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East Neuk
• Cambo Gardens local café
• Kingsbarns Distillery 1h Dream to Dram tour
• restaurants: Haar Asian seafood, Newport, Cellar’s Scot seafood/lamb/pork/beef, Anstruther Fish Bar (deep-fried haddock, dressed crab, battered prawns), Ship Inn seafood/steak
• farm markets: Balgove Larder barbecue lunch, Bowhouse art/craft, Pillars of Hercules vegetarian
- p. 182-185

Beyond St Andrew’s
• East Neuk
• Fife Coastal Path
• Elie Chainwalk
• St Monan’s fisherfolk church
• Craig Millar seafood (16 West End)
• Pittenweem cave chapel & antique shops
• restaurants: Haar Asian seafood, Newport, Cellar’s Scot seafood/lamb/pork/beef
• photographable Crail Harbour
• Reilly Shellfish lobster
• Cambo Gardens local café
• Kingsbarns Distillery
- p. 182-184

St Andrew’s
• Chariots of Fire’s West Sands Beach
• Old Course’s Sunday footpath walks & British Golf Museum
• eats: Seafood Ristorante’s panoramic glass walls, Tailend’s Arbroath fish & chips, Mitchell’s Deli eggs Benedict, Eat Walk St Andrew’s
• Cathedral’s St Rule’s Tower & 8c museum sarcophagus
• Castle
• University’s Wardlaw Museum
• Toppings bookstore
- p. 178-181

Beyond Stirling
• Doune Castle: Monty Python
• Culross: Abbey, Palace painted chamber & garden
• Falkirk Wheel
• Castle Campbell 30min circular walk
• Dunfermline: Abbey, Palace, Pittencrieff Park, Andrew Carnegie Birthplace Museum
- p. 169-170

Stirling
• drinks: BrewDog’s 15 craft beers, oldest Settle Inn, Curly Coo’s 130 single-malt whiskys
• eats: Bréa (seafood, haggis, burgers), Birds & Bees pub food
- p. 166-167

Stirling
• Old Town: 16c cobblestone, Argyll’s Lodging & Cowane’s Hospital’s architecture, 15c Old Bridge stone arches, Old Town Jail
• Back Walk: reformation’s Star Pyramid, 17c octagon earthwork garden King’s Knot, Beheading Stone
• Castle: exhibition, Great Kitchens, Chapel Royal, Great Hall, Royal tapestries’ unicorn hunt, Heads Gallery
• Wallace Monument
• Battle of Bannockburn
- p. 164-166

Plans
• Day trip: St Andrew’s Cathedral & Castle’s Balgove Larder via Queensferry & East Neuk, Scone Palace’s booked 1h tour via Tay Bridge, Kinross’ Loch Leven
• Stirling: Mote Hill via Back Walk, Stirling Castle, Hermann’s lunch
• Anstruther: Scottish Fisheries Museum, Cellar lunch, harbour fish & chips
• St Andrew’s: Fife Coastal Trail, beach, golf
• Perth: Tay riverbank walk/kayak
- p. 162-3

• eats: Nile Valley Café’s Africa wrap, Mosque Kitchen aubergine curry, Sister Bao oil spill noodles & smacked cucumber
• Royal Observatory night-sky tour
- p. 95

South Edinburgh
• Bruntsfield, Morningside: Barclay Viewforth Church, Dominion Cinema’s 30s art deco carpet & chairs, Wild West Town, Canny Man’s whisky
• eats: Kalpna baingnan achari, Kora’s Scot meat/fish, Michelin Condita
• pubs: greasy 32 Below, Dagda Bar ceiling emboss, Royal Dick Bar’s Pickering gin, Southern craft beer, Leslie’s Bar mahogany island, Cloisters Bar ale & whisky church
- p. 92-95

South Edinburgh
• Craigmillar Castle
• National Mining Museum tour
• Rosslyn Chapel
• Golf courses: Prestonfield parkland, gorse Braid Hills
• The Meadows: mini golf, Chapel of St Albert the Great
- p. 89-91

Leith
• Portobello beach: soft-serve 99-flake ice cream, red sandstone Swim Centre, Town Hall’s neoclassical Georgian crescents
• drinks: Nobles Bar’s Victorian stained glass, Teuchters Lansing’s waterfront whisky, leafy veggie/vegan Woodland Creatures, Malt & Hops’ waterside cask ales
- p. 87-88

Leith
• Shore tastes: Ship on the Shore oysters, King’s Wark (salt-pepper squid, seafood chowder, baked camembert), Fishers’ garlic butter Anstruther lobster, Crolla’s (ice cream, waffles, churros), Toast (wine, cocktail, coffee)
• brunch: Mimi’s Bakehouse’s Scottish breakfast & French toast, Pitt street food, Roseleaf’s eggs Benedict & Stornoway black pudding
- p. 87

Leith
• Shore to Stockbridge: Georgian building Custom House, shipbuilding’s Coalie Park, St Marks Park’s gunpowder factory
• high-end dining: nose-to-tail Kitchin, French waterfront Martin Wishart, Little Chartroom’s open kitchen, organ farm-to-table Heron, modern European Aurora
- p. 86

Leith
• Leith Links’ golf rules
• Port distillery rooftop bar
• Royal Yacht Britannia: Ocean Terminal mall photos, Burmese teak decks, 50s royal apartments, lower engine room
- p. 84-85

Stockbridge shopping:
• Designer fashion: George St, William St, Morningside Road to Bruntsfield Place
• Charity shops: Bethany, British Red Cross, Oxfam, Shelter
• Artisan Roast coffee
- p. 83

Royal Botanic Garden
1. Spring: Alpine House’s snowdrops & Chinese witch hazels, pink magnolias & pastel winter roses, Terrace Café
2. Summer: Woodland Gdn’s Himalayan blue poppies, Queen Mother Golden Jubilee roses, Inverleith Hse lawn picnic
3. Autumn: pink Guernsey & crimson flag lilies, purple crocuses, katsura’s caramel
4. Winter: scarlet willow, temperate/tropical greenhouses, yellow catkins
- p. 82-83

Stockbridge
• Raeburn Place to Comely Bank Road
• Sunday farmers’ market
• Inverleith Park
• Colonies’ stone terraced houses with gabled windows
• eats: Stockbridge Tap ales & spirits, Pantry eggs Benedict & Belgian waffles, Scran & Scallie gastropub, RadiCibus’ 19c Georgian-Italian, Street Box’s Thai street food, Bross Bagels, Italian bistro Café Gallo, Kilted Donut coffee
- p. 80-83

West End
• Edinburgh Zoo’s penguin parade & pandas
• Murrayfield Stadium’s 11am Mon-Sat tour
• bars: Hanging Bat craft beers, Jolly Botanist’s 70 global gins, Teuchters Bar & Bunker whisky, Athletic Arms gravedigger decor
• eats: Painted Rooster’s soup/bagel/cake, Bread Meats Bread pastrami burger, Grazing by Mark Greenaway bistro
- p. 79

West End
• Dean Village: 19c viaduct Dean Bridge, St Bernard’s Well’s mosaic ceiling & natural spring, Hawthornbank Lane’s stone buildings & bright flowerboxes
• coffee: Dr Who’s Constable, Laura’s Kitchen’s coffee & breakfast, Vietnam House Café’s coffee & art gallery
• live music: Rat Pack piano bar, Usher Hall concerts, Ghillie Dhu’s Scottish music & ceilidh dance
- p. 77-78