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Issue 7 - The magic is still there

Scotland Magazine Issue 7

Scotland Magazine Issue 7
March 2003

 

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The magic is still there

Editor DOMINIC ROSKROW renews his love affair with Edinburgh

The magic is still there (Issue 7)

Over the years, it has been my custom to travel to Edinburgh in a positive and happy mood and to depart sadly, knowing that I might not be back for months.

For my first visit to the capital as Editor of Scotland Magazine, however, those feelings were strangely reversed, for several reasons.

One of the most exciting things about this job was the prospect of being able to visit Edinburgh and Glasgow regularly; I adore them both, for very different reasons. I love the grittiness and honesty of Glasgow, its passion, its pubs, its grassroots politics and its football.

But I love Edinburgh a fraction more; it has, for many years, been my favourite city in the world, and, like a good whisky, it never fails to live up to my expectations. Its back streets and alleys, pregnant with menacing history, murder and romance, fire the imagination; its restaurants, shops, art galleries and museums feed the culture bug in me many times over.

On this occasion, my journey north was less happy. Partially as I was facing a cheese tasting at the other end (see page 76), but mainly as my visit came soon after the appalling fire that ravaged Cowgate. How many of you, the world over, watched in shock and disbelief as the flames ate into history not just for hours, but days? And how many of you wondered, as I did, how such a disaster could happen?

The fire serves to remind us that as historical as Edinburgh is, it has also become one of Europe's most progressive urban centres. People have moved ba...

 

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