A storefront in Stockbridge
Friends are visiting Edinburgh this summer so here’s some finds, as requested, from my trip to Scotland in 2009:
– My English pals and I stayed with friends in their 1820 stone house overlooking the sea in the pretty suburb of Portobello – a town where Findlay’s butcher shop boasts that it has world’s best haggis. We didn’t try it.
– Not far from the Royal Mile and Edinburgh Castle is a great take-away pork sandwich place called Oink (“delicious scottish hog roast rolls”) that vegetarians will NOT enjoy since the pork is carved from a pig laid out in the front window. OINK is on Victoria Street in the old Grassmarket area http://www.grassmarket.net/grassmarkethistory.asp which is worth a wander.
– There’s a good pub, the Bailie, that we went to for lunch (good mussels in a whiskey/bacon sauce and sticky toffee pudding) in an off-the-beaten track neighborhood with nice little boutiques and galleries called Stockbridge.
– From Stockbridge we stumbled upon a pretty country walkway along a small river – right in the city – the Water of Leith that led to lovely old Dean Village and then to the Museum of Modern Art.
(photo: Dean Village seen from the East side of the Water of Leith)
One of many Signposts
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