The Edinburgh Travel Guide

The largest Arts festival in the world can be difficult to navigate as a first-time visitor.  Walking down the Royal Mile is like completing dry-ski slalom as you try to avoid the hundred or so leaflets being thrust in your face, comedians making a bad joke to get you to come see their show, performers [...]

Edinburgh, Scotland is, as you well know, a pretty big deal in the tourist industry. Although, following behind is, what we consider, the sister of this vibrant city; Reading, England. Now they might be half-sisters, maybe even step-sisters, since the whole English and Scottish heritage separates the two. However, if you look beyond the language [...]

Maybe it’s the extreme unpredictability of Scottish weather that makes Edinburgh guys and gals’ style so eclectic (layers are key) or the fact that most of the year is spent getting dressed in the dark; either way, fashion in Edinburgh scores high in the individual, expressive and occasionally downright wacky style stakes. Here’s a selection [...]

Although Edinburgh’s bustling city centre is laced with monuments and relics of Scotland’s long and illustrious history, there are equally intriguing pieces of history just a stone’s throw away, in nearby Linlithgow. While the true heyday of the small Royal Burgh was admittedly in the days of Scotland’s Stuart Kings and Queens, the town is [...]

I’ll refrain from making a joke about all of the eggs-citing events you might not know about going on Edinburgh for kids and their big kid chaperones, and just provide you with a nice list: (oh, darn it) Puppet-animation festival at Scottish Storytelling Centre Ever-wondered what that snazzy modern-looking building was doing latched on to [...]

Some years back before I had a wife, a family and car of my own, a group of us decided to go to Edinburgh to sample the famous Fringe Festival. In order to keep costs down we decided to hire a car between the three of us, and checked out the car hire comparison sites [...]

When it comes to Edinburgh (or Scotland in General) and mountain biking, you can’t go wrong – Scotland really is an outdoor lover’s paradise. A lot of people make the mistaken impression that you really have to stay indoors to avoid the dreadful and dreary weather, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. You [...]

As the birthplace of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, Alloway is quintessential visiting territory for anyone wishing to experience Scotland’s rich artistic and cultural heritage outside of the capital. Often overshadowed by the larger, historic Ayr in which it’s situated, Alloway is a secret cultural treasure of the West coast of Scotland. The village is [...]

When people think of the north of Scotland, they might picture a rainy, desolate place that not many venture to for fun. Other than seeing Loch Ness and possibly spotting Nessie, what else could there be to do up there? Surprisingly, a lot. It may not be a metropolis like its more southern counterparts, but [...]

If you’re in need of a short break from the hustle-and-bustle of Edinburgh, just hop on a train bound for Stirling: the ancient seat of Scotland’s Kings and Queens of old. Just an hour northeast of Edinburgh, Scotland’s smallest ‘official city’ is quite a lively place for a town of its size – Stirling’s population [...]