An annotated skyline of Edinburgh
Nov. 21st, 2024 10:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerFurther to my photo post from earlier today, I mentioned that you couldn't really see the details I liked unless you took a wide strip across the skyline in high-resolution. After all, the original photo I took was 6,448 pixels wide, and the version you got via Instagram a measly 1,440.
So I grabbed the original, stripped out just the skyline, and uploaded two copies. The first has annotations on it, the second doesn't. Click through and then zoom in to see them in all of their glory.
The annotations are to my favourite bits of the skyline:
1) Fettes school. Not that I'm a fan of private schools, but it's a magnificent piece of architecture. Best seen from close up, where it's glorious.
2) Fife. The Kingdom of Fife, to be exact. Which is actually on the other side of the Forth from us.
3) The Firth of Forth. Big wet thing. Has some bridges over it that you might have heard of.
4) Leith. Although that might be Newhaven, to be honest, and the white buildings a bit further round might be Leith. I can only actually tell when a large ship is docked there, visible from the office. Either way around, a nice bit of shoreline, well worth a wander along.
5) Inchkeith Island. Which I've meant to visit for ages and ages. You can do a boat tour out to it. Maybe next summer.
6) North Berwick Law. An almost perfect triangle when seen from Edinburgh, this is a nice chunk of volcanic hill with a (now replica) whale jawbone on top. Somewhere there is a photo of me holding Sophia aloft beneath it.
7) Edinburgh's famous hotel. Newspaper articles will insist that the locals compare it to an ice cream swirl. They do not. (Alas, the domain "jobbie.scot" is now lapsed)
8) The Nelson Monument, atop Calton Hill. From which a ball falls every day at 1pm so that any ships in the docks can set their clocks. Should they be crewed by time travellers, of course.
9) The Balmoral Hotel clock. Famously set to run 3 minutes fast, to make sure you catch your train from the adjacent Waverley station.
10) The tip of the Scott Monument. Looks a lot like a gothic spaceship. Currently surrounded by a Christmas market, including a spinny ride which is taller than it. I assume so that the vomit spreads over a very wide radius,
11) Arthur's Seat. Edinburgh's own extinct volcano. Nice views from the top. In front of it can be seen Salisbury Crags, where Jane and I had our first date.
12) Edinburgh Castle. The most beseiged castle in Great Britain, and one of the most attacked in the world. The large buildings to the back of it are a military garrison, nowadays mostly used for ceremonial purposes and recruitment.
So I grabbed the original, stripped out just the skyline, and uploaded two copies. The first has annotations on it, the second doesn't. Click through and then zoom in to see them in all of their glory.
The annotations are to my favourite bits of the skyline:
1) Fettes school. Not that I'm a fan of private schools, but it's a magnificent piece of architecture. Best seen from close up, where it's glorious.
2) Fife. The Kingdom of Fife, to be exact. Which is actually on the other side of the Forth from us.
3) The Firth of Forth. Big wet thing. Has some bridges over it that you might have heard of.
4) Leith. Although that might be Newhaven, to be honest, and the white buildings a bit further round might be Leith. I can only actually tell when a large ship is docked there, visible from the office. Either way around, a nice bit of shoreline, well worth a wander along.
5) Inchkeith Island. Which I've meant to visit for ages and ages. You can do a boat tour out to it. Maybe next summer.
6) North Berwick Law. An almost perfect triangle when seen from Edinburgh, this is a nice chunk of volcanic hill with a (now replica) whale jawbone on top. Somewhere there is a photo of me holding Sophia aloft beneath it.
7) Edinburgh's famous hotel. Newspaper articles will insist that the locals compare it to an ice cream swirl. They do not. (Alas, the domain "jobbie.scot" is now lapsed)
8) The Nelson Monument, atop Calton Hill. From which a ball falls every day at 1pm so that any ships in the docks can set their clocks. Should they be crewed by time travellers, of course.
9) The Balmoral Hotel clock. Famously set to run 3 minutes fast, to make sure you catch your train from the adjacent Waverley station.
10) The tip of the Scott Monument. Looks a lot like a gothic spaceship. Currently surrounded by a Christmas market, including a spinny ride which is taller than it. I assume so that the vomit spreads over a very wide radius,
11) Arthur's Seat. Edinburgh's own extinct volcano. Nice views from the top. In front of it can be seen Salisbury Crags, where Jane and I had our first date.
12) Edinburgh Castle. The most beseiged castle in Great Britain, and one of the most attacked in the world. The large buildings to the back of it are a military garrison, nowadays mostly used for ceremonial purposes and recruitment.
