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Rachel Lawson
3 reviews on 1 places
Didn’t get into the house/hall itself but visited the courtyard place. The food from the restaurant smelt amazing but didn’t go in. The shop was really nice but couldn’t find the charity bookshop unfortunately. The village has a lot of really interesting history and it’s a lovely calming place to just walk around. Definitely worth a stop if you’re in the area and especially when it’s quieter.
How can anyone not like this place? It’s a beautiful church and you have the really moving story of Greyfriars Bobby to go with it. The graveyard is great to walk around and if you’re a Harry Potter fan you can find the graveyard that inspired Tom Riddle (although please be respectful of it!). There’s a paid Q parking place a short walk away that is not quite as expensive as other places in the centre of Edinburgh or it’s very accessible by public transport. Definitely worth a visit, often busy with other tourists though, maybe go earlier in the day to reduce being caught up in larger crowds.
To the person who said it’s not as claustrophobic as other towers to climb, I can only assume you either are a UK size 0, or just aren’t fully aware of your surroundings. I’ve climbed plenty of Scottish castles and I found this worse personally, but that didn’t mean that I didn’t ultimately enjoy it when I reached the top, and I even got (obviously by paying for it) a fun green screen edited picture of me falling off of it (let’s assume it was a greenscreen shot anyway…)
The church is beautiful too, gorgeous pink marble (I think?) lining some of the walls and ceiling. I didn’t realise until the end of the tower and museum part that you can go into the church by itself without having to climb the tower. It was only €5 anyway for a ticket which I thought was good value, and there was lots of stuff as part of the museum aspect about the brotherhood etc.
Can also confirm that I have never seen so many Jesus’ all in one place before. I also appreciated they wanted to compare the height of this tower with the Chrysler Building (and others).
Definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area, but just be aware there isn’t any lift up to the top of the tower.
The church is beautiful too, gorgeous pink marble (I think?) lining some of the walls and ceiling. I didn’t realise until the end of the tower and museum part that you can go into the church by itself without having to climb the tower. It was only €5 anyway for a ticket which I thought was good value, and there was lots of stuff as part of the museum aspect about the brotherhood etc.
Can also confirm that I have never seen so many Jesus’ all in one place before. I also appreciated they wanted to compare the height of this tower with the Chrysler Building (and others).
Definitely worth a visit if you’re in the area, but just be aware there isn’t any lift up to the top of the tower.