Edinburgh in the Pocket Guide series from Berlitz; a collection of handy, pocket-sized guides dedicated to an extensive range of cities, regions & countries worldwide. Written in narrative form, individual guides explore the history, main sights & attractions, food & drink, accommodation & local culture of the destination in detail. Each Berlitz pocket guide has a similar format, with colour-coded sections helping readers locate information quickly in addition to distinctive chapters exploring the city or region. An introduction outlines the destination for visitors & a section dedicated to `A Brief History` actually explores the area in relative depth. A where to go chapter is organized by region & city & is written in prose form with references to individual sites highlighted in bold for clarity. There are also further suggestions on where & when to eat. Recommendations for leisure activities in the region, including sport, nightlife & shopping, are also provided & tailored accordingly for each destination. Handy travel tips are listed alphabetically in a dedicated section, providing practical guidance & helping visitors make the most of their stay. The main hotels, particularly for cities, are also listed in an accommodation section, offering a brief overview with approximate price bandings & relevant contact details. ...

Lonely Planet's Pocket Edinburgh is your passport to all the most relevant & up-to-date advice on what to see, what to skip, & what hidden discoveries await you. Take in the views & the history from Edinburgh Castle, shop, eat & drink in the New Town, or relax in Princes Street Gardens; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of the best of Edinburgh & begin your journey now! Inside Lonely Planet's Pocket Edinburgh: Full-colour maps & images throughout. Highlights & itineraries show you the simplest way to tailor your trip to your own personal needs & interests. Insider tips save you time & money & help you get around like a local, avoiding crowds & trouble spots. Essential info at your fingertips
- including hours of operation, phone numbers, websites, transit tips, & prices. Honest reviews for all budgets
- including eating, sleeping, sight-seeing, going out, shopping, & hidden gems that most guidebooks miss. Free, convenient pull-out Edinburgh map (included in print version), plus seventeen colour neighbourhood maps. User-friendly layout with helpful icons, & organised by neighbourhood to help you determine the best spots to spend your time. Useful features
- including Best for Kids, Walking Tours, & Don't Miss (quick glance at must-sees). Coverage of the Old Town, New Town, Leith & more. The Perfect Choice: Lonely Planet's Pocket Edinburgh is a handy guide that literally fits in your pocket, providing on-the-go assistance to travellers who seek only the can't-miss experiences. Colourful & easy-to-use, this neighbourhood-focused guide

Includes:: unique local recommendations to maximise your quick-trip experience. Looking for more extensive coverage? Check out Lonely Planet's Scotland guide for a comprehensive look at all the country has to offer, or Lonely Planet's Discover Scotl&, a photo-rich guide to the country's most popular attractions. About Lonely Planet: Started in 1973, Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet, as well as an award-winning website, a suite of mobile & digital travel products, & a dedicated traveller community. Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world & to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in. Trip Advisor Travelers' Choice Awards 2012 & 2013 winner in Favorite Travel Guide category' Lonely Planet guides are, quite simply, like no other.' -The New York Times' Lonely Planet. It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands. It's on mobile phones. It's on the Internet. It's everywhere, & it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world.' -Fairfax Media (Australia)




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Conveniently sized to carry with you around the city, the map identifies parking garages & one-way streets, public toilets, pubs, hotels, gas stations & public buildings. Fully revised & updated, this map is all you need to keep you on the move in Edinburgh. ...

Uncover the magnificence of Scotland`s capital city of Edinburgh with the help of this genuinely pocket-sized, pop-up map. Small in size, yet big on detail, this compact, dependable Edinburgh city map will ensure you don`t miss a thing. *

Includes:: a pop-up map covering the historic city centre * Top 22 things to see are also listed to ensure you see all the best sights * Handy, self-folding tourist map is small enough to fit in your pocket yet offers extensive coverage of the city in an easy-to-use format * Thorough street index is also featured & cross-referenced to the map so you can easily find your destination * Hotels, restaurants, stores & attractions are all included Ideal to pop in a pocket or bag for quick reference while exploring this gorgeous city.

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Open the cover & discover a remarkable design! The map & guide is fully cross referenced for instant, effortless navigation between popout & guide, making this the easiest guidebook you'll ever use. Well written text covers sights, shopping, entertainment, food, practical information & where to stay. With a durable stunning laminated cover, this is the perfect map & guide combination for your trip to Edinburgh. ...

Edinburgh Premier Wall Map, size 121 x 97cm, *encapsulated version*, from Geographers` A-Z Map Company designed to cover the city within its administrative boundaries, with an enlargement for the city centre & an index listing streets, places & areas, hospitals & hospices, industrial estates, selected flats & walkways, stations, junctions, & selected places of interest, shown where appropriate with their postcodes. The city is covered at 3? inches to 1 mile (1:19, 000), with an enlargement showing the town centre in greater clarity at 6.67 inches to 1 mile (1:9, 500). Coverage
Includes:: Balerno, Bonnyrigg, Cramond, Currie, Dalkeith, Leith, Loanhead, Musselburgh, West Craigs & Whitegraigs. Current edition of this title was published in 2008. The plans show selected A & B roads annotated with house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, selected car parks & Park & Ride facilities are marked. Railway stations are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus national grid lines. The index is is next to the map.* This title is also available on paper, or as a folded map.*LAMINATED & ENCAPSULATED WALL MAPS:*- *laminated* wall maps have a thin layer of plastic usually applied to the printed side only. They can be written on with suitable marker pens without any damage to the map but, unless laminated on both sides, they are not damp-proof.- *encapsulated* wall maps are sealed between two sheets of plastic. They are more rigid & heavier than laminated maps of the same size. They are damp-proof & do not crinkle in humid conditions. Encapsulation gives the map a shiny surface, similar to being displayed behind glass.- *please note:* many publishers & retailers often use these two terms interchangeably. Our map titles & descriptions follow the definitions provided above.
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Edinburgh Premier Street Plan from Geographers' A-Z Map Company designed to cover the city within its administrative boundaries, with an enlargement for the city centre & an index listing streets, places & areas, hospitals & hospices, industrial estates, selected flats & walkways, stations, junctions, & selected places of interest, shown where appropriate with their postcodes. The city is covered at 3 1/3 inches to 1 mile (1:19, 000), with an enlargement showing the town centre in greater clarity at 6 2/3 inches to 1 mile (1:9, 500). Coverage
Includes:: Balerno, Bonnyrigg, Cramond, Currie, Dalkeith, Leith, Loanhead, Musselburgh, West Craigs & Whitegraigs. Current edition of this title was published in 2008. The plans show selected A & B roads annotated with house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, selected car parks & Park & Ride facilities are marked. Railway stations are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus national grid lines. The index is next to the map. This title is also available as a wall map, on paper or encapsulated.
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Edinburgh Premier Wall Map, size 121 x 97cm, encapsulated version, from Geographers' A-Z Map Company designed to cover the city within its administrative boundaries, with an enlargement for the city centre & an index listing streets, places & areas, hospitals & hospices, industrial estates, selected flats & walkways, stations, junctions, & selected places of interest, shown where appropriate with their postcodes. The city is covered at 3? inches to 1 mile (1:19, 000), with an enlargement showing the town centre in greater clarity at 6.67 inches to 1 mile (1:9, 500). Coverage
Includes:: Balerno, Bonnyrigg, Cramond, Currie, Dalkeith, Leith, Loanhead, Musselburgh, West Craigs & Whitegraigs. Current edition of this title was published in 2008. The plans show selected A & B roads annotated with house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, selected car parks & Park & Ride facilities are marked. Railway stations are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus national grid lines. The index is is next to the map. This title is also available on paper, or as a folded map.LAMINATED & ENCAPSULATED WALL MAPS:- laminated wall maps have a thin layer of plastic usually applied to the printed side only. They can be written on with suitable marker pens without any damage to the map but, unless laminated on both sides, they are not damp-proof.- encapsulated wall maps are sealed between two sheets of plastic. They are more rigid & heavier than laminated maps of the same size. They are damp-proof & do not crinkle in humid conditions. Encapsulation gives the map a shiny surface, similar to being displayed behind glass.- please note: many publishers & retailers often use these two terms interchangeably. Our map titles & descriptions follow the definitions provided above.
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Edinburgh Premier Wall Map, size 121 x 97cm, paper version, from Geographers' A-Z Map Company designed to cover the city within its administrative boundaries, with an enlargement for the city centre & an index listing streets, places & areas, hospitals & hospices, industrial estates, selected flats & walkways, stations, junctions, & selected places of interest, shown where appropriate with their postcodes. The city is covered at 3? inches to 1 mile (1:19, 000), with an enlargement showing the town centre in greater clarity at 6.67 inches to 1 mile (1:9, 500). Coverage
Includes:: Balerno, Bonnyrigg, Cramond, Currie, Dalkeith, Leith, Loanhead, Musselburgh, West Craigs & Whitegraigs. Current edition of this title was published in 2008. The plans show selected A & B roads annotated with house numbers for easier identification of addresses. One way traffic, restricted access, pedestrianized streets, selected car parks & Park & Ride facilities are marked. Railway stations are shown with names. Colouring and/or symbols indicate public building, services & facilities, including shopping centres or market streets, industrial buildings, hospitals or healthcare, etc. Public toilets are marked, indicating those with facilities for the disabled. The map also shows local authority & postcode boundaries, plus national grid lines. The index isnext to the map. This title is also available encapsulated, or as a folded map.
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Princes Street area of Edinburgh in 1896 in a fascinating series of reproductions of old Ordnance Survey plans in the Alan Godfrey Editions, ideal for anyone interested in the history of their neighbourhood or family. Selected towns in Great Britain & Ireland are covered by maps showing the extent of urban development in the last decades of the 19th & early 20th century. In this title: the map covers much of central Edinburgh, stretching from Waverley Bridge westward to Belford Road & from Lauriston Place northward to Cumberland Street. Features include St Giles Cathedral, The Castle, Princes Street station, western end of Waverley station, Haymarket station, most of Princes Street, most of the New Town around George Street, National Gallery, Grassmarket, Charlotte Square, Belgrave Crescent Gardens, Donaldson's Hospital, Ravelston area, Daniel Stewart's College, Coates area, Moray Place, St Andrew Square, National Portrait Gallery, tramways, Royal Infirmary, St George's church, Queen Street Gardens, etc. On the reverse are street directory entries for Princes Street, Queen Street, Queensferry Street. About the Alan Godfrey Editions of the 25 ...