Visiting Edinburgh

[garibaldired]

My son has just had his place at Edinburgh University confirmed. Yippee!
This means a trip to Edinburgh for me.......
Cost dictates a maximum stay of 3 nights (perhaps only 2) so where should I concentrate my efforts? I'm concerned I'll try to do too much.
Would I be better concentrating on the modern bmd indices? Or looking at my brickwalls much further back?
Not forgetting I have to visit Cleish in that time span too!
This will be my first proper visit to Edinburgh and we're coming up from the south of England. My son has never been to Scotland before!!

Any advice welcome!
Best wishes,
Meg

[LesleyB]

Hi Meg

so where should I concentrate my efforts?

That kind of depends on what "answers" you are hoping to find!

An idea is maybe to make a list of what it is you want to know or hope to find, draw a line though any of them that you could do online or from home, and those remaining "priority" questions will point you in the direction of where to concentrate your efforts.

Oh, and accept that you may not find all the answers you might like...look upon any answers as progress and a job well done! With any luck your son may require regular visits from Mum!

Best wishes
Lesley

[Rach]

Hi Meg,
Well done to your son. [Hopefully you will have some change left to pay for you research while he is at Uni!]
A day researching passes all to quickly and I have had mixed results. Some days I have found masses and on others achieved little. Sometimes the brick walls are the ones that eat up all the time. When I go now I spend some time following up, if possible, a brick wall and then go on to the more up to date ones if I find that I am getting nowhere.
Enjoy your day.
Rae

[garibaldired]

Thanks both of you for your replies.
I think I'll probably narrow my searching as I can see I'll probably be completely overwhelmed by it all! Plus I'm sure to get lost as I don't know my way around Edinburgh at all.

On a more practical level can anyone recommend anywhere cheap to stay and which is pretty central to everything?

Thanks again,
Meg

[Muriel]

Hi Meg

As far as places to stay are concerned try the visitscotland website. When you go to the Edinburgh & Lothians bit you can look for accommodation there. I would suggest you look for a B&B in the Mayfield area. There's loads of buses going into town - in fact most of them go down "The Bridges" to Princes Street past the university & with Register House facing you at the junction with Princes Street. You shouldn't get too lost - there's a large castle in the middle of the place that acts as an excellent landmark

Muriel

[garibaldired]

Muriel,

Thanks very much for that advice.
As you say the Castle is quite a landmark!

Best wishes,
Meg

[garibaldired]

I can't believe that my planned day at NRH ( 15th September) is a Bank Holiday!!


Meg

[WilmaM]

Not a Bank Holiday Meg, just the local Edinburgh September Local holiday.

All the banks should be open, and many of the shops, but schools, public offices and health services etc will all be closed.

Take heart though, the rest of the country will still be running as normal, the local holidays are all taken at different times, so you could hop on a train and head to Park Circus in Glasgow instead.

[garibaldired]

Oh thanks for explaining that for me Wilma.
So all may not be lost........

Meg

[Liz Turner]

Let me know if you're coming to Glasgow instead - I work 5 minutes away from Park Circus and would be happy to meet you for a coffee. Jack is often about too.

Regards visiting Edinburgh, if you do think about going back, it's worth trying to visit during University "vacation" - like Glasgow University (where I work), Edinburgh rent out student accommodation while the students go home!

http://www.accom.ed.ac.uk/visitor/index.htm

Liz

PS : Off topic - Muriel - I see from your signature that you are searching for Ross and in Lochwinnoch. Small world - my mother was a Ross and is from Lochwinnoch - who are you looking for?