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For your advice needs.

I am travelling to Edinburgh/Scotland for the first time ever for my summer vacation.
If any of you have some essential tips or info (where definitely to go, where NOT to go, stuff like that) I'd be really grateful. :D

Arthur's seat is pretty cool. Afternoon tea at the Balmoral is delicious if pricey. Graveyard ghost tour is hugely enjoyable. Highly recommend Panda cocktail bar if it survived the pandemic.

Here you go: https://pandaandsons.com/

It's done up to look like an American barbers. Entrance is through a bookcase inside, and then it's a prohibition era style cocktail bar in the cellars underneath the street. The cocktails are epic too.

wow thanks! that looks amazing :D *puts on list*

As a Weegie, my advice on places to not go is just Edinburgh. If you must go, then make sure you take plenty of money and have a high tolerance for tartan bedecked bullshit.

Anywhere else (near Edinburgh) thats better?
Open to suggestions for day trips

It's cute when people who are from outside the U.S. warn people about overrated tourist spots. My friend, Americans have that shit on steroids. I'm not sure anything the UK has can top our tourist traps and the ridiculous amount of gift shop garbage that's attached to much, much smaller attractions.

Try some haggis pakora. Yes, this is really a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis_pakora

Okay but as a first time visitor, their perspective is likely different from yours. Sometimes the touristy things are fun for people who are tourists. I've been all over Europe and I don't personally think Edinburgh is worse than any other famous European city.

On the contrary, I think Edinburgh is a very pretty and very chill city in comparison. And nobody makes you buy souvenirs.

You can always go protest outside JK rowling's house. Maybe if she is in and not in London, where she pretty much really lives now, she'll get mad enough to tweet about you.

Id rather not spend a fuckton of money only to go protest in front of the house of a person i no longer want to give money, energy or attention.

egg it!!

This has been a fun little website to use to see if there is anything interesting nearby that might not get mentioned when talking to others or looking at top places to hit ---- https://www.atlasobscura.com/

very neat! bookmarked and thank you very much!

I really liked going to see Skara Brae. It's over on the Orkneys. We got a really nice airbnb and since you're in the middle of nowhere, I saw the milky way for the first time.

Don't drive on Skye. When not in town, it's one lane, twisty, and the locals take the speed limit as a suggestion.

I really enjoyed the walking tour of Edinburgh. Four members of my family, including me, and we had a tour guide all to ourselves.

I like museums and historical tours. Some of my favorites from Edinburgh are:

The Real Mary King's Close
https://www.realmarykingsclose.com/
Costumed tour guides show you around a 17th century street preserved beneath modern Edinburgh. (Possible Covid concern: I don't know what ventilation is like since it's all literally underground.)

Surgeons' Hall Museums
https://museum.rcsed.ac.uk/
History of medicine with a focus on how it was practiced in Scotland. Some of the exhibits are a bit gruesome, which may be a DNW or a draw for you, depending on your taste.

National Museum of Scotland
https://www.nms.ac.uk/national-museum-of-scotland/
Excellent general museum exploring art/history/natural history/science. My absolute favorite part is the Millenium Clock (https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/art-and-design/millennium-clock-tower/), a massive, gorgeously grotesque work of art that comes to life every hour when the clock tolls.

Camera Obscura & World of Illusions
https://www.camera-obscura.co.uk/
Museum focused on vision and optical illusion, with a 19th century camera obscura (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera_obscura) on the top floor. imo, most of the exhibits are fun but not necessarily the sort of thing you want to devote precious holiday time in another country to, but the camera obscura is wonderfully memorable. On the other end of the scale, the tunnel pictured on the website homepage is a dizzy delight--I usually walk through it upwards of two dozen times.

Closed at the moment, but may reopen before your trip
Sir Walter Scott Monument
https://www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk/venue/scott-monument
It looks like a regular monument from the outside, but you can climb up it. Lovely Gothic architecture and exciting views.

Lol, Surgeon's Hall was particularly interesting when I was there because there has to be some sort of canteen in the building and the smell was really noticeable. Nothing quite like looking at pickled human remains and tumours while everything around you smells like lunch.

So. Many. Stairs. All over the place in Edinburgh.

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