The Royal Mile
Watercolour and
crayon
©2017 Charlene
Brown
We were very lucky
in our hotel selection in Edinburgh, discovering when we arrived that we had a
great view of the Scott Monument (BTW, almost everyone knows at least two
quotes by Sir Walter Scott – ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we
practice to deceive!’ and ‘Breathes there a man with soul so dead, Who never to
himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!’ – although some of us may
have thought they were Shakespeare…) And
the Scott Monument was just far enough to our left so as not to obscure any of
the Royal Mile!
I thought this
painting was so close to the real thing, that I tried right-clicking on it and
searching Google for the image. The ‘visually similar images’ Google found were
Pecs in Hungary, New York City, Wroclaw in Poland, Pacific City (in the
Crackdown3 computer game, I think), Philadelphia, Atlanta, Quebec City and
Buenos Aires. Google did not find my painting similar to Edinburgh however.
Below is a picture of us on Victoria Street, below Edinburgh Castle. This colorful location is said to be one of the inspirations for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books. Google thinks it looks like Copenhagen, Liverpool, Dublin, Istanbul, London and (Yes!) Victoria Street in Edinburgh.
Below is a picture of us on Victoria Street, below Edinburgh Castle. This colorful location is said to be one of the inspirations for Diagon Alley in the Harry Potter books. Google thinks it looks like Copenhagen, Liverpool, Dublin, Istanbul, London and (Yes!) Victoria Street in Edinburgh.
