Edinburgh: An Old Town with a New Beginning
I’ve been living in Edinburgh for two weeks now, after spending most of the last year living in the south of Spain. It’s not a completely unfamiliar place for me to move to, I used to live here in 2013 and 2014. This time though, I’ve moved under very different circumstances, returning to join a fiancĂ© that I definitely didn’t have the last time I was here. Friends have left. Groups have changed. I’m living in an area I barely spent any time in before, and it’s familiar and completely different at the same time. These musings were written in my first few days living in Edinburgh… My skin feels drier. The air is palpably different, although I couldn’t tell you how. I think I’ve forgotten Spanish already, although it’s only been a day. Edinburgh is like another lifetime in another world. It’s grey, but not depressing. The blue sky peeks through the clouds, the chimney stacks of old buildings reach to meet it. I spot Art...