Leith

Highlights: Burns' Statue - Customs House - Malmaison

Edinburgh Bus Tours has created a free downloadable walking guide of Leith with an accompanying map. This had been produced for the Leith Trust; a charity, one of whose aims, is to regenerate Edinburgh's Historic Port and to promote it as a tourist attraction.
This walk comes in two stages and can be done in one go or can be completed in two separate visits. The commentary is educational and entertaining, historic but with a light hearted touch and has something to offer to all ages and all levels of interest. Each walk should take about an hour.
The starting point which is the statue to Queen Victoria at the foot of Leith Walk is easily accessed by any of the following Lothian Buses from the town centre: 7,10,12,14,16,22,25. the cost is £1.50 for a single journey but it could be worth purchasing our Dayticket at £3.50 which will allow you all day travel on any of Lothian Buses's extensive network.
The commentary will guide you on your stroll through Leith, a town that was originally a separate burgh, before it became essentially the dock area, the port of its much larger neighbour, Edinburgh. The route is level walking and apart from two areas, both of which can be diverted around is wheelchair accessible, although some of the cobbled areas maybe not prove an easy ride.

New Town

Highlights: Banking History - St Andrew Square - Jenner's

This walk will take you through the centre of Edinburgh's First Georgian New Town. Geographically the tour will take you along the main street of this first New Town from, St Andrews Square to Charlotte Square. Travelling from East to West following the original ground plan of the architect James Craig.
The starting point which is the gardens in St Andrew Square is easily accessed by many Lothian Buses going to the town centre, the cost is £1.50 for a single journey but it could be worth purchasing our Dayticket at £3, 50 which will allow you all day travel on any of Lothian Buses' extensive network.
This is literally a step by step guide; so enjoy our city with us, and have a native's eye view of this part of the UK's largest urban world heritage site. You will hear of architects and writers, scientists and publishers, you will even hear of how a famous English poet eloped not once but twice to Edinburgh. This is an interactive tour which contains special interest options. These allows you to take the tour at your own pace and to tailor it to your own interests.

Pubs of the Old Town

Highlights include: Ensign Ewart - Deacon Brodies - Halfway House

This Uncle Bob's forever popular Dunedin Discerning Drinkers Download second outing, this has been subtitled an "old town swally" that being a Glaswegian possibly Scottish term for a drinking session. On this trip there will be no pubs from the golden age of the purpose built Palace Pub as we are now in the old town and similarly there are no glorious conversions. The pubs on this trip will be more convential and of course many will be older but none the less interesting.The starting point which is the outside Gladstone's Land in the Lawnmarket is easily accessed by any of the following Lothian Buses 23 and 27 from the town centre, the cost is £1.50 for a single journey but it could be worth purchasing our Dayticket at £3, 50 which will allow you all day travel on any of Lothian Buses' extensive network.You can take a stroll whilst our narrators will tell of a pub that illustrates how this city recognises effort and how fame and reputation are measured and rewarded. You will see a hostelry that was Scotland's pub of the year 2009, not the largest, but apparently the best. To a pub whose sign if it's to be believed, is at worlds end and how it was literally and tragically that, for two young girls, in nineteen seventy seven.