Sometimes, when you’re in the city centre it’s easy to forget Edinburgh is a city beside the sea. The Leith area of Edinburgh was once a busy shipping port where ships unloaded their cargo and Edinburgh merchants collected it.
If you’ve ever been walking around Edinburgh city centre at lunch time you may have seen or heard the One O’Clock Gun being fired. This Edinburgh tradition was started so that ships that sailed the Firth of Forth were able to check their chronometers in the days before accurate time pieces were available.
These days Leith is a thriving hub of boutique shops, delicatessens, restaurants and pubs. Tom Kitchin, who appears regularly on Masterchef, has opened his own Michelin stared restaurant, The Kitchin on Commercial Street, and champagne bars and seafood restaurants such as Bond No9 and The Ship on the Shore see people migrating from the city centre to eat by the sea.
Leith has a large shopping and dining complex called Ocean Terminal which includes a large cinema, gym and spa.
It is also the final home of The Royal Yacht Britannia, the Queen’s Yacht which is now open to the public and is a Fantastic tourist attraction.
We are lucky enough to have two properties in Western Harbour, Edinburgh Panorama and City Scape. These flats are both beautifully luxurious with amazing views across the Forth and back up to Edinburgh Castle and the Pentland Hills beyond.
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