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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tonguez" data-source="post: 9476427" data-attributes="member: 1125">Heres a description I used for an entrance to Edinbrugh"Cresting the final rise on the old coach road, the silhouette of Edinburgh Castle looms dark and foreboding on its craggy perch, its stone walls weathered by centuries of siege and storm. Below it the city spreads out along the jagged ridge of the Royal Mile, a cascade of slate-roofed buildings, jostling for space in the tight confines of its walls. The towering spires and chimneys of the Old Town rise high, twisted and sharp against the northern sky. The tang of coal smoke and the North Sea brine mingles with the damp reek of the city's winding alleys and dirty closes, ancient tenements teetering precariously over the streets below.The volcanic hump of Arthur's Seat rises to the east, its wild grasses and heather patches like the mane of a sleeping dragon watching over the city below. The ordered grid of the New Town extends to the north, its precisely laid terraces a testament to the modern enlightenment values that pervade the era, while the gates of the Old Town lead you along narrow wynds hemmed in like a canyon between towering buildings where laundry flaps like faded banners strung between the narrow closes. The sounds of church bells echo down the street, over the rumbling of wagon wheels on cobblestone, the voices of hawkers calling out their wares, the muttered incantations of street-corner mystics, and the whispered tales of witches tried at the Grassmarket gallows...."<table style='width: 100%'><tr><td></td><td></td></tr></table></blockquote>

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