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Originally Posted by Centropolis
i've never been to edinburgh, and it's sort of my surname ancestral power center in a way (my parents have and my fathers and my first/last name are stamped all over the castle war memorial walls plummeting back in time), but i hear that it is sort of a protestant-y fizzle as far as street life compared to say dublin, but i'm sure it is wonderful.
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I visited Edinburgh on a rainy day in December, and in cold, wet weather Edinburgh is the apotheosis of a city as far as I'm concerned. It felt damn near mythical.
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