Shopping on Princes Street

Natalie and I spent a day trekking up and down Princes Street and doing some shopping. We needed to get a cell phone and I desperately needed a raincoat. We headed to Trespass which is a side street that connects Princes and George street. They were having a huge sale and everything was 50 percent off. I ended up getting a decently priced raincoat for only twenty pounds. It's purple and super nice. Natalie got a fleece that is really soft.

We also stopped in a few shoe stores. Everything was fifty percent off in almost every store. I suspect it was because it was the end of June and everyone was probably getting ready for new stock. We also stopped in Top Shop, which I believe takes Kate Moss' designs. One just more recently opened up in New York City a few years ago but they are very popular in Europe. It reminds me of an H&M. The boys and girls clothes were both on different floors. Natalie got a cool knitted shirt. I was wondering why they were selling so many summer type clothes since it is never really that warm here.

Shopping is not one of my favorite things to do but it was fun to venture into stores that you do not typically see in the U.S.

Thistle Pub

It was cool when we were walking around New Town with Tawny because I had not really explored there before. When she took us on our walking tour she kept pointing out all of these cool places to go and eat or shop and I was getting frantic trying to remember all of them. She took us down an alley way, well it was not quite an alley way but a back street in between Princes and Georges Street. The street was a very long name and I just remember it began with the word Thistle in there somewhere.

Anyways, a few of us decided to pop in there for a drink after our field trip. It was small, but fun for one drink. It was about average price and the beer there tasted good. I just had a Belhavens. The coolest part about this pub though was the pub dog! His name was Carson and he definitely had some pit bull in him and I do not know what else. He would just climb up on the bench next to your or put his head in your lap. He was really friendly. He hung out with us the while we had our drinks there.

There was also a group of older men there visiting Edinburgh. They were really funny. We asked them to take a picture of us and they told us they knew we were Americans because we had such white teeth. One of them also kept returning his beer because it was too cloudy.

The best part about this pub was that it was different than any other pub I've been in so far.