Visiting Edinbrugh
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- Stugoo
heading up for a couple of days in april,
anything in particular to see?
Fancy a mix of of everything, nice food, but some touristy bits too.cheers!
- ETM0
Can't get more touristy than the Royal Mile and Edinburgh castle.
- ETM0
Also, if you're outdoorsy, hike up Aurthur's seat...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art…
- boobs0
Say "Hi" to my old friend Mags Gerahty when you see her!
- monoboy0
Scottish Parliament, seriously. It's an amazing building.
- Stugoo0
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- kuttyranks0
If you want to see the real Edinburgh, give a tenner to the first person you see down Princess Street with a twitch
- 23kon0
Ive stayed in Edinburgh for about 7-8 years now, before that I stayed in Glasgow for a few years so have had a taste of both.
Personally I prefer Edinburgh for its much more cosmopolitan feel, always chocca with tourists and foreign voices.
Glasgow does have good shops, pubs, clubs and gig venues though.Last year I went on a tour round Edinburgh Castle, impressive building - dont bother with the paid tours unless you like that sort of thing, just wander round yourself at your own pace.
Parliament is well worth doing too - impressive building.
If its a nice day then go for a wander up Arthurs Seat (beside parliament), and you'll get amazing views across edinburgh and towards fife.
Plenty of great places to Eat in Edinburgh.
Also worth firing down to Leith to have some food at the waterfront, you can watch the floaters drift by.Edinburgh is a great city to just wander round and get lost in, especially with a camera.
The city centre is nice, george st with its posh shops, then theres the meadows (large park) for chilling (maybe TOO chilly for april), then theres all the big houses behind the meadows, marchmont, morningside etc - you could go find J K Rowlings house in Morningside.The galleries are well worth seeing, especially the modern art ones if theres something good on. From these galleries you can wander from Dean down to Stockbridge via the waters of leith. Basically a river and a nice park that runs through the city centre.
Stockbridge is a nice area with its own community - like a little town - lots of specialist shops and some good restaurants n bars.
From here you can wander around the new town back up into the city centre.That'd be my reccomendations actually, just plan some nice routes for walks and catch things along the way.
Great exercise too - Edinburgh is so hilly!!!
- 23kon0
and feel privilidged if you see this guy walking along the street
- Stugoo0
cheers 23kon.
I'm from west of glasgow, so Im used to the hills :) my gf wants to see edinburgh and I havent done it since i was little. Shes going to buy a guide so we can do the touristy stuff but as normal she wants to eat in 'real' places and do some non touristy stuff.
My brother also used to live there and has promised some points of interest.
if i see this chap ill be sure to get a pic.
- 5timuli0
Is the Leith Cowboy still around? If you see him give him some "munneyfurrawhisky" from me.
- chossy0
The leith cowboy above is a great character :D, when you walk past him he pretends to draw some guns and pure shoots you he he, as you can see he's not rough or manky, he is just a wee bit mad and likes a laugh :)
- kuttyranks0
What about the black santa that sits outside the old Kwik-fit on Leith Walk. Superb, boys like 7 foot tall
- That guy is fascinating.chossy
- for sure, American I believe as well
Many say he is loaded but I cant see itkuttyranks
- Stugoo0
what is it like to live there? are there any good desgin/build agencies?
- Living here is really good man, I have lived here for 13 years.chossy
- Lived here for 3 years while at Uni, bored now, time to move on soonkuttyranks
