29 March 2013
Shopping While in Edinburgh
One of the things I find fun about travelling, is experiencing every day activities like shopping. While in Scotland, I didn't have easy access to grocery stores (on Iona). We had to make the big trip to Oban just to go to Tesco. When I was in Edinburgh, in November, I had one right around the corner...
It reminded me of shopping when I lived in New York. Returning home with full grocery bags to restock the cupboard. I loved experiencing that in Edinburgh...a place I feel so much at home to begin with.
I love walking up and down the aisles of foreign stores, looking at all the labels and (sometimes) the different names of products we have here in the states. It fills me with such glee.
More often than not it makes me angry that I can't get certain things here. :(
The lack of high fructose corn syrup is lovely. And seeing eggs stored on the shelf! The shorter shelf life of snack foods! I love seeing the differences.
It's all another thing I miss.
These are some of the things I made that week in Edinburgh. I bought a few things and made something "new" every day.
XO