good morning from scotland
i am here in edinburgh in the country's
capital i'm gonna be here for two days
exploring this amazing city and i'm
taking you along with me so you can see
some stuff that you might want to do
while you're here and for this video of
course i'm going to have my trusty
google pixel 6 pro taking lots of
pictures and videos and showing you some
of the other features on the phone as we
explore edinburgh first we're going to
go get some breakfast at the edinburgh
larter which is recommended to me by one
of my instagram followers let's go
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edinborough larder located just off the
royal mile is a cafe that serves
seasonal local food with ingredients
sourced from scottish producers here
they're most famous for their legendary
breakfast with the option for a typical
one
a veggie one or vegan so i went for the
vegan which was delicious and very
filling the vibe here is super chill
staffer friendly and prices are london
level but you'll eat well and you'll
have great coffee too okay i'm all
filled up on food and now i'm gonna head
to do a little bit of shopping with the
first place that i'm going to call tales
which is a secondhand bookshop i just
took this photo and i want to get rid of
this estate agent sign in the corner
here so i'm going to use the magic
eraser tool to do that so we just zoom
in
and i color it in
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that's it it's gone
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my umbrella is not that big a lot of it
is really walkable but i forgot how many
hills and like different levels to the
city there are
i love shops that sell second-hand items
so when one of my instagram followers
recommended tills i just had to pop in
the bookshop is filled with a mix of
different titles and genres so do give
yourself time to browse the very
reasonably priced selection there are a
couple of reading corners in the shop as
well and with the comforting old-timey
music playing the shop feels a bit like
you're stepping back in time
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that book shop was so cute and i picked
up a book that i've been wanting to read
for a while it was only four pound fifty
pretty good for a second hand one
now i'm going to go to the shop called
train it is in the stockbridge area and
it is
full of eco-friendly and vegan and
sustainable products which you know is
right up my alley so let's go check it
out
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trine is a boutique shop in the lovely
stock bridge neighborhood that sells
beautiful sustainably made clothing
accessories and homewares notably they
have an incredible jacket collection and
i actually picked up some new girlfriend
collective leggings here the two women
that were working here when i visited
were so nice and chatty so do tell them
i sent you and then i said hello if you
go visit because pieces here are made
with people and the planet in mind
expect higher prices than you might find
at other stores but this is a place you
go to get that one piece you wear for
years and that always reminds you of
your visit to edinburgh
i've just left trine and i cannot
believe like how nice everybody here is
in edinburgh first of all everyone's
very excited for me to be filming
whereas in london
sometimes they're a little bit like
we're not sure about that if you can
film in here but everyone's just been
asking how my day is and what i'm doing
and it's been so nice
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okay next up i'm going to a restaurant
for lunch called david bond one of you
instagram followers recommended it to me
and it is
a fully vegetarian restaurant with lots
of vegan options i've heard
good things about it so far
so
let's go have a really yummy lunch
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david bond is a fully vegetarian
restaurant and is a super vegan friendly
too
the dishes are inventive and beautifully
presented and in the evening this would
be a beautiful date night spot you can
expect prices that are mid-range for
edinburgh
okay the food at david bond was very
good i had a quinoa
courgette wrap
dish with roast potatoes it was very
good i would recommend going at dinner
time over lunch time because there is
no vibe or music playing or anything
during lunch but it seems like that
would be more of a place that
had more going on in the evening
i came back to my hotel for a little bit
because well if you've seen my video
about the train journey here you'll know
why um but now i have a booking to go to
the hollywood distillery where i'm gonna
do a whiskey tasting
not the biggest fan of whiskey but i
figured when you're in scotland you kind
of have to do it don't you so let's go
try some whiskey
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hollywood distillery is new to
edinburgh's distillery scene making both
whiskey engine the ingredients and
processes that they use are very
edinburgh and scotland focused so if you
want a hyper local distillery experience
this is a good one to go to the
distillery tour and a four drink tasting
flight of either whiskey or gin is about
25 pounds and the distillery is only a
15-minute walk from the royal mile so
it's pretty easy to fit into your
schedule
after finishing up at the distillery i
popped into
a vietnamese fast food-ish kind of
restaurant called savager they don't
take reservations so if you just want
something that's not too expensive this
was a good spot i enjoy the food
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okay
back in the hotel this first day in
edinburgh was
so good even though i've been really
tired
i was a bit worried about coming here in
the autumn because of the temperature
and i've only been here in the summer
but actually
it looks extra beautiful in this city
with all of the autumn leaves and the
cloudy fall weather so time to go to bed
and i'll see you in the morning
good morning let's start day two in
edinburgh i'm gonna start with coffee at
this cafe called fortitude which seems
to be a local favorite here in the city
i've got my camera charged up my google
pixel 6 pro charged up it's time to go
eat
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fortitude coffee came at the
recommendation of many locals this tiny
cafe is great for the coffee snobs who
know their roasts i don't really know
them but i do know the coffee was
delicious they also have a small
selection of breakfast options which
they source ingredients for as locally
as possible i had a nice little granola
even though it's really small fortitude
is a beautiful but relaxed spot to have
a light breakfast and a damn good coffee
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well that coffee was really good at that
place i don't usually say coffee's
actually because i don't know coffee
that well but it just tasted so nice and
so it was
the granola i had for breakfast next up
i'm going to be heading to this area
called leaf
where i'm going to be doing this
quite interesting alternative tour and
i'm gonna find like an interesting
way to navigate myself there so
let's go do that
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okay i'm on jacob's ladder right now but
basically to get to life
there are two scenic ways i can go
why am i filming this walking up this
this is a dumb idea two ways to go one
is lathe walk which is a road
that has cafes and shops along it and
things like that
or
there's the water of lathe which is a
very small canal that winds
and goes all the way to
lathe
so what i'm going to do is
walk lathe walk to a point
and then go on to the water of lathe
and do the bit windy bit and do that
should take me about
30 minutes to walk to like the proper
part of
lathe walk
oh my god this was a dumb idea
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also up here is this is calton hill and
this is kind of like the other option
from arthur's seat to
walk up and get a view of
edinburgh
i will not be going up there today
because i do not have time
i just found this sign that's written in
gaelic so i'm gonna translate it with my
phone okay so on my pixel 6 pro i can
go to lens and
translate and it does a live translate
so
put that up there oh and it says welcome
to
primary school parkside i've just
reached the water of lathe and this is
the first thing
i've seen what is this
anyway i've reached
water of lathe i will walk along it till
i get to life
the water of leaf walkway is a footpath
along a beautiful stream that runs
almost 13 miles or 20 kilometers it was
opened in 2002 and is used for walks for
cycling and even horseback riding i
managed to see the park closest to leaf
but a local told me to next time start
in stock bridge which is even more
picturesque than where i was there's
another trick i want to show you on the
camera of the google pixel 6 pro here it
is okay so there's a way that we can
make this moving water look really
smooth in a still photo we go into the
camera and we go to the mode that's
called
motion and there's two modes but for
this one we're doing long exposure so
you just click
and hold still
and what it does
is it makes that water look
nice and smooth
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okay i've made it into
the mostly the main part of lathe and
i'm getting major copenhagen vibes it's
a lovely little area
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okay i've done a little bit of walking
around lathe had a cup of coffee and now
it's time to go on this alternative tour
of link
this alternative tour of leath is run by
invisible cities a social enterprise
that employs people who are at some
point homeless as tour guides our guide
paul was super energetic and
entertaining and he had grown up in
leith making his stories even more
interesting to listen to the tours are
reasonably priced at just 15 pounds and
your money goes back to paying the
guides fairly and also right back into
the business as it's a non-profit that
tour was really
really good the tour guide paul was just
so chatty and energetic and personable
and he grew up in
leaf which i now know how to say
properly
so highly recommend it okay i'm running
back to my hotel i'm gonna change and
then i'm going to
a restaurant for dinner that's doing
this tasting menu it was recommended by
one of my instagram followers and they
said that it's the best tasting menu
in the world i mean
that statement i don't think they've
been done every single tasting menu in
the world but i have a high expectation
so i'm looking forward to it
aisle is located in the gorgeous kimton
charlotte square hotel in the garden
room which gives it a relaxed and yet
incredibly high-end ambiance to your
experience it's all tasting menus here
and they hand you an envelope with the
menu in it so if you want to be
surprised as each course comes out you
can and well that's what i did i love
being surprised when it comes to food
the service is incredible as well as the
presentation of the dishes so this is
really a high-end special experience the
tasting menu is 85 pounds per person and
you can do a wine pairing with that for
60 pounds a person so this is likely to
be one of if not the most expensive meal
you have in edinburgh
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just finished up at azel and
it was
a really good experience the vibe is
great in there the staff are amazing the
decor is beautiful
the food started off great um the
presentation fantastic the taste
was really good in the beginning like
amazing
tapered off a bit wasn't quite so as
happy so it wasn't the best tasting menu
i've ever had but
it was still really good and worth the
experience now i'm making my way to
panda and sons which has become highly
recommended as a great cocktail place to
go in edinburgh
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you guys know i love a bar behind a
bookcase and that's where panda and suns
is you head into the bar and you're
greeted with old school panda decor all
over the place i sat at the bar and
talked to the bartenders they seemed to
really know their stuff the cocktails
are fairly off the wall like this one is
called dubai in the sky and has candy
floss aka cotton candy in it so if you
love an eclectic cocktail and don't mind
paying a pretty price for it then you
will love the vibe here
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that's my 48 hours in edinburgh done and
i'm heading to the train station but
thank you to my google pixel 6 pro which
makes traveling so much easier from the
live translate to the battery save mode
so i never run out of battery when i'm
running around to all of the amazing
features in the camera thanks to google
pixel for sponsoring this video for more
information about this phone that i use
every day click the link in the
description box of this video and next
up you should absolutely watch my
comparison video of the two different
trains i took to and from edinburgh by
clicking the box that's popping up over
here