Sunday, October 17, 2004

Gothic Edinburgh

Had a great day yesterday, Helgi and Ragna looked after the kids whilst we were invited to a dinner party by three of Halldórs chinese classmates. Finding the place was an adventure in itself, it turned out to be typically gothic Edinburghian (hogwartsy). First we had to follow the royal mile nearly up to the Castle then turn down this tiny obscure alleyway called Milnes court, follow it´s meandering pathway underneath the ancient brick houses of Edinburgh and then as it seemed there was no way out turn left... I don´t know why but I somehow felt we should have tapped certain stones in the right order and said an incantation not merely rung the doorbell....

Edinburgh is just such an amazing city, I love the old part where taking a different road might take one into a cemetary where many of the toombstones are actually affixed to the walls of houses and then curtained windows inbetween.
Such a bizarre conglomeration of old and new, gothic and cute. Slightly surreal as well, when you are right smack in the centre of a city, yet in this amazingingly quiet and serene churchyard and can actually observe the flow of tourists and students walking on the other side of these tiny stone cottages through the panelled windows oblivious to the eeriness beyond....

The dinner turned out to be excellent, the people great and the conversation most invigorating ;-) An intelligent artistic multicultural group and chinese food, the perfect combo!!!

Why does one get stressed about meeting new people anyway, it nearly always goes well!! No matter what one wears or wether one put on the mascara or not...
And on the occasions that one isn´t liked .. well they´re normally not worth the bother anyway ...

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