In early February, I was really tired from a lot of overtime hours spent working on the head office logistics side of Merlin’s response to the Haiti earthquake. So I decided to take a trip to Edinburgh to visit my friend Vania, who’s studying for her PhD there. The train trip was easy enough, but arrived more than two hours late, after midnight on Friday, February 5th. I had visited Edinburgh with over a hundred fellow students in my first year of university, back in 2002, but those memories are a bit fuzzy now.

On Saturday, Vania and I walked around town, saw a bit of the university, ate delicious food at a pseudo-Swedish restaurant/café, and played guitar hero at my friend Woody’s apartment. It wasn’t amazing weather so I didn’t really take any photos that day.

On Sunday, we went out walking again. This time we really walked a lot. I can’t remember all the places we went, but these are some of the things we saw:

Vania had no idea why I was asking her to stick her tongue out:

A view of Edinburgh:

King Arthur’s Seat:

The lamppost in this photo was rather unfortunately located…

We also walked up to Edinburgh Castle but didn’t pay to go in, since we’d both been in before:

Sunday evening I caught a train back down to London. All in all Edinburgh was a very nice city, and it was really nice to take a weekend off outside of London.