Sepideh Karami is an Iranian architect, writer, teacher and researcher whose work brings architecture into domains as diverse as performing arts, literature and geology. Professor of Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, she tells us here about the city where she chose to live and work, with a unique gaze, both near (where it finds itself) and far (from where it came). On her verbal journey through Scotland's capital, Sepideh tells us what she sees, what she deciphers, what she interprets and what she guesses. From buildings to gardens, from the general to the particular, from gestures to objects, from the ground to the sky, the author describes a city made up of many spaces and many times, many speeds and many layers of meaning. At the beginning, it is stated: ‘Edinburgh is the city of getting wet and dry in quick succession.’ And it is as if this climatic antithesis runs through the entire text to teach us how to feel Edinburgh and what happens there.