Name: A Bookish Week in My Life in Scotland
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Mum and I travelled up to Edinburgh on the Caledonia sleeper train, which is an overnight train.

And they had this little club cart where you could go and get tea and drink.

I know I've been raving about this for years.

The Caledonian sleeper journey of a night time.

There's going to be the lowlands, loads of greenery.

The train left at 11.30, so we got into our pyjamas and I chose a book to read.

And when we woke up the next morning, we were in Scotland.

We got a taxi to the hotel. We were staying at the Kimpton.

We are now here in Edinburgh and we've just checked into the room and it's so nice.

Like, this hotel is stunning. So beautifully decorated.

So, mum is just looking over the itinerary.

This is the room. There are these beautiful pictures here.

There are just so many nice little unique...

Oh my gosh, look! They've got an HG Wells book here.

I had a pumpkin spice cold brew, which was really good.

And we just drank our coffees whilst walking around the city.

So we were just walking along and we spotted this ginormous monument.

And it turns out that this is one of the largest monuments dedicated to any writer in all of the world.

And it's to Sir Walter Scott, who is of course one of the greatest Scottish writers.

So we're going to go round and have a look.

Sir Walter Scott was a greatly revered novelist, poet and historian.

And according to Henry Coburn, Scotland never owed so much to one man.

Since he reignited an appreciation for Scottish life and culture.

His books were read and enjoyed all over the world.

And Goath, who was funnily enough one of Scott's favourite writers, called him a genius who does not have an equal.

We went to Urban Angel for brunch, which had loads of very good vegan and vegetarian options.

We ended up going for this hummus and chickpeas on toast, which was amazing.

So we headed up this staircase to this courtyard where the Writers' Museum was.

And on the paving stones were engraved these quotes from great Scottish writers.

I care to live only to entice people to look at nature's wonders.

They had rooms dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott and Robert Burns.

And we spent most time in the Walter Scott room.

So these are things from Walter Scott's writing desk.

And look, there's a little candlestick holder and stuff there.

Still got some of the feather left, which is incredible.

And I think here we've got, oh, it's a silver letter seal.

My dear, be a good man, be virtuous, be religious, be a good man.

Nothing else will give you any comfort when you come to Lyon.

If you know me, you know that I can't resist the library.

And they had this really cool exhibition on, which was about pen names.

Oh, and I was just taking some notes of things that I found interesting in my notebook, wherever we went.

We also did a little bit of shopping this day.

We found some really great vintage shops, actually.

Most of the locations we were going to were totally literary, though.

Mum and I are currently in Canongate Kirkyard, which is a cemetery and church.

And this apparently is the churchyard which inspired Charles Dickens when he was writing A Christmas Carol.

Dickens frequently visited Edinburgh, and he got the name for Scrooge on a gravestone in this churchyard.

The name on this gravestone was Ebenezer Lemmick's Scrooge.

And on the gravestone, it described Scrooge as a meal man.

But Dickens read this as mean man, and this is what inspired him to create Scrooge.

The gravestone is sadly lost now, though, so we weren't able to see it.

And I went for an iced oat milk dirty chai latte, which I've never tried before.

This was a bit too sweet for me, so I think next time I'd ask for it without sweetener, but I think I'd like it otherwise.

So we're just going to walk to the bookshop now, which two different people have recommended actually.

We were quite tired then, so we headed back to the hotel and got ready for dinner.

We ate at Baba, which was in the Kimpton Hotel, and it was all mezze food, loads of flatbreads and hummus and salads, and it was just delicious.

And also the decor, again, is so well done.

It's got a lot of flowers, and it's got a lot of flowers, and it's got a lot of flowers, and it's got a lot of flowers, and it's got a lot of flowers, and it's got a lot of flowers, and it's got a lot of flowers, and also the decor, again, is so wonderfully vintage.

After dinner, we went for a walk, and as you can see, the sky was just such a gorgeous colour.

But we got back to the room quite early, at about 8.30, because we were just so tired from the whole day.

It was like mezze platters, and we've walked away with some good ideas of recipes to try at home.

And now we're just going on a walk, and it's lit up so, so beautifully.

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