Photos and the City

Tag: Scotland

  • Victoria Street

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    If you´ve seen one picture from Edinburgh it might have been a similar one to this one – Victoria Street seems to be one of the most photographed areas of Edinburgh. It´s curve and colourful shops are just so pittoresque and pictureperfect!

    Victoria Street was built between 1829-34 as part of a series of improvements to the Old Town, with the aim of improving access around the city. Previously, access from the Grassmarket to the Lawnmarket was via the West Bow, a very steeply sloped and narrow lane. The new street was planned to demolish much of the old West Bow, and provide a broad sweeping link to the newly built George IV Bridge. (Victoria Street)

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    View up Victoria Street, and yes there is another street on top of the colourful houses.

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    Around the corner on Grassmarket.

     

  • Dean Village

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    I started my day with having breakfast at the Bluebird café right next to my Airbnb apartment and with a walk to Dean Village in a valley in middle of Edinburgh. A little tranquil oasis on the Water of Leith.

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    View from the Dean Bridge down in the valley (village). It was the center of a successful grain milling area for more than 800 years, there were no less than eleven working mills.

    In the past the village was the centre of the milling of water mills and the remnants of the industry can still be seen today. (Dean Village)

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    Way down..

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  • At night at Castle Rock

    After watching the sun go down behind the Edinburgh Castle I slowly made my way down towards Princes Street, passing cute litte shops, cafés and bars and being greeted by the Scott Monument.

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    You´ll find the largest monument for a writer right here, next to the Princes Street Garden – for the Scottish author Sir Walter Scott. And it is even possible to go inside and climb up to several viewing platforms, but it was already closed for that day. The view from above must be lovely!

    Following Scott´s death a competition was held to design a monument for him, George Meikle Kemp, a self-taught architect, won with his victorian design and the foundation was laid in August 1840 and finished in 1846. Meikle unfortunately drowned on a foggy evening in 1844 in the Union Canal while walking home from the site.

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    Edinburgh´s oldest department store Jenners.

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    Princes Street always busy with buses, people shopping and admiring the view of the castle…

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