While congratulating ourselves on how brave and savvy we felt for jumping into unfamiliar public transit (thank you, Google Maps, for your excellent data), we enjoyed a top notch view of Edinburgh.
After one or the other of us had exclaimed some variant of “it looks just like in Harry Potter!” I had the epiphany that, by golly, they made it that way in the movies on purpose. Duh.
Art imitates life and we sometimes forget that, until life experiences remind us of the truth. Soon enough we were enjoying the sights on their own merits, not in comparison to some fictional ideal. It takes time to fully inhabit a new place, to cease viewing it through the filter of preconceived notions.
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