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ACCOMMODATION
Apex International
Brodies 1
Brodies 2
Castle Rock Hostel
High Street Hostel
Hotel Missoni
Ibis Edinburgh Centre
The Scotsman
Smart City Hostel
Travelodge
Edinburgh Central
The Witchery Apartments
CAFÉS AND RESTAURANTS
Amber Scotch Whisky
Heritage Centre
Café Truva
David Bann's
Vegetarian Restaurant
The Edinburgh Larder
Fruitmarket Gallery Café
11
5
2
8
7
4
6
1
10
9
3
The Grain Store
La Garrigue
Mother India's Café
Mussel Inn
Ondine
Wedgwood the Restaurant
The Witchery by the Castle
10
3
12
1
8
4
7
WAT E R LOO P L AC E
6
5
11
9
2
Calton Old
Burial Ground
E G E N T R
Calton
New
Burial
Ground
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Holyrood
Abbey
CALTO
Dunbar's
Cloe
Garden
John Knox
House/Scottish
Storytelling
Centre
Abbey
Lairds
The People's
Story
(Canongate
Tolbooth)
Canongate
Kirk
Queen's
Gallery
DUNBAR'S
CLOSE
Scottish
Parliament
Palace of
Holyroodhouse
H I G H S T R E E T
Museum of
Edinburgh
Museum of
Childhood
Scottish
Poetry
Library
Holyrood
Park
CLUBS AND LIVE
MUSIC VENUES
Bannermans
The Bongo Club
Cabaret Voltaire
The Caves
Electric Circus
The Liquid Room
Royal Oak
Whistlebinkies
St Cecilia's
Hall
Our Dynamic
Earth
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7
11
1
4
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PUBS AND BARS
Beehive Inn
Blackfriars
Bow Bar
Jolly Judge
Under the Stairs
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6
5
2
12
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200
RY
yards
through this and you encounter a warren of tight little staircases, tiny rooms, creaking
floorboards and peek-hole windows. he finest room, on the first floor immediately
above the arcade, has a marvellous painted ceiling and some fine old dark furniture.
Writers' Museum
Lady Stairs Close, Lawnmarket • Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, also Sun noon-5pm in Aug • Free • T 0131 529 4901, W edinburghmuseums.org.uk
Look out for the arched entranceway to Lady Stair's Close on the north side of the
road, one of a number of attractive courtyards just off the Royal Mile. Within the
seventeenth-century Lady Stair's House is the Writers' Museum , dedicated to Scotland's
three greatest literary lions: Sir Walter Scott, Robert Louis Stevenson and Robert
Burns. he house itself holds as much interest as the slightly lacklustre collection of
portraits, manuscripts and knick-knacks that make up the museum, its tight, winding
stairs and poky, wood-panelled rooms offering a flavour of the medieval Old Town.
The Heart of Midlothian
Parliament Square, High St
he pattern set in the cobblestones near the main entrance to St Giles is known as the
Heart of Midlothian , a nickname for the Edinburgh Tolbooth, which stood on this spot
and was regarded as the heart of the city. he prison attached to the Tolbooth was
immortalized in Sir Walter Scott's novel Heart of Midlothian , and you may still see
locals spitting on the cobblestone heart, a continuation of the tradition of spitting on
the door of the prison to ward off the evil contained therein.
High Kirk of St Giles
High St • May-Sept Mon-Fri 9am-7pm, Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm; Oct-April Mon-Sat 9am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm • Free • T 0131 225
9442, W stgilescathedral.org.uk
he High Kirk of St Giles is the original parish church of medieval Edinburgh, from
where John Knox (see box, p.68) launched and directed the Scottish Reformation.
 
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