Bringing things up to their current date after posting the darker side of Edinburgh here is a picture of Leith Walk, I live at the end of this street and its about 3/4 of a mile from Edinburgh City Centre
Leith has had a fairly colourful history, in most recent times is because of the author Irvine Welsh who wrote the Trainspotting novel, he lived round the corner from myself and also the train station that he was referring to is now a supermarket.
Also we have the Royal Yacht Brittania but I have never visited due to the fact I hate all the touristy bits.
One of the best pubs that I have found in Leith is called the
Port o Leith bar in Constitution Street, there has been many a night spent steaming and dancing on the bar at weekends, I kid you not, although since the smoking ban has been brought in I have hardly been out, but now I have stopped smoking hope to get back out there give it time. It is one of the truly mad places you can walk into and find people from all over the world having a drink together.