#auld reekie

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Happy First Day of Spring!

Photo: Edinburgh, Scotland

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Sights & Sounds - Edinburgh on a March Morning

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Vintage travel poster of Edinburgh, Scotland for the Travel Association of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Scottish Tourist Board ca. 1947.  Artwork by Kerry Lee (1902-1988).

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Edinburgh in Snow 

by William Crozier c.1928

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Edinburgh souvenirs—autumn and winter were the loveliest there (I gush a lot about this elsewhere).

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Chambers Street, Edinburgh. 29 Jan 2019

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I have literally no influence on even the smallest section of this website so I don’t know why I’m posting this, except that I really feel that tumblr would love it:

If you’re going to Edinburgh (or already live there), and you like old houses, you might enjoy Gladstone’s Land. It’s one of the oldest houses on the Royal Mile; it’s tall and thin (six storeys above ground) with a forestair, arcaded shopfront and Renaissance painted ceilings; you can visit three floors, or stay for a holiday on one of the others, and there’s an ice cream parlour/coffee shop on the ground floor; and there are also special private tours (for example, a sexual history of Edinburgh) which I really feel would be right up the tumblr history community’s street. 

It doesn’t take very long to go around so it depends how much someone wants to spend like £7 on visiting an elderly Scots tenement but as someone who liked visiting very much, I do feel it gets overlooked and could give people a much better idea of Edinburgh’s history than some of the other stuff on the High Street, a lot of which is aimed at entrapping unfortunate tourists with tartan fiction. 

I mean here’s the wikipedia page so while I’ve not sold it very well, I’d hope to convince at least one person that if you are visiting Edinburgh then you could do worse than add it to your itinerary, maybe as a quick, quiet after-lunch attraction. 

Oh! And they let you touch stuff in there too, even the antiques! I mean, obviously one should be careful handling old items and in most cases I would not even want to touch but in this one they’ve obviously thought about what can withstand it and that definitely made it a bit more relaxed (those with children- a small number on Tumblr I know- take note).