Who Knew?!

So there's me every day trying to avoid the crackheads on the streets of a capital city, and after being here nearly 18 months, I have finally been up Arthur's Seat! Me and my girlfriend Kerry decided to walk up on Sunday, it was decent weather and we'd been saying that we wanted to do it for ages. 

Leavin' tha hood.

We set off round a much nicer route than I thought (I couldn't be arsed walking down the royal mile yet again) and took an absolutely awesome shortcut which brought us out near Scottish Parliament. There was a Rangers game on at the time at the Hibs ground, christ knows how we managed not to get shanked. I'm not the biggest fan of english football, so Scottish football to me is literally the most ridiculous sport anyway. (Did I mention Scotland aren't good at any sports at all?)

Sneaky shortcut.

It took us about twenty minutes to get there, we traversed one side down to the royal mile, then started the climb up. We definitely took the harder route, we ended up walking up a near vertical shale path (which everyone else seemed to be coming down). So I say we went to the top of Arthur's seat- we didn't. Fear of starvation and a brisk wind meant we got about two-thirds of the way up and let me tell you, coming from Yorkshire I'd expect to find a pub which sells Timmy Taylor's Landlord up there, but we didn't. However the view more than made up for this (and I nicked Kerry's chewits to keep me happy). Got a cracking view of the city and I don't think I realised how small it is! Bless Scotland. Anyway I definitely recommend a trip up there if you've never been, and if you have already, you should go again, it's a decent bit of fresh air! Just not as decent as the Yorkshire dales.