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Scotiana’s Top 10 in Edinburgh – Part 2

(Continued from: Scotiana’s Top 10 in Edinburgh – Part 1 )

6 – Grassmarket

Grassmarket – Edinburgh

We discovered Grassmarket on a Fair Day during the Fringe Festival. A very coloured and cheerful atmosphere indeed ! Most picturesque too with its cobbled streets and crow-stepped gable houses, its old fountain and the […]

The “Fairy Boy Of Leith” on Calton Hill, Edinburgh

On Top Of Salisbury Crags

Hi Mairiuna 🙂 Come and look at the view! Over there, it’s Salisbury Crags and Arthur’s Seat.

Can you see the path climbing up the hill? … look… there are people at the top !

Can’t wait to walk up there, be sure to include it in our […]

Up to Calton Hill with Robert Louis Stevenson !

Calton Hill stairs 2007

The east of new Edinburgh is guarded by a craggy hill, of no great elevation which the town embraces (…)You mount by stairs in a cutting of the rock to find yourself in a field of monuments. (Robert Louis Stevenson – Edinburgh Picturesque Notes – 1878 )

I’m coming […]

Uphill And Downhill Through Edinburgh

Calton Hill

Mairiuna, step into your most comfortable shoes as we are walking up to the top of Calton Hill, my favourite place for fantastic views of the city and let us not forget our camera as there will be magnificent panoramas to capture !

From the heights of Calton Hill (333 feet), […]