Dr Flo's world tour of scotland - day 2

Actually day 3. Won't talk about saturday since it was Gav's stag doo and what happens at the stag, stays at the stag otherwise people get divorced, jailed or both.

Woke up to a grey sky (surprise) and took a walk down the grass market then toward the college of art (magnificient red building), then the old infirmary and down to tollcross. When i was in my first year here, back in 1997, we called tollcross "the blue wooden fence corner", because the RBS building was in construction and the site was fenced by a very tall and long wooden blue fence. There it is for the bit of history.


Speaking of history, today is a great day for me. Now that i'm done abusing my body ingurgitating favrious toxic product, i can go around the city a bit more and my first destination of the day is obvious.

I'm going home.

Home?

Yes, Home. I arrived in scotland the 14 of april 1997. for the next 3 years, i stayed at 23 colinton road, EH105DR. No need to look it up i still remember everything like it was yesterday (0131 447 9639 was the phone number of the payphone in the corridor). Odd enough, given i cannot remember most things. Anyway, I lived in colinton road for 3 years and i fell in love with my neighbourhood. Hopefully that will show in the writings of today.


From tollcross i cut through the meadows. The Meadows is the Central Park of edinburgh, only it's better. You can golf there for free, and the Old Golf Tavern gives you clubs for a small deposit if you don't happen to carry golf clubs in your purse. Thee park also gives you a great view of arthur seat and calton hill, so the camera is happy. At the end of the meadow is bruntsfield garden, and brunstfield place which was my neighborhood. There you can find the coziest block on earth. There is everything, from a post office to a pub to a off licence wine shop, to a framer, a baker, and even a bead shop. All in colourful woodframed shop fronts. this makes the place as alive and cozy as it can be and that was a great part in what made me love this town.

One of the curiousity of brunstfield is the holy corner. at the end of the block, there is a crossroad that as a 4 churches, one on each corner. hence the name holy corner. And just past the corner is the row of houses where i used to live.



Next on that road is Napier Uni's Merchiston campus. I used to study there, but at another campus further down that road, in craiglockhart. Merchiston notable trivia is that it was the home of john napier, inventor of the logarithm (and the "n" in the "ln").

to be continued...