Mental map, one month in.

Mental map, one month in.

I’ve been in Edinburgh a month already! Really? Really. So I thought it might be time to draw a mental map. The trees here don’t look anything like that. And I didn’t know how to draw the building we live in without taking up the entire lower-third of the map, so you get a Monopoly house instead. It took a lot of willpower not to include the tram works, but I didn’t have an iPad stylus setting for “fubar”. The good news is that my map of the immediate vicinity is very clear. I can now navigate between all places of importance, which is a list that coincides with the places I will find tea. Additional good news: next week I start my volunteer position at the National Trust for Scotland, which means I will be reliant on public...

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