Lockdown has triggered the embarrassing realisation that I didn’t know my own city of Edinburgh as well as I thought. I have lived here for more than two years, visited all my life and considered myself a local expert. The last three months have questioned this belief. In the city I knew so well I have found new places or seen something new nearly every single day.
A new street, a new mural, a new tree, a new cafe, a new lake….
What this shows is that no matter how well you think you know a place there is always more to see, discover and learn. It also prompts the question that if I don’t even know my own city as well as I thought, how well did I get to know other cities that I have visited around the world?