Have you ever thought to yourself: Gosh, I really want to go somewhere where I can get lost in giant spaces, ignored by retail employees and take on the graceful pallor of a zombie under harsh florescent lighting...
TA DAAAA!
This "park" is a collection of big box stores - M&S, Boots, Sainsbury's, Homebase, Argos, KFC... you get the idea.
Musings:
1. I have never seen so many big buildings in one place in Edinburgh. Honest to gosh, it's like each store is having a "my store is bigger than your store" battle... half of them don't even need the space they have.
2. I'm amazed that I had NO idea this existed, even though it's a short hop, skip and a jump from my house and i'm oddly proud of that.
3. Everyone who works here is angry at the world... except in Costa... probably because of the caffeine.
4. I generally dislike places like these - I think they are big ol' eyesores and 10x larger than they need to be BUT I begrudgingly admit that it's handy to have some of these places lumped together for big event buys.
5. Especially the giant discount dollar store... I like that one... my soul dies a little just typing that.
I don't like big stores or crowds in general (read my review of Primark... it's a theme) and I want to give this 1-2 stars, but all of my cranky comments aside, I did grab a much needed iphone cord, tracked down an obscure event prop and caffeinated myself while here... so it has its uses. read more