Has anyone ever been a tourist in their own city? While I have never necessarily lived in Edinburgh I was born here and grew up less than an hour away. It is my nearest city and therefore I class it as my city. Over the years friends I have met while traveling have either visited Edinburgh or have visited me but regardless the result has been me visiting certain tourist sites. Edinburgh castle is nicer from the outside, some interesting museums but nothing to get excited about. Arthurs Seat is worth walking up for an idea of the the landscape and terrain of the rest of Scotland as well as a pretty spectacular view of the city. The Royal Mile is worth walking up if you want to browse through tacky tourist shops and dodge throngs of foreigners. Edinburgh is largely foreigners these days, most actual Scots having moved to Glasgow long ago. The National Museum of Scotland, I think thats it’s name, is free and has some pretty cool things worth seeing, as is and has the National Portrait Galley. Ultimately what I am saying is that these are a few things you can do which I have done already, but my point is this weekend will be different to all previous times. For this weekend I will be actually staying in an airbnb in Edinburgh, going all out tourist.
My Mum is turning seventy on Monday which is nice, a decent wee achievement so good on her. We have some cousins, aunties and uncles or nieces, sister-in-law and brother from my mothers perspective, visiting and so we’re staying up here too. The point of all this is that while people may do tourist things where they’re from, and yes of course quite often people never explore their locale at all, very rarely do they stay in an actual hotel in their own city and go full on tourist. I’m quite looking forward to it, it will most likely be a lovely treat. Let’s see how many locals I can piss off by being an awful tourist, thats alway fun.
This is probably one of the more boring pieces I have written but I’m tired, its been a crazy couple of days and it will soon be the end of the day and I want to maintain my streak. Does that make this piece a fail. I’m unsure. At some point I may have discipline in action but not discipline in mind if all I am doing is writing a daily piece that is me simply filling space. Do you really care about me spending a weekend in Edinburgh? There are different types of discipline. To be positive though, it is all part of the learning curve because until now I had never thought about the fact there are different types of discipline, different values to what I thought was one thing. Another day, another lesson. Aren’t you just lucky to be going through this with me.
Observations and Misunderstandings 