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Dean Village

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(Last Updated On: 2nd September 2019) For a relatively small town, Edinburgh does have its fair share of hustle and bustle. Sometimes you just want to escape and have yourself some quiet, calm, nature therapy. Well, you can actually do that without even leaving the city because Edinburgh has the beautiful Dean Village. Built up along the banks of Edinburgh’s own...
(Last Updated On: 15th August 2020) I must confess, I’m not much of a chippy fan. Mostly because I don’t eat fish, but also because if I ever find myself thinking “Phwoar, I could murder a big old box of battered and deep fried mystery meat” it invariably means I can’t remember the horrendously embarrassing things I did the night...
(Last Updated On: 2nd September 2019) As great as the Edinburgh Fringe is, if you’re here for a festival holiday you’re going to reach ‘peak show’ at some point and find yourself really in need of a day off from all that comedy, theatre, dance, music, beer, food and frivolity. Here’s my suggestions for how to get away from it all for a...

Edinburgh Cheap Eats

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(Last Updated On: 12th October 2019) Good quality, reasonably priced food. The fact that it’s taken me so long to supply details of where to get exactly that in Edinburgh is terrible (Muriel). A thousand apologies. Consider that fixed with this big old list below. Meals Under £10 The Pitt Edinburgh’s best street food all conveniently in the one spot. The Pitt, is a...
(Last Updated On: 19th July 2019) Edinburgh very rightly has a reputation as the greatest festival city in the world. There’s so many of them there’s only one month of the year you could visit and not find one. Considering how busy August is though, it’s no wonder September is festival free. Never mind the organisers, the whole town probably...

Late Night Edinburgh

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(Last Updated On: 26th June 2019) There’s a lot about the UK that’s hard for a new arrival to learn. Like all those different dialects, the fact that most dishes will have chili and how “Oh no, that’s perfectly fine” really means “You are an idiot”. But to me, by far the strangest difference is how early everything shuts. About 85...
(Last Updated On: 15th June 2019)   Looking at the picture above, is the first word that springs to your mind to describe this tunnel ‘innocent’? Yeah… me neither. It actually looks more like it should be called  the ‘I Wouldn’t Want To Be Walking Through Here Alone At Night‘ Tunnel. But back when it was built, in 1831, this tunnel...

The Scotsman Steps

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(Last Updated On: 24th May 2019) Pssst… wanna know a secret shortcut? Well, I’ll tell you, but first I’ll digress a little. To some they’re just a convenient way to get from Old Town to New Town, but to me, Edinburgh’s Scotsman Steps are the perfect metaphor of the city’s two distinct halves. Perhaps I’m channelling too much Downton Abbey with...
(Last Updated On: 8th May 2019) Edinburgh is traditionally said to have been built on seven hills. Walk round the town for an hour or so and you might wonder if they didn’t mean seven hundred. Not many flat bits is there? While it might test your fitness somewhat, the advantage of all those steep inclines is that just about...
(Last Updated On: 30th January 2020) A little while ago I did a list of typical food and drink to try when visiting Scotland. Following on from that, here’s a list that’ll help you to take what you learnt there and delve a bit deeper into the Scottish gastronomical psyche, or as I like to call it, pretend you’re a...