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# Feeding my Edinburgh nostalgia
- URL: https://werd.io/feeding-my-edinburgh-nostalgia/
- Published: 2024-03-03T16:37:51.000Z
- Updated: 2024-03-03T16:37:51.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

All told, I lived in Edinburgh for nearly a decade between my late teens and early thirties. I went there [to study Computer Science at the University](https://www.ed.ac.uk/informatics), stuck around to work [in the Learning Technology department](https://www.ed.ac.uk/information-services/learning-technology), co-founded [Elgg](https://elgg.org), left for a while, and eventually came back to live with my then-partner. I lived in a student flat in [Old Town](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old%5FTown,%5FEdinburgh), had a house in [The Inch](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%5FInch,%5FEdinburgh), and then later lived in a flat in [Bruntsfield](https://edinburgh.org/neighbourhoods/bruntsfield-morningside/).

I think it’s probably changed a lot, but I miss the anarchic, artistic spirit of the place. Maybe it was because of a certain time in my life, but I felt free in ways that have been hard to come by since: I could be whoever I wanted to be, without judgment. It’s not without its flaws, of course: the weather, for one, the food for another, and by the time I left the first time I was pretty sick of a certain kind of cynical pessimism that permeated the place at the time. But it’s a progressive, lovely place to be, and were it not for some surprise events I might never have left.

All of which has me wanting to check out *[One Day](https://www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/film-and-tv/netflix-one-day-filming-locations-4498508)*, the Netflix show which starts and ends in the city. I was delighted when *Avengers: Infinity War* [showcased Waverley Station and the site of my favorite baked potato shop](https://edinburgh.org/inspire/edinburgh-on-film/avengers-infinity-war/), but I like the idea of the lightness and brightness of the city being showcased somewhere rather than as some dark, gothic backdrop (see also: the endlessly bleak but darkly inventive *Trainspotting*, which I charmingly showed to my parents the day before I headed up there for University).

Which other films and TV shows showcase the beautiful humanity of the place? I’m eager to feed my nostalgia.

![My press pass from the year I was a film reviewer](https://old.werd.io/file/65e4a7f8aae4c44efb039802/thumb.jpg)