Know the football colors. Hearts and Hibs play each other occasionally, but have only ever met twice in the Scottish Cup Finals, in and ; Hearts won both matches.
You might hear people talking about haar, which is a Scottish word for the cold mist—a kind of coastal fog—that drifts in from the North Sea, especially during spring and summer, and can blanket the city for days. Edinburgh tends to get more of it than many other places in Britain, because easterly winds from the sea push it over the east coast of Scotland.
Get high in the right places. Most people head to the castle esplanade and the castle itself to look down on the city, but there is an equally good, if not better view, from the roof terrace of the Camera Obscura , just next to it—a science museum and temple to optical illusions and oddities.
Calton Hill is a ridiculously short walk from the East End of Princes Street, and you can see pretty much every corner of the city from up there. There are also great views from indoors: probably the best city view of the Castle is from back room of the Elephant House coffee shop where J. The Tower restaurant on the roof of the National Museum of Scotland has an excellent view and and a little further out, there is a great, wide view of the Castle from Inverleith Park. Leith has a separate identity and soul from the rest of the city, and not all were thrilled when Edinburgh and Leith merged in into the City of Edinburgh.
Shop in Stockbridge. The Royal Mile and Princes Street have plenty of overpriced Scottish souvenirs, ranging from the tasteful to the not. I have to admit I have a soft spot for those kilt towels. Master the urban dictionary. Although the Edinburgh accent is one of the most forgiving to the uninitiated, Scots actually use different words for some things, so a cheat-sheet of terms relevant to city-exploring and imbibing will be useful: A dram or wee dram is a measure of whisky; scran is food; a close or wynd is a minor street, like an alley; loch is lake; a law is a hill; a burn is a stream, and a kirk is a church.
Only 20 minutes outside the city is the striking Forth Rail Bridge, built over the Firth of Forth in And for a more pronounced change of pace, the largest city in Scotland, Glasgow, is only an hour away by train. Glasgow has a different feel, in soul and architecture. If Edinburgh can be twee, small, and staid, Glasgow is the antidote: no-nonsense, sprawling, and boisterous.
Join our newsletter to get exclusives on where our correspondents travel, what they eat, where they stay. Free to sign up. Apr 27 A view over Old Town and the castle on a snowy day. Fleshmarket Close—named for the meat market once located there near a slaughterhouse, is also a shortcut between the Royal Mile and Cockburn Street. An historic Edinburgh distillery is to have its famous scent suppressed by an odour control tower. The North British Distillery's roasted malt smell has given the capital air a distinctive tang since But the famous smell will be consigned to history under a new deal between the environment agency Sepa and the distillery.
The proposal is to build a metre an artificial emissions tower to reduce the distillery's environmental impact. Previous improvements have dampened the once heavy malt smell, but now it is to be eradicated altogether.
Ian Ford, company secretary with the distillery said: "This is just one part of an overall strategy to reduce our impact on the local environment, as we are a major industrial unit close to the city centre. However, some locals were slightly bewildered by the need to put an end to the scent, which can be smelt strongly in the winter months. Show more. Creators McLean, K. Description Auld Reekie emits a plethora of scents and smells; some particular to Edinburgh, some ubiquitous city aromas.
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Answer by Anonymous. I come from Edinburgh. The smell starts as a bread baking smell then gets 'hoppy' as the batch progresses. By the end of the batch it smells vinegary. The cycle repeats on a weekly basis and you end up not noticing it. Google Fountainbridge Brewery. Security code is wrong! Please try again! Question by lanolin 14 Why does the city center of Edinburgh always smell like hops?
Answer by patti The aroma comes from the North British Distillery. Answer by Liz59 Well it smells like hops because of the North British distillery.
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