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To those of you who advised me to go to Scotland: YOU WERE SO RIGHT. I get it now.<\/p>\n

In order to get there, I had to endure a bout of verbal abuse from a disgruntled airline employee whom I will henceforth remember as Psycho EasyJet Guy, but I made it. My friends greeted me in Edinburgh with a bag of Mini Cheddars<\/a>, and shortly after, there was a homecooked meal and a long sleep on a very comfortable air mattress, and then I fell in love with Scotland.<\/p>\n

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Christophe and Gemma, my friends in Edinburgh, are good walkers. I admire that quality. They might say, Let\u2019s go for a walk<\/span>, and you\u2019ll be out for six hours. We spent an entire long weekend that way.<\/p>\n

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Around midday on Saturday, we walked up Calton Hill<\/a>, stopped for espresso at Artisan Roast<\/a>, and then picked up sandwiches at Broughton Deli<\/a>. I ordered ham, Isle of Mull cheddar, and tomato chutney. It was my first time having chutney on a sandwich, and it will not be my last.<\/p>\n

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We took our sandwiches to the Water of Leith Walkway<\/a>, and the sun came out while we sat on a bench to eat. Then we continued on to Dean Village, where someone\u2019s laundry waved enthusiastically from a line in a courtyard, and beyond that, to the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art<\/a>. (I would like to live, though probably only for a couple of days, in the studio of Eduardo Paolozzi<\/a>. I would open the blinds, even if I got in trouble for it.)<\/p>\n

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We walked.<\/p>\n

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In the early evening, we ducked into the Cumberland<\/a> for a restorative pint. Later, back at home, Gemma made haggis with neeps and tatties<\/a> for dinner. I think she felt silly about trotting out the Scottish national dish for the visiting American, but I wanted to taste it. Christophe made sure that we approached the event with proper solemnity, reading Address to a Haggis<\/a><\/span> over the steaming pots. I cleaned my plate. I was made for Scotland.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve never minded traveling by myself. But what I liked most about this trip, and what I think I will always remember about it, is that most of the time, I wasn\u2019t actually alone. I owe my friends a lot for that.<\/p>\n

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