Chapter 265: Water of Life
Johnson pouted and looked around, there was basically no one. It seems that the locals are not interested in this kind of Internet celebrity attractions, and there are not many tourists now, so they should hurry up and leave after eating.
Alice pointed to a short distance away, where Rowling was said to have been sitting at the square table in the middle by the west window. Open the drawer and you can see all kinds of notes left by countless Harry Potter fans who have come here to worship.
Cafes advertise that this is the birthplace of Harry Potter, but it wasn't here that the first part was made. The café only opened in 1995, while the first Harry Potter book was completed in 1995.
Rowling said she was inspired by a train to London in 1990, when she married a Portuguese television journalist and gave birth to a daughter in 1992, but the couple separated just a few months after the birth of her daughter, who was said to be unable to tolerate her husband's domestic violence.
Brought his daughter and the manuscript of Harry Potter to write three chapters to his sister in Edinburgh, without a job and with a baby, he could only live on welfare benefits, and his only hope was to write it well.
At first, she frequented a café owned by her brother-in-law instead of here, and in '95 she submitted Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone to 12 publishers, all of which were rejected until 1996, when she was selected by Bloomsbury.
Perhaps the publication of the first book made Rowling a little more financially well-off, and she took her children to this café with a view of Edinburgh Castle to continue her work. In a later interview, she said that it was a place where her children could sleep peacefully.
Rowling's photos of the place were hung on the wall, and it was evident that the owner was trying to make the place a tourist attraction through publicity, and suddenly understood why the clerks had such terrible service.
What was once a quiet place for children to sleep has now become an attraction for Harry Potter fans from all over the world, and the staff are trying to restore its original tranquility with their performances?
Well, it must be so!
I went to the toilet and looked at the walls full of all kinds of strange signatures, and I was even more firm in my speculation, which is absolutely right.
Even the glass is covered in graffiti, as if it has become a message area for communicating with Harry Potter, especially a passage written in red pen asking Harry Potter: How can we get through this wall?
Opposite seems to be a women's bathroom?
The children can be taught!
When Rowling wrote Harry Potter, she drew inspiration from Scotland, such as the steam train to Hogwarts and the Glencoe Canyon where Hagrid's hut was built, where the magic began.
Leaving the café, SC Johnson prefers the Avengers to Harry Potter, and it is said on the Internet that many scenes are from Edinburgh.
For example, Cockburn Street is a picturesque street where countless people tread the winding stone pavement between the Old Town and the Waverley train station in the heart of Edinburgh. It is here that Scarlet Witch and Surround are attacked by Deathblade and Proxima Centauri in Avengers 3.
Suddenly I find that the fast-food restaurant in the movie showing the news of the attack on New York is just a makeshift setting, but in reality it is a craft workshop called Miss Katie Cupcake, which specializes in all kinds of delicate and cute handmade jewelry.
Back on the Royal Mile, which is also one of the most important filming locations for the fight scenes in The Avengers, the old and bustling streets are lit up by the firelight of the battle on the big screen, turning it into a thrilling arena.
The place where Scarlet Witch landed is the Edinburgh City Hall on the Royal Mile, remember the confession of Scarlet Witch and Vision in front of the window at the beginning of Avengers 3?
“Tell me what you feel?“
“I just feel you.“
At Waverley Station, the ambushed Vision and Scarlet Witch fall from the sky, startling Johnson at the time.
It's also the heroic return of Captain America, who hasn't been seen for a long time since the Civil War, and has a very beautiful co-op with Black Widow and Falcon in the station lobby near Platform 2.
At the beginning of the day, the station's neat rows of glass canopies form a unique landscape, and when night falls, the city is warm and beautiful against the dim lights of the station.
Come to the bar on the sixth floor of the hotel and try authentic Scotch whisky, to say that the liquor sales are the first, but most of them are consumed by our Chinese people, and whisky is the favorite of foreigners.
The word derives from the ancient Gaelic word "uisge beatha", which means eaux-de-vie, and was believed to be the soul of the grain, a golden-like liquid fermented and distilled from the grain.
It's food**,
The more you drink, the younger you get!
The wine comes from the Orkney Islands, Scotland's northernmost archipelago, which is home to two World Heritage sites and the world's only whisky produced in the Arctic Circle, Highnd Park.
I took a glass of Highland whisky and took a sip, which was a bit of a surprise. According to the bartender, the excellent taste is due to the burning fumes of peat, a substance deposited after the death of the plant that emits a nectar aroma that adds color to the highland-made whisky.
During the storage phase, since the Orkney Islands are within the Arctic Circle, the freezing temperature gives it the final temper. It's a bit like a frontier grape, it's hot to death during the day, desperately trying to produce sugar. Cold freezes at night and precipitates directly.
The archipelago was originally a place where birds didn't poop, and even in summer there were no nights, and the yellow sun could still be seen in the middle of the night. This once prohibitive land has become a famous tourist attraction in the north due to the existence of whisky.
When you pour the whisky into your glass and feel the crystal clear water linger in your mouth, the wonderful feeling instantly permeates the whole body, and you can only appreciate the true meaning of pure whisky......
It's a rare trip to taste the whisky of the five major producing regions, mix a small glass of each, and carefully taste it to find that it really has its own flavor. Speyside produces a wide variety of whiskies, and the highland area is divided into four regions: eastern, western, southern and northern highlands due to its large area.
The eastern highlands are sweet, the western ones are seafaring, the southern part is smooth and sweet, and the northern part is more complex. The lowlands have a hint of vanilla and lemon and are fresh on the palate. Eli's whisky has a strong peat aroma......
After the Act of Union of 1707 declared Scotland to belong to Great Britain, the government shamelessly began to tax whisky, a policy that caused many distillers to go into hiding, even fleeing to remote mountainous areas to make moonshine.
As fate would have it, in 1880 there was a devastating outbreak of phylloxera disease in Europe, which spread to several countries and nearly destroyed all the vines. At that time, the international wine market presented a barren and bleak scene, and the drunkard really had no choice, and suddenly found whisky, like a treasure.
In 1920, the United States played Prohibition again, and domestic spirits were hit hard, and because there was no alcohol to drink, many American drunkards turned their eyes to foreign spirits and saw whiskey.
really responded to that sentence: standing in the wind, pigs will fly!