Day 19: Edinburgh

Today was our first day off here, and it was spent working on thesis… :-)

I woke up at about 8:30 and worked for a couple hours before heading into town to walk around. We were looking for an outdoor store and hoping the trip would only take about an hour, however, we accidently pasted it and walked way farther…causing about a 4-hour trip into town. It was fun walking around though. The whole city is very cool…very mid-evilish. Not a bad place to be lost in. We even ended up in a garden below the Edinburgh Castle, and that is the coolest view I have seen of it so far.

But that about sums up my day… thesis and a walk around Edinburgh. One plus is that while we were out, I got a Starbucks mug that says Edinburgh on it. I have gotten one from every major city we have been to so far, except Brussels.

For lunch we went to Pret-A-Manger, which I LOVE. Their food is so good. That is definitely one store/restaurant the U.S. needs to invest in. If we had a Marks and Spencer’s and a Pret-A-Manger at home, I would spend all my money buying food there. Although Europe has no good candy (even their skittles are gross), it has much better take-away (to-go) options than we do.