Edinburgh is really mysterious, enigmatic and mysterious. Sometimes even an eerie!
Located in the north of Moscow, between
mountains and
ocean. quite expensive, but at the expense of relaxed and somehow more natural and nekomersializiran compared with
London, which is pretty impressive given that the
city is only 450 thousand
people and is
visited by more than 13 million tourists
year (second in attendance in Britain after
London). In town you can find ancient history, a large
castle, a lot of whiskey, several
Scottish bagpipes, cashmere scarves in
Scottish tartan, widely outstretched hands of beggars, narrow streets and hairy cows ... Here are a few memories of the
Scottish capital, which we hope you stocked dochetete to this rather long post (click here for some suitable background music)
Option 1. Arrival by plane at the airport. You can take a taxi for 15 GBP one way or the Airlink bus for 6-way GBP. We chose the bus and we were impressed: in addition to being incredibly comfortable, has leather seats and free Wi-Fi throughout the trip (so it is with some of the coach in
Scotland). The bus is non-stop, day travel on every 5-10 minutes and arrives at Central Station to Waverley Station in 40 minutes.
Option 2. Approach. We strongly recommend that if you have time to look around the city - jump to a whiskey distillery, or climb high mountains, see Craigmillar
Castle (well-preserved medieval castle), Forth Bridge (2,5-mile bridge), Linlithgow ( home village of Queen of
Scots) and, of course, Loch Ness lake and its adjacent monster. Buses savvy will give you, because we did not have much time ...
Option 3. Arriving by train (Do not get me hope for the BDZ prices more expensive than aircraft). In this case, you have exactly the Waverley
Station.
Option 4. Arrive by water ... Well, then all you have no idea how to get to
Central Station.
Anyway, at one point, leads you to
Waverley. It is located on a former lake Nor Loch, which was drained in 1759 due to the awful stench. As you guessed, it was caused by the fact that the lake was used for disposal of effluents and waste, and drowning of witches (hence hardly have guessed, but history remembers more than 300 officially registered cases). Today the site of Loch Nor is the central station, the beautiful gardens of Princes Street (writing is so because of missing time with an apostrophe in "Prince's"), Royal
Scottish Academy and
National Gallery of Art (with pictures telling the story of
Scotland). North of the station is the new part of town to the south will have to climb to the old part. To help you with most places, and prepared a map ... highlighted in blue are visited (some - very quickly, others - in more detail), and solid white-gray we failed, but it may interest you:
If you are on Princes Street, you could climb a 60-foot monument to Scott, Gothic monument to Sir Walter Scott. Once you get tired of climbing gardens of Princes Street are a great place to vacation.
If you went to England and Wales will have noticed that instead of brick buildings across Edinburgh are built of stone and look like small castles. On
Princes Street have most of the shops,
Princes Mall, a if you continue to the northeast - and a shopping center Saint James (inside a post and if you want to send cards). The shopping - there. If you have to go shopping, go west to Church St. John or visit the royal botanical gardens in the north. But most sites have in the south.
As in
England and
Scotland, we noticed that most attractions are paid precisely to make money from
tourists with a huge dose of facts and fictional storyline commercialized. However, free museums and sights are really valuable.
Museum on the Mound is a typical example of a place where free will admire the first surviving
Scottish bill, one of the first shares and what they look like one million pounds. Also you can remove the insurance policy in the XIX century, and to unlock the safe and collect the prize inside if you answer three questions correctly (read carefully!). We (as you can see in the picture above) we, thus very proud. In the museum shop and sell rare British coins. From there you share less than 10 minutes walk to
Castle (The
Castle)
The
castle dates back to at least the XII century and is the most visited landmark in
Edinburgh. Queues are miles, so we strongly recommend that you purchase a ticket online from the official site of the castle. Entrance ticket is 13 GBP, which includes a walk among the rich collection of weapons and the ability to glimpse the royal crown in a small room filled with hundreds of
tourists. At least the view of the city is worth a shop of the
castle is one of the most expensive for
tourists (both can be enjoyed without a ticket). If you walk in the castle, do it at noon. And the crowds are greatest, of course, but you can see a shot from a cannon. Shot is made exactly at 13 pm each day, thereby verifying once ships are clocks. Even if you do not see it, I will surely hear it, so do not be startled!
Because the drains in
Edinburgh was built from wood, the capital of
Scotland and plague diseases have long been torturing and even tough guys smash. That's why last drank whiskey along with water, particularly for disinfection ...
In the homeland of whiskey, of course there is the Museum of whiskey. Against 12 GBP will put in a barrel and you down to learn the secrets of distillation craft whiskeys, its history, and view a collection of over 3,500 bottles ... you completely free to enter and explore the museum shop, where to buy jam from berries, mountain honey, small collection of souvenir bottles or tasting, as well as 58-year whiskey modest price of 12,000 pounds.
Left of the Royal Mile (coming from the
castle) are tartan shop of "
Scottish" cashmere and wool (Made in China) and the interesting museum of optical illusions
Saint Giles
Cathedral is a wonderful place to relax and paused a few minutes (after Rome ever discovered that cathedrals are a great place to relax and admire the architectural masterpieces). In almost black stones can guess that the building was built a long time ago (854 years) but the incredible sound of the body will find that you natselili one of the five services (daily).
Rather had to delve before you realize that the author of "Harry Potter" JK Rowling was in fact in more than a cafe while writing the first part of the book. Therefore could easily be shoved into one of the cafes around the Blackfriar's Street and feel the ghostly atmosphere-magician. It seems that the most serious contender should, however café is The Elephant's House, overlooking the cemetery. Because we will have another opportunity, let me except tea and coffee you recommend: Haggis (haggis) -
Scottish goodies bahur of lamb, oatmeal, onions and spices, sweet Scottish oveseni (oatcakes) and rolls (butter bread), sold out
Europe, but have
Scottish ...
