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Before going I didn’t do much research about Edinburgh, I like being surprised and I really love walking around a city and seeing what I can find. One thing that was at the top of list of things to do though was Camera Obscura. I’ve heard suuuuch amazing things about it. There’s six floors and each one is themed and it’s so.much.fun. My favourite was the floor I took these photo on, it also had a mirror maze and every time I found the exit I walked back the other way because it was so much fun and I didn’t want it to end.  

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I know that Edinburgh has a good music scene, and we stumbled upon a couple of independent record stores. I’ve just got a vinyl player and my collection is slowly growing so I bought the new Bon Iver album as a little souvenir of the trip! From there we headed for some food and ended up watching a gig before winding our way down all the little lanes (and hills) of the city back to our hotel to get some sleep!!

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From Camera Obscura we went walking. Edinburgh is beautiful, it’s such an old city and the architecture is gorgeous. Both these photos are of the road leading up to the castle and it’s full of little shops and places to eat.

#ad Our time in Edinburgh came to an end in the late afternoon and we caught the train back to London. It was a super busy train and the girl sitting next to me watched my videos. I really would love to come back and spend longer in the city, it’s so sooooo beautiful and the history and creative scene make it such a lively place!Shout out to Danone Light & Free for giving us the experience, Rachel and I had so much fun, so much laughter. It’s really lovely to take a couple days out of the norm and go somewhere you’ve never been before. Going to new places is something I want to do a lot this year, so I’ve started off well! Who knows where I’ll go next :) I made a Spotify playlist for the trip, songs that Rachel and I looove, check it out here po.st/SarahClose

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Day 2 we woke up super early because we wanted to get as much stuff done as possible. We returned to the old part of the town and checked out the castle, which was sooooo cool. The great hall there was built over 500 years ago!! I always find it hard to grasp that something can actually be that old and has stood for such a lengthy period of time. mad. We spent hours at the castle seeing everything it had on offer.

St Margaret’s Chapel is there, which is still in use today. Someone told us that it’s looked after by the Guild of Margarets, a group of women who are all called Margaret, and if you share the same name then you can marry there for free! haha!

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I was super fortunate a couple of weeks ago to take a spontaneous trip to Edinburgh- somewhere I’ve wanted to visit for a long time! Danone Light & Free gave me the opportunity to go and the night before we went I surprised my friend Rachel with the news. We got up vvv early one day to begin the almost 5 hour train journey and arrived in the city in the afternoon. We only had two days there, so we packed pretty light (haha, get it, Light & Free) and prepared ourselves for the cold. It actually wasn’t that cold… and the sun shone the entire time!

I’m going to be posting all my photos from Edinburgh on here, I’ve just got a new camera so I snapped like crazy and am so excited to share! Imma link all the posts together so that you can follow the story of our trip :)

I made a Spotify playlist for our trip to play in the hotel room, just some feel good, in the moment tunes. Check em out here!  po.st/SarahClose

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Once we left the castle we didn’t have much time left before we had to catch our train home back to London. We almost, almost went to a cat cafe which we found but Rachel is allergic and we couldn’t find somewhere to buy antihistamines. So we did what we know best and walked haha! With our limited time we stuck around the area of the castle and checked out all the little shops around Grassmarket and the uni.