a wee smoke and chilling out in the meadows.

It's AWESOME.

I haven't been to many pubs, but could recommend The Advocate and The Tron, which are right across from each other and fairly easy to find as they are on Hunter's Square, which is right off of the Royal Mile.

The National Gallery of Scotland is quite nice and a good way to pass the time.

when are you staying til?

and the national galleries (i especially like the dean gallery).
camera obscura on the royal mile.
the 'ghost tours' that go underground are good if you're into that sort of thing.
if it's sunny and you want something outdoorsy, princes street gardens, the meadows, arthur's seat and calton hill are all really nice.

I could take you on a special tour

for four years! bring on the fun :)

although getting the gallery bus from next to them will take you some more modern (and in my view more interesting) ones.

Arthur's Seat is always worth a walk up if the weather's good - you get a stunning view of Edinburgh for relatively little effort.

As has been mentioned, Avalanche Records is awesome.

Some good pubs are Doctors near The Meadows, Tron (although it's an "It's A Scream" pub), The Malt Shovel was alright when I was in there on Sunday.

The ghost walks are meant to a pretty fun way of spending an evening - you sign up for them on The Royal Mail.

You can get round most of Holyrood House for free and that's a good way to kill a few hours. There's a (supposedly) good museum about the earth next door which is meant to be good but costs.

Ummm...I'll think of other things...

http://www.myspace.com/thesouthern

it is good

Definitely go to avalanche

Plus it's the meadows festival on Saturday - some bands.

And Henry's cellar bar usually has stuff on every night

Or the Egg at the edinburgh art school, but that is a saturday.

Whereabouts in Edinburgh?

There are loads of expensive and inexpensive food shops to slouch around in on sundays, but best is to go to the double matinee in the cameo in tollcross.

Tollcross also has a kurdish restaurant called Hanams which is not super cheap but amazing.

So, loads.

the 'innocent railway' tunnel is cool for walking through and not far from the city centre/arthurs seat http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTAPgk2mZc most pubs in the centre are quite vile on weekends but check out burlington betris, sofi's bar or a few on broughton st. http://www.list.co.uk/ will give you most of whats on.

for really good bangers and mash and other homely foods. I wish they hadnt closed the one on Byres Road. :(

i live here and it's great :)

just now there's an ace exhibition on at the Fruitmarket Gallery, so you should go there. I agree about Avalanche, it's awesome. And cheap!

You should go to Vittorias on George IV bridge and get some ice cream

Wander around the meadows in the sun

Go to the Blue Blazer pub and get some ALES, The Doctors is also nice, and does a good pub quiz on a sunday

if you're there on saturday night, go to The Egg at the school of art.

Go to Dynamic Earth, it's awesome, and if you're a bit bored, look round the parliment because it's actually a bit interesting.

Camera obscura is quite fun but also expensive. The Galleries are all good, and there's a free gallery bus that runs every 45 minutes between the ones in the city centre and the dean gallery/national gallery

have a good time! :)

The only decent record shop left in town is Hogs Head, waaaaaay out on South Clerk Street.

Pubs, check out the Auld Hoose if you're at all into weirdos and metal, the Brass Monkey is OK too. My favourite is The Regent, on Regent Road, but that's probably because it's my local. The Tron is a shithole full of wankers.

I think the only decent clubs are Studio 24 and the Hive, but I don't like clubs.

Seconding the museum, Arthurs Seat and the galleries, especially the Dean gallery - massive Paolozzi statues!