Royal mile shopping, whiskey shops, overpriced cashmere. It’s Thursday in Edinburgh and the day is clear and crisp. We bundled up extra and decided to check out all the cute local shops. After thoroughly exhausting our bank accounts we found the Jolly Judge in Close near the royal mile and just around the corner from our hostel for some beers and then Fiddlers Arm pub in Grassmarket and snuggled in for some beer, cider and deep fried Scottish appetizers. Haggis, and other oddities were as expected. We are traveling with two others and they have been great fun. We grabbed some snacks and headed back to the hostel for some drunken cards against humanity. At about 1am we ran out in our pjs for a “quick shot” from the pub next door only to find out it was closed.. Before we knew it we had walked 4 blocks in search of an open pub and ended up in a hard rock/screamo club dancing and head banging with a neon sign above our heads that said “opium fucking rocks”. After we had our fill we stumbled back our our hostel were we played pool until 5am.
