Oh, Edinburgh, why do I love thee so?
One of the reasons is this - the great architecture. It's fuckin' grand.
All of these photographs were taken from George IV Bridge - they're of buildings on the bridge itself, and those on either side. This is, literally, a 250 foot stretch of road.
NOTE: The Elephant House is included pretty much only for the reason that it's where J.K. Rowling wrote the first Harry Potter. Also, my camera batteries ran out before I could get a picture of the Bedlam Theatre (yet another ex-church).
posted by Hieronymous Anonymous @ 7:13 pm
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Oh man, I'm jealous!
We used to have some fairly impressive buildings here, going back to the 1600's or so. That was before the Great Fire of Eighteen Eighty-Something, though, that left a total of seven buildings standing in town (literally).
So now nearly everything around here is only a little over a century old at most.
Nice pics, I am so very very jealous! If I ever have money, I plan to visit!
Awww, I miss that place so much :(
Wow. Nice pictures and great buildings.
I wwanted to be an architect when I was young. Why, because Mr. Brady was one, that's why!
I thought you liked it for all the rain and cold.
Anyway, nice pictures and buildings. I wish buildings were still built like this, but I suppose it is too expensive. So they throw up a steel building with that crappy stucco like stuff on the outside. So sad.
I don't think that the Elephant House was the cafe where the first Harry Potter was written. It was in fact written in a cafe called Nicholsons which was on South Bridge (Now a Chinese Buffet Restaurant - jast above the black medicine coffee place)
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