Beautiful Sunday morning in Edinburgh! We were going to walk to Dean Village and then to Stockbridge for the Sunday Market, and then walk all the way back again! Weeeeee! I love a good long walk! And it was such a lovely morning too! I think we might have set off around 8am from our hotel near Waverley Station. We decided to walk through the Princes Street Garden park which was parallel to Princes Street anyway. Walking through the park is always nicer than walking along a road! Above is the view from Ross Fountain inside the park and looking towards Edinburgh Castle at the back. What a view!
The walk started off innocent enough, by us entering into the nearest side road to the park. It was a quieter entrance from the main gate at Princes Street. We were basically walking in general directly after having mentally mapped out the orientation of the city :) This path lead us to more tree views than flower view, but it was still nicer than street view!
It was nice seeing all the different angle of the castle from almost any part of the city. So here we go again, photographing a side view of the castle from the park.
You could also see the lovely buildings of Edinburgh among the flowering trees, and the churches or school towers at the background. All too postcard perfect!
It was still early in the morning, but at some part of the park, people were already starting to gather to soak in the sun. I like that some part of the park has terrace ground where you could just lay there and still get an awesome view. Park seems to be such a big deal here, I guess aided by such lovely weather and cool temperature. If we did this in South East Asia, we would be perspiring and sweaty and getting bitten by ants or mosquitoes!
There were also some bench tables and chairs where you could sit down and eat at near the Ross Fountain. I mean, how wonderful was it to spend a day here with such a beautiful surrounding? Edinburgh people are so lucky! Noted hotels and dine-in are super expensive here, but still, if you were already living here, and there is always home cooked food to fall back on! You could have such a lovely life here!
This was also the first time we actually took time to explore and admire the gardens. The previous time we were here was I think our first day when we were just getting orientated around the New Town area. That Sunday, we had more time, so we took a good look around, especially of all the sculptures that could be found here.
More were dedicated to war. Scotland, such a culture of war in their history. Just last night I was watching a clip on the 100yrs war between England and France, ended only when Joan of Ark died and became the symbol of the resistance of France. It's weird, I don't believe we read about Joan of Ark in our history book. She died at 19! She must have been quite a lady! To inspire a whole country to fight the English!
Anyway, here is another sculpture that reminded me more of Russia than Scotland. Apparently the bear is Polish! And name Wojtek the Bear. You can read more about him
here. I find it interesting that I learn more about the place I've visited more when I blog about it, cause I felt that I should know something about these things when I post about then on my blog. I guess that's a good thing.
So back to the gardens, eventually the path lead us back to Princes Street path stretch, and that was were all the flowers were mainly found. It was the season of tulips and cherry blossom, so it was such a love sight!
I love the shape of tulips. They always looked so plasticky, almost unreal. Perhaps it was because I've only seen fake ones from my country. But here, here they are just found almost everywhere!
The pink ones were especially soft and lovely too. I couldn't get enough of them. I will be going to Scotland again in 2026, but just 1 week later than in 2025. I hope the flowers will still be blooming, and I especially wanted to see the cherry blossom trees tunnel at the Meadow. So I am really keeping my fingers cross that I would be in time :)
Here are some cherry blossom trees, or sakura! How lovely! Ever since I stopped working, I have somehow managed to see sakura almost every year during spring time! I hope to carry on this for as long as I can! The past two years have been in Scotland, and the previous one was in Korea. The year before that was a brief one in Fukuoka at the end of spring. I wonder where next year would lead me :)
A selfie of me with the sakura trees.
And one of us at the Ross Fountain and the Edinburgh Castle :)
It was hard not to fall in love with Edinburgh.
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