[Photos] UK 34 - Aberdeen.
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moonvoiceYou're getting all of Aberdeen in one post. I don't have many photos and sadly, didn't really love Aberdeen. Look, I'm sure it's a great place, a lot of people live there and they can't all be bad. But the time we were there seemed determined to show us every malicious, mean-spirited, rude person there was. From having people spit right at my feet as they walked past me, to getting heavily shouldered while walking, to being honked at for having to turn into the place we were staying at and not going fast enough, the only face Aberdonians showed us was one of intolerance, impatience and gloom.
Aberdeen itself was quite beautiful.
And there were - to be fair - two exceptions to our encounter/s with Aberdonians. The first was a busker who sang beautifully, rough around the edges but with a trickster's gleam to his eye. The second was a couple who were socialising a black labrador puppy, and let us pet her for a time.
That's it.
But yes, hoping to having an entirely different experience one day. After all, a place determined to convert most of their churches into bars and nightclubs is a place I'd like to get to know better.
Many Aberdeens are made of this beautiful grey granite that has a high mica concentration that sparkles beautifully in the sunlight. However, when it's overcast, it...looks somewhat more melancholy, and one of my friends said 'are all these buildings made of cinder blocks?' and I can't unsee it.
But I am quite taken with the grey granite.
I want to write a story about a bookstore like this. Such a shame it was closed.
BIG-GUSHED
What were you doing in a church graveyard Pia? I was patting a puppy.
A church that is actually still a church.
I had to walk up these stairs at a point when I really shouldn't have. And I needed to stop about 10 times while walking up them (okay like three times), but they still invoke a feeling of horror in me.
Looking back once I'd climbed the stairs.
Castle turned bar.
Farewell Aberdeen.
Next we have Hadrian's Wall and Chester's Fort Museum (actually there's no pictures of Hadrian's Wall because I didn't make it far enough to see it at Chester's Fort, but there's a lot of Roman History. Also, I did get to see Hadrian's Wall elsewhere but took no photos and left it alone).
Aberdeen itself was quite beautiful.
And there were - to be fair - two exceptions to our encounter/s with Aberdonians. The first was a busker who sang beautifully, rough around the edges but with a trickster's gleam to his eye. The second was a couple who were socialising a black labrador puppy, and let us pet her for a time.
That's it.
But yes, hoping to having an entirely different experience one day. After all, a place determined to convert most of their churches into bars and nightclubs is a place I'd like to get to know better.
Many Aberdeens are made of this beautiful grey granite that has a high mica concentration that sparkles beautifully in the sunlight. However, when it's overcast, it...looks somewhat more melancholy, and one of my friends said 'are all these buildings made of cinder blocks?' and I can't unsee it.
But I am quite taken with the grey granite.
I want to write a story about a bookstore like this. Such a shame it was closed.
BIG-GUSHED
What were you doing in a church graveyard Pia? I was patting a puppy.
A church that is actually still a church.
I had to walk up these stairs at a point when I really shouldn't have. And I needed to stop about 10 times while walking up them (okay like three times), but they still invoke a feeling of horror in me.
Looking back once I'd climbed the stairs.
Castle turned bar.
Farewell Aberdeen.
Next we have Hadrian's Wall and Chester's Fort Museum (actually there's no pictures of Hadrian's Wall because I didn't make it far enough to see it at Chester's Fort, but there's a lot of Roman History. Also, I did get to see Hadrian's Wall elsewhere but took no photos and left it alone).
