This Japanese garden can be found in the grounds of Lauriston Castle in the leafy Edinburgh suburb of Cramond. The Kyoto Friendship Garden is so zen-like that many locals have […]

This Swedish-owned bar is an Elm Row institution. With high ceilings and huge windows, Joseph Pearce’s is kitted out in a relaxed, bohemian style (a bit like your granny’s front room […]

Forget the hustle and bustle of Princes Street Gardens or even the Meadows – Inverleith Park, just to the north of the city centre and across from the Botanic Gardens, […]

Few people would associate the High Street (for that’s what locals call the Royal Mile) with greenery but behind the towering tenements and down picturesque closes and vennels hide a […]

There can’t be many places in Scotland where you can simultaneously learn German and eat cake, but you can in stylish Bruntsfield bakery, Falko Konditormeister. Germanborn owner, Falko Burkert, is a […]

Edinburgh is awash with book shops and record shops. None, however, are quite like this Leith Walk institution, Elvis Shakespeare. As the name suggests, this unassumingly-fronted shop doubles up as […]

Nestling under the south eastern slopes of Arthur’s Seat, the picturesque village of Duddingston is one of the oldest parts of the city, dating back to the 12th century. There […]

Although just five minutes from Princes Street, Broughton Street isn’t on most tourists’ or shoppers’ radar but to locals, it’s independent shopping heaven! One of the most bohemian and cosmopolitan […]

The Anatomical Museum, which is part of Edinburgh University’s School of Biomedical Sciences and tucked away in Teviot Place, is well worth examining. Opened in 1884, the imposing lobby welcomes […]