Scotland: Glasgow and Edinburgh Reflection
Scotland is not “chill”. Even during the super touristy and internationally focused Fringe Festival, Edinburgh managed to shine through in short and concentrated bursts. A guy donning a traffic cone as a hat. Old friends simultaneously smashing their beer pitchers on the ground in joyful exclamation. A somehow soaked man screaming words of racial acceptance into the afternoon air. “I don’t fackin care if yer black or yer white, YOU ARE WELCOME BY ME.” Dogs are encouraged almost anywhere, and locals will actively chase you down to correct the slightly false directions they gave you five minutes earlier. There’s a warmth to Scotland that emanates from the cobble-stone streets and extends to the crooked smiles of its people. I went to a pub in Leith, and thought that everyone there was lifelong friends. Turns out they had just met. Calm, collected dog at Leith's coolest record/book store, Elvis and Shakespeare A Saturday afternoon in Leith During my day t...