We learnt about the Edinburgh's considerable literary history on... a literary pubcrawl. Yes, we paid an expert in Scottish history 10 quid, and he led us around the local pubs frequented by people such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, JK Rowling and Ian Rankin. We stood in the grounds of the hospital where Doyle got his inspiration for Sherlock Holmes - a man called Dr Joseph Bell, who was Doyle's tutor at medical school. Bell was well-known for his "grand conclusions based on mere trifles".
Claire and I stuck to our pact, which was to only drink scotch on the pubcrawl. A few locals were unhappy when I needed to add some water to their nectar. "You'll learn," they said, "you'll learn".
On top of Kings Arthur's Seat - the silhouette of Edinburgh Castle is in the distance
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