Day 7 Edinburgh/Water of Leith

Lovely warm partly sunny day, up to 68°. Walked to Dean Village just a little west of the west end, it used to be a mill town on the Water of Leith. Then ambled north to Stockbridge for a detour to the Royal Botanical Garden before continuing up to Leith, a port town where the Royal Yacht Britannia is moored. Skipped a tour of the yacht to wander around before taking the tram back to St Andrew's square in the new town, then slowly strolled through Princes Street gardens back to the west end. Also went to investigate a huge church I spotted this morning - St Mary's Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, built in 1879 so the Anglicans would have a cathedral to worship in. St Giles had become Presbyterian as the national church of Scotland after the Reformation.Læs mere