Edinburgh, Scotland

I traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland for a weekend. I had never heard of this city before a few weeks before I went there. I had no idea what to expect. The city definitely has a bigger city feel than Dublin does. The city sits in a valley surrounded by mountains which makes views of the city pretty easy to get by just climbing up one of the nearby mountains. People are bustling around the city everywhere and the buildings are taller than in Dublin. We stayed in a small bed and breakfast 3-4 miles outside of the city which was definitely a bad idea. Although taxi rides were cheaper than in Dublin the fact that they use pounds made it around the same price. The people in Scotland reminded me a lot of the people in Ireland. The nightlife n Edinburgh is pretty good, but I prefer Dublin over it even though I only got a sample of Scotland. There is not a place that compares to Temple Bar so its difficult for them to compete. The drinks are much cheaper than in Dublin, but again it is in pounds so it is still almost even. We took a 400 mile all day tour of pretty much everything in Scotland. The landscape is incredible. Huge mountains going up higher than the clouds with lakes in almost every valley. Beautiful. I got to see the Loch Ness Monster Lake which was something that I have always wanted to experience. The city surrounding the lake is a very small town, but it is very funny because they have all this tourism off of a picture that no one knows if it is actually real. They even have a fake loch ness monster in the water just to make it more touristy. To me it is a hoax, but it is nice to believe that there is something lurking beneath the water. The countryside of Scotland is pretty much empty. Every now and then there are castles that have been filmed in movies or shows which are very beautiful. I got to see a lot of Scotland in a very short time so I feel that I accomplished the area. Overall, I give Edinburgh, Scotland a 7.5/10 because of the lacking of city and the greatness of the terrain outside the city.