Edinburgh bus tour

No short break should commence without a ditty on the city bus, and this couldn’t be truer where Edinburgh is concerned, for, in a word it could best be described as: steep. On day one, I started at Waverley Bridge and cruised in the big, red open top city bus, and got my first spectacular glimpse of Edinburgh’s Greek inspired neo-classical architecture. The National Gallery building is a work of art in itself and worth stopping off to admire. Edinburgh has a reputation as the ‘Athens of the UK’, and it’s worth finding out why—that’s that’s where your friendly informative headset comes in. Tune in, hop off and hang out is the general ethos, and when you reach the Medieval Old Town you’ll want to do just that for plenty of cosy pubs, where poets muse and people watch, will lure you from your seat (also, it’s breezy up there). Whether your pub crawl leads you to the famous Royal Mile, or you smugly observe those climbing up the cobbled hill from the comfort of the bus, you’ll inevitably end up at Edinburgh Castle.