The immediate vicinity of the flat is full of restaurants and pubs, coffee shops and sandwich bars, catering for everyone from the gourmet to the student from the nearby university to the hungry tourist looking for a break from the many attractions in this part of Edinburgh. Some of the city's most quaint, curious and unusual shops are just around the corner in Victoria Street, and in the Grassmarket, while the Royal Scottish Museum is a minute's walk away in the opposite direction. The famous Royal Mile, whose ancient passageways, known as Closes and Wynds, well repay a day's exploration, also offers museums, tourist shops, exhibitions and historic buildings open to the public, and can be reached on foot in under five minutes, while Scotland's best-known shopping throroughfare, Princes S...