Our last weekend in Scotland and Courtney and I were severely behind on souvenirs. We got up bright and early to journey to the Royal Mile aka tourist town. Despite getting there at a normal hour the streets were packed. We did our best but in three hours bout about four items each. The merchandise was the same in every store and priced a little higher than you would expect. Later I found out that the Royal Mile is a sore subject with locals, they hate it just as much as us. It used to be filled with specialty shops, "the real Scottish stuff" as Marion Williams (a guest lecturer put it) but now a single entrepreneur owns 1/3 of the property :( I suppose there's a market for that "rubbish" I just wish it would move to the suburbs!
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