Hi, I have decided to go to Edinburagh for a few months..?

Question

I am going tp look for Hotel work there prob waitressing. ctaully prob bar work too cause i might meet more people. I was just wondering whethere there are any areas i should steer clear of, i want to be in the city but I'm not the most street wise person!! thanks, see i just don;t have a clue waht the place is like or what to expect! :-)

Answer 1

Edinburgh is an amazing place, and actually pretty safe.  The only place to really stay away from at night is the Meadows - it can get dead sketchy if you're walking alone or even with another person.  Be sure to visit the Cowgate and the Grassmarket for bar jobs - there are tons of bars and pubs along this row!  As for being street smart, keep your bag close to your body at all times and don't walk alone at night.

PS: Busses usually cost a pound for a ride, but if you're near the middle of the city (around the castle) then you should be able to walk anywhere you really need to go.

Answer 2

If you are planing on staying in a Hostel at all, i 100% recommend the Castle Rock Hostel. It is awesomely priced, Awesome staff, Awesome people. Some of the long termers are a little clique but we were only there a couple days so we didnt have too much time to really get to know anyone. This place is massive though, and RIGHT across the street from the Edinburgh Castle. My friends who were in Edinburgh a Month before, and a month after we were there also stayed there and loved it aswell.

Answer 3

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Edinburgh and the Lothians

Venerable, dramatic EDINBURGH, the showcase capital of Scotland, is a historic, cosmopolitan and cultured city. The setting is wonderfully striking: perched on a series of extinct volcanoes and rocky crags which rise from the generally flat landscape of the Lothians, with the sheltered shoreline of the Firth of Forth to the north. "My own Romantic town", Sir Walter Scott called it, although it was another native author, Robert Louis Stevenson, who perhaps best captured the feel of his "precipitous city", declaring that "No situation could be more commanding for the head of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects."

The centre has two distinct parts, divided by Princes Street Gardens, which run roughly east– west under the shadow of Edinburgh Castle, in the very heart of the city. To the north, the dignified, Grecian-style New Town was immaculately laid out in the eighteenth century, after the announcement of a plan to improve conditions in the city. The Old Town, on the other hand, with its tortuous alleys and tightly packed closes, is unrelentingly medieval, associated in popular imagination with the underworld lore of body snatchers Burke and Hare, and the schizophrenic Deacon Brodie, inspiration for Stevenson's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Indeed, Edinburgh's ability to capture the literary imagination has recently seen it dubbed a World City of Literature by UNESCO, on top of the World Heritage Site status already enjoyed by a large section of the centre including both Old and New towns.

Set on the hill which sweeps down from the fairy-tale Castle to the royal Palace of Holyroodhouse, the Old Town preserves all the key reminders of its role as a historic capital, augmented now by the dramatic new Scottish Parliament building, opposite the palace. Immediately beyond, a tantalizing glimpse of the wild beauty of Scotland's scenery can be had in Holyrood Park, an extensive area of open countryside dominated by Arthur's Seat, the largest and most impressive of the volcanoes.

In August and early September, around a million visitors flock to the city for the Edinburgh Festival, which is in fact a series of separate festivals that make up the largest arts extravaganza in the world. Among Edinburgh's many museums, the exciting National Museum of Scotland houses ten thousand of Scotland's most precious artefacts, while the National Gallery of Scotland and its offshoot, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, house two of Britain's finest collections of paintings.

Beyond the centre, Edinburgh's liveliest area is Leith, the city's medieval port, whose seedy edge is softened by a series of great bars and upmarket seafood restaurants, along with the presence of the former royal yacht Britannia, now open to visitors. The wider rural hinterland of Edinburgh, known as the Lothians, mixes rolling countryside and attractive country towns with some impressive historic ruins.

Highlights

The Old Town The evocative heart of the historic city, with its tenements, closes, courtyards, ghosts and catacombs cheek-by-jowl with many of Scotland's most important buildings.

Edinburgh Castle Perched on an imposing volcanic crag, the castle dominates Scotland's capital, its ancient battlements protecting the Crown Jewels.

Scottish Parliament Enric Miralles' quirky yet thrilling design is a dramatic new presence in Holyrood's royal precinct.

Holyrood Park Wild moors, rocky crags and an 800-foot peak (Arthur's Seat), all slap in the middle of the city.

Museum of Scotland The treasures of Scotland's past housed in a dynamic and superbly conceived building.

Café Royal Circle Bar In a city filled with excellent drinking spots, there are few finer pubs in which to sample a pint of local 80 shilling beer, accompanied by six oysters (once the city's staple food).

The Edinburgh Festival The world's biggest arts festival transforms the city every August: it's bewildering, inspiring, exhausting and endlessly entertaining.



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