There's something, well, different about graffiti in Edinburgh... Sure, some of it looks like the same sort of thing you find on abandoned (and not so abandoned) train cars and subway tunnels and back alleys, all swooping puffy letters comprising strange signatures, and so on. There are, once in a while, "Scottish, not British!" efforts, a few others that are clearly intended to address Scottish independence in Gaelic or some variant thereof, but there is also an entirely different trend in Scottish graffiti (I suppose, to be exact, I should say, "Dunediner" graffiti) that is well-represented by the accompanying photo. I'm not sure whether to be impressed, amused, bit sad, or just chipper, but it was worth putting here.
Oh, yes, a significant amount of Edinburgh graffiti is, of course, done in CHALK, because goodness knows paint would really be a bit anti-social.... :) I think I find that to be one of the most unexpected pleasant surprises of all.
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