The Writers' Museum
Burns, Scott and Stevenson in a seventeenth-century house off the Royal Mile, free.
Lady Stair's House is a tall, narrow townhouse with steep stairs and small rooms devoted to the three writers, including Stevenson's riding boots and Burns' writing desk. The courtyard outside, Makars' Court, has quotations set into the paving. Free, and twenty minutes is plenty.
When it works
Indoors, so the weather does not matter. Best morning, afternoon.
Good for going solo and a first visit.
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