Showing posts with label edinburgh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label edinburgh. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Several Non-Dramatic Sketches of Trip to Edinburgh, November 2012 including, but not limited to, Angela’s best lines


Setting: The Hub, ground floor, on a couch
Characters: Angela, Kelsey, Lily, Boy in suit
Scene: Boy in suit and tie walking by, sees Kelsey lying down on the couch with scarf over face
  • Boy: somebody had too much fun
  • A & L: ...Yeah
  • K: No
  • -silence-
  • Boy: Where are you guys from?
  • L: We all go to Irvine.
  • A: Where are you from?
  • Boy: I go to Galway.
  • L: In Ireland--
  • A: Where’s that?
  • Boy: That’s in Ireland. West Coast.
  • L: Is it in the countryside?
  • Boy: Not really. If you go outside the city you see the hills and green and...
  • A: Do you see cows?
  • Boy: Yeah, lot of cows--
  • A & Boy: and sheep!
  • Boy: There are so many sheep there. Almost nothing else.
  • A: Did you see...um...ducks?
  • K: -gargles beneath the scarf covering her face-


Setting: Outside the Hub, waiting for bus
Characters: Angela, Lily
Scene: late at night, after dinner/dance, in the cold in dresses
  • L: -shivers violently-
  • A: so this is how it’s going to feel when I’m a hobo


Setting: Every place we visited
Characters: Kelsey
Scene: misc.
  • K: I love meat.
  • K: I love dogs.


Setting: Irrelevant/I forgot
Characters: Angela, Lily, Kelsey
Scene: I FORGOT
  • K: I’m going to die young.
  • A: You’re going to die with a barbecue rib and a Sprite in your hand


Setting: Ground-floor, Ivy Guest House
Characters: Lily, Kelsey, stranger
Scene: Lily is getting ready to shower shortly after checking in
  • L: I’m going to shower
  • K: k
  • L: -walks to bathroom, sets things down, prepares, and can’t turn water on-
  • S: -tries to open door loudly and several times-
  • L: -puts things back on and runs back to room defeated-
  • K: -looks up from computer-
  • L: someone tried to get into the bathroom while I was in there
  • L: and I couldn’t turn the water on
  • L: -cries silently-


Setting: everywhere
Characters: Angela
Scene: misc.
  • A: Sorry! I’m sorry!
  • Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha


Setting: everywhere
Characters: Angela and Lily
Scene: misc.
  • A: I am going to be an old cat lady with lots of cats
  • L: I love cats
  • A: I’m going to have a lot of them when I’m old
  • L: I love cats
  • A: When we’re old cat ladies wanna move in together and live in Edinburgh?
  • L: Yeah



Setting: on couch, long after Boy in suit has left
Characters: Kelsey, Lily, Angela
Scene: Kelsey and Lily gang up on Angela for asking about ducks
  • L: -laughing uncontrollably-
  • K: Did you see DUCKS?
  • A: Why did I ask about ducks? What made me think of ducks?
  • L: -laughing uncontrollably-
  • A: I think I thought of food, and then I thought of ducks.
  • L: -laughing uncontrollably-
  • K: That doesn’t make sense!
  • A: We do have ducks at home...ehehehehehehehehheheheh
  • K: I’m going to ask you that every time you come back from some place. After you go to the store-- ‘Hey, Angela...did you see ducks?’ and when you come back from the shower-- ‘Hey, Angela...did you see any ducks?”
  • A: I--
  • K: We have ducks at home, they have nothing to do with Ireland--
  • A: We see sheep at home, too--
  • L: Only at fairs. And they small, skinny, creepy sheep.
  • -silence, semi-drunk laughter from A&L-
  • K: Did you see any ducks?

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pictures of trip to edinburgh, 8 nov-11 nov 2012

watching sunrise at railway station, thurs

leaving norwich railway station, early thursday morning





Newcastle, Tyne and Ware, North East England
Berwick upon Tweed, Northumberland, northernmost town in England





River Tweed


Ivy Guest House, Edinburgh, Scotland



My friend Angela took pictures of everything

Kelsey & Cafe Nero








St Giles' Cathedral

Old Town, Edinburgh




The Writer's Museum, Edinburgh





We found these at a "fun-house" type place's gift shop

Old Town Weaving Factory, or, The Tartan Mill, Edinburgh


Edinburgh Castle


view from the castle




 
more castle


more views from castle





kelsey and angela











:D








I discovered panorama on my phone--this is looking out with the castle at my back






dinner at The Hub with UCEAP saturday night

tea with kelsey sunday midday




Sir Walter Scott Traditional Tea Room at Romanes & Paterson


cream tea~


I stared out the window at the park so much that Kelsey offered to go sit there
for a while. These are the views: