovered an uncommon city where I really wish to live if I had to choose another Erasmus place to do my semester (even if I loooove Cambridge very much).