Edinburgh: easy on the eye and a joy to navigate

WITHIN a couple of hours of my first visit to Edinburgh, it became clear this was a really visitor-friendly city.

Compact and brimming with an offbeat history, it is enclosed by seven hills, as well as the Pentland and Allermuir Hills, and then also the sea.

Supposedly a royal decree imposed building height restrictions to maintain the view from the Queen’s Scottish residence at Holyroodhouse Palace. But maybe that was just independence talk, which was everywhere amongst locals, less than a year out from that big vote.