The Athens of the North

My first trip to Edinburgh was in 2007 on returning from Inverness. The video below will give you and idea why this most historical of British cities is called "the Athens of the North"



















Edinburgh, Scotland's capital is for a reserved guy like me the one must see city in Britain. My first time experience of emerging from Edinburgh's Waverly train station and onto Princess street to be awestruck by the uber Gothic Scot memorial was back in 2007; and its history all around, literaly built on a the site of a volcano, its most famous feature being the Edinburgh castle is situated right on one of the several volcanic remnants. The fingers of God have really shaped the Scottish landscape into perhaps one of the most majestic highland regions in the world. The video above is from Claton Hill, the site of another extinct volcano.

The National monument of Claton hill is styled after the Greek Parthenon.