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1018 reviews 532 travel blogs 472 photos Attraction Type:
Historic walking area, Street, Scenic/historic walking area
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Edinburgh baby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
London was cool...and we had a great time. Edinburgh is a screaming kilted scotsman of cool on crystal meth wielding a claymore! Just so there's no confusion, I LOVE EDINBURGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The hotel has been simply marvelous. We've been staying at the Capital Residences on Pilrig Street. It's not far from downtown and right on the bus … -
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Edinburgh Scoootland, haggis and black sheep
So we are now in Edinburgh. Arrived yesterday in a little zip zip rental car (we have rented it for 2 weeks), named the 'Italian Stallion'. And NO we didn't name it that, Avis did.
Yesterday we drove from Clive and Tino's in Chamberlain Street and headed directly...through a country (England for those who are just as geographically inept as I … -
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The Royal Mile
Breakfast at the hotel introduced Alan to haggis. I abstained. While he claims it wasn't bad, I don't think he ate it again during our stay. He also insisted on returning to the room to brush his teeth because everything he ate afterwards had a bit of haggis flavoring.
Having taken in much of Edinburgh's New Town yesterday, our plan for … -
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Bonny Scotland
After a week at home after Ireland we set off around the remainder of the Great British Isles. First port of call......Scotland and Edinburgh. The weather we'd been accustomed to since we set foot in the UK continued and followed us north. Meaning our first day in Edinburgh was pretty Much wiped out....we did manage a brisk walk in the rain / sleet …
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Auld Reekie AKA Edinburgh
What an eventful week up in Edinburgh lots of great times, great sights & delicious treats. So we decided to get a train from Glasgow up to Edinburgh seeing it was a nice day and to take in the sights from the windows of the train and with a break down of the points ahead on the rail tracks an extra 20 minutes of standstill sights were taken in …
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Great Scots!
... . The Parliament building is a unique design with lots of wood, glass, metal and not a single right angle! We strolled the Royal Mile, had great pub food, toured the Royal Galleries and saw a really great student chamber music concert at St. Giles ...
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Scotland in winter - a new home. Brrr.
... it to London. More on that later... Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland, the traditionally troublesome northern part of the United Kingdom, and now home to a reasonably new Scottish Parliament. 600,000 of Scotland's 5 million or so inhabitants live ...
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Goodbye Dundee and Sam. Back to the open road...
... the Royal Mile which our hostel was on. This city is alot bigger than i thought and so very very gothic. Especially the Royal mile. Depressing to look at, but absolutely magnificent at the same time. They say Prauge is gothic, but nothing compared to ...
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Edinburgh!!!!
... bigger than imagined. There is about 500,000 people not including the hordes of tourists. Once we got settled we walked the "royal mile". The main street that is inundated with countless pubs and even more tourist traps of tours and keepsake shops. It ...
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Hidden pies within a fortress
... we woke up and went for a bit of a walk around Edinburgh. First up we walked right up the entire length of the Royal Mile to where the Edinburgh Castle is. We walked to the left of the castle first up and there's this huge wall with a little ...
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Bagpipes, Kilts and Stout
... ridges of the rocky hill called Castle Rock. We climbed uphill on a wide cobblestone street, called the Royal Mile, filled with tiny souvenir shops selling kilts or every plaid color imaginable. There were ...
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Edinburgh - Whiskey and Kilts Anyone.
... the first area that needs to be explored! The weather is very sunny and dry, but there is a cool, fresh wind coming up the Royal Mile from the North Sea. The wind is refreshing and helps to keep me going as the caffine intake effect is starting to wear ...
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Och, Aye, Haggis Man
... I was finally finishing off of my set of 5 nations home grounds. Saturday, we arrived and walked the city. Did one half of the Royal Mile, the down hill bit and ended up at Holyrood Palace. We did consider going in, but it was very expensive, so we ...
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Life on the Fringe
... of the month, hoping that the weather would improve in the weeks ahead. Which, fortunately, it did manage to do. The Royal Mile is the focal point of activities and is the pick up point for tickets with short-term pre-bookings, meaning you ...
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A Castle on a Volcano
... and the traffic is organized...or unorganized rather. Finally we found a spot and climbed up the Royal Mile towards Edinburgh Castle. It was only 10am but the queue to buy entrance tickets was already spiralling down the ...
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- St. Giles Cathedral
- Deacon Brodie's Tavern
- Parliament House
- DOM
- Writers' Museum
- Lady Stairs House
- The Ensign Ewart
- Gladstone's Land
- National Library of Scotland
- Highland Experience Tours
- Loch Ness Discovery Centre
- 3D Loch Ness Experience
- Malt Shovel
- I.J. Mellis Cheesemonger
- Stirling's Old Town Jail
- Cadies & Witchery Tours
- Stills Gallery
- Edinburgh Dungeon
- Collective Gallery
- Sneaky Pete's