Glaswegians tease Edinburghers that their High Street
is only half one, since buildings only line one side.
But what they don’t say is how extraordinary the views
are from Princes Street as a result. From here you
look onto expansive and decorative public gardens
beneath the mighty basalt cliffs on which Edinburgh’s
Castle stands proud above the rest of the dramatic old
town skyline. Yet many of those on Princes Street look
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the other way, as they’re concerned with chain store
shopping or catching the tram or a train at main train
station Waverley. But it’s not all utility here; the
Scottish National Gallery rewards purposeless
wandering, and December’s huge winter market in the
gardens begins a season of revelry which ends with
Hogmanay, Britain’s largest New Year’s street party.
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