“This is the main dock. When that’s opened up all you see are fridges where they slide the bodies in. And there’s a separate room for the Decomposing Room, where they keep the really bad ones, which have been sitting for a while.”
This is just one quote from an interesting walk around Edinburgh based on its famous novelist son Ian Rankin’s favourite haunts posted recently by The Times newspaper.
You can read the full article at this link
We’ve got a special treat today - sneak preview photos from the various routes in the Edinburgh Historic Walking Guide! You can find all of the photos on album on Flickr, but here are some of the real gems. Isn’t Edinburgh a magical place?
Reflections on the Union Canal
Getting some perspective on Calton Hill
A great view from Cramond Island
Signage in the Grassmarket
A twilight shot of St Giles Church on the Royal Mile
Historic Walking Guides: Edinburgh is in the final stages of production. We hope to have a release around mid-May. Please stay tuned here for more details.
The book is authored by local expert Andy Hayes.
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This Edinburgh guide book covers a number of walking routes through the famed historic city. Each walk is themed, allowing you to uncover the city's history piece by piece. From historic buildings of the Royal Mile, to gardens and canals, this book is a fantastic and up-to-date travel guide to Ednburgh written by local expert Andy Hayes.