One walks everywhere in Edinburgh. It's close enough together to walk (assuming decent leg health) and too traffic-heavy to drive which means walking is quicker than the bus. Decent leg health is a requirement as the city is built on the side of a dead volcano. (And I would recommend you listen to lots of tapes of DT as himself to cultivate Scottish accents for yourselves for emergency use, otherwise you may find lots of salespersons' eyes light up at the prospect of selling scotch/shortbread/heather honey/frightful tartan items that no Scottish person owns to the American Tourist Couple :)
I'm pretty sure Cardiff is much smaller, and definitely smaller than Birmingham. All the cool stuff in Cardiff (Welsh Assembly, Millennium venues, Doctor Who/Torchwood) only developed over the last 10-12 years, until the mid-1990s it was known for being a rugby-lover's paradise and not much more.
My interest in Cardiff was pretty much Torchwood/Who-based anyway, although I'm sure there's some awesome museums and castles.
If this actually happens, we'd be looking at late some of 2010, so hopefully he'll have enough time to get himself in shape, although as he's mentioned a few times, there are no more "good" legs. :(
Feh, Edinburgh? If you're going to visit Scotland, you want to come to Glasgow.
*is massively biased*
I miss Safeway. They got taken over by Morrisons here, and it's just not the same :( They've stopped doing this gorgeous pizza sauce I used to get all the time (On pita bread with mozarella. Om nom nom)
That's made me think - have you seen Billy Connolly's World Tour of Scotland? It's mid-1990s so there's stuff out of date (eg it was very pre-Scottish Parliament) but it's good for comparing Glasgow with Edinburgh. And it will make you want to visit everywhere in Scotland :)
I actually did. My friend Carol Ann, a lovely Glasswegian lass that I was working with at the time, lend me the VHS of the whole thing. Perhaps the seeds for this idea were planted then, although hubby has always loved Irish/Celtic music. We went to Dublin and Cork on our previous trip to the UK in 2001, so this time around it's Scotland's turn. IF any of this actually happens.
If you need guidance on Cardiff-based shenanigans, you may look no further. I can point you in the direction of the Who/Torchwood stuff, but also recommend some other things to see/places to go/stuff to eat/somewhere to lay your head. I've also spent a fair amount of time in Edinburgh [eight days of intensive touristing over three years] so I'm happy to chip in my two penn'orth there too.
Thanks for any guidance you can render. If the starts to seem like a possible reality instead of an Earl Grey induced pipe-dream, I'll check back for solid travel tips.
Hubby was not especially enthused about Cardiff, but if I can't get the two week necessary for a whole London/Ediburgh excursion than Cardiff might be back in play.
I can understand why Edinburgh would be more appealing than Cardiff. I love my city, but there are others that would be more worthy on a short trip to the UK and Edinburgh is definitely one of them. It's an amazing city, the like of which you wouldn't find anywhere else in the world.
If you make vague plans more tangible, you know where I am.
Strange thing with Edinburgh is that everything is uphill. There is definitely more up than down, even if you walk the same route in both directions, there's still more up than down. Nice place though.
I thought it was just me, but my mate who lived in Edinburgh for a while said the hills always seemed to swap round, usually when she was walking on them.
The roads that never change their minds are the ones that climb up the old volcano cone, they're almost as bad to walk down as up as they're so steep! The Mound and Cockburn street are the ones I remember best.
Comments 21
I'm pretty sure Cardiff is much smaller, and definitely smaller than Birmingham. All the cool stuff in Cardiff (Welsh Assembly, Millennium venues, Doctor Who/Torchwood) only developed over the last 10-12 years, until the mid-1990s it was known for being a rugby-lover's paradise and not much more.
Reply
If this actually happens, we'd be looking at late some of 2010, so hopefully he'll have enough time to get himself in shape, although as he's mentioned a few times, there are no more "good" legs. :(
Reply
*is massively biased*
I miss Safeway. They got taken over by Morrisons here, and it's just not the same :( They've stopped doing this gorgeous pizza sauce I used to get all the time (On pita bread with mozarella. Om nom nom)
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Reply
Hubby was not especially enthused about Cardiff, but if I can't get the two week necessary for a whole London/Ediburgh excursion than Cardiff might be back in play.
This is all incredibly hypothetical right now.
Reply
If you make vague plans more tangible, you know where I am.
Reply
Reply
Reply
The roads that never change their minds are the ones that climb up the old volcano cone, they're almost as bad to walk down as up as they're so steep! The Mound and Cockburn street are the ones I remember best.
Reply
Finally watched Children Of Earth.
WOW!
Reply
Reply
Leave a comment