This is part two of my Scotland trip- if you haven't already, you should probably go back one post and read part one first, or else you might be a bit confused!
The rest of my week in Edinburgh was a bit more routined than the first few days: every morning, I got on the 49 bus from Portobello to Leith to get to my classes, which were from 9am-12pm. Afterwards, we all had lunch together in the common room before heading out for whichever adventure was planned for that day.
Monday afternoon, we visited the National Museum of Scotland. We got into little groups and had a list of things to find in the museum, and got creative photographing them. The results were hilarious, and I'm gutted that I don't have the photos- maybe I'll put them up in a separate post another time, if I can manage to get my hands on them!
Nevertheless, photos or not the museum was absolutely beautiful. There was a huge, open main hall going up three or four stories, and loads of smaller rooms and corridors surrounded it. The museum had a bunch of different wings each surrounding a different topic, so there is definitely something interesting for everyone.
After the museum, we had a bit of extra time left, so two of my friends and I made a quick stop by Primark. I'd never been before, (even though we have it in Germany too, as I later learned) but had heard a lot of good things, and since even my host mother recommended it to us, we decided to go take a look.
That look turned into nearly an hour of going through racks and trying on clothes, and all three of us left the store with big bags, yet not too badly damaged wallets. I have yet to see just how good the quality of the clothes are, since I haven't had them for too long, but so far, they've made a pretty decent impression on me.
Tuesday was National Art Gallery day. I have to admit, I went into this afternoon with relatively low expectations, seeing as I’ve never really been much of an “Art Person” and assumed I would just be bored for two hours, but on the contrary, I really enjoyed it. It felt so peaceful to walk through big, colorful rooms with high ceilings, and there were sofas and squishy chairs everywhere to sit down in. We had to find various pieces of art, and write down what room they were in or complete drawings of them. I’m absolutely terrible at drawing, so I let my much more talented friend take over that job and instead resigned myself to asking the employees for help when we needed it: a necessity at times, seeing as some of the things we were supposed to be looking for turned out to not actually be in the gallery anymore.
Seeing as we didn’t have anything planned for Wednesday afternoon, two of my best friends and I decided to pay a visit to a place called Camera Obscura. It was six stories of dark mirror mazes, spinning tunnels, dented, twisted or wavy mirrors, and a bunch more cool optical illusions. We had a bunch of fun messing around with everything and trying everything out, and when we got to the very top, we were greeted by an amazing view of Edinburgh and the sun peeking out between the clouds.
My last two nights were by far the best of my trip. Wednesday, I got to do a Ghost Tour, which was so fun. It wasn’t at all scary, like I was expecting, but incredibly entertaining and funny. We walked around Edinburgh for an hour any a half and learned about the pest, medieval laws and punishments and notable criminals, all accompanied by costumes and dramatic acting, and yet again my stomach hurt from laughing when the night was over.
The entire trip was an incredible experience, and I thoroughly enjoyed ever minute of it. I completely fell in love with Edinburgh and can’t wait to got back this summer!
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