Check out our map of things to do, or try something from the list below!
Touristing
- Stroll along the Royal Mile. Why not buy an overpriced kilt or Loch Ness Monster hat?
- Edinburgh zoo features the penguin parade
- Fulfil your princess fantasies at a castle or a palace
- The National Museum of Scotland even has a particle-physics section!
- Dynamic Earth is great for kids (of all ages) - if you visit on the 7th you can see our colleagues from Boulby Lab be Dark Matter Detectives for free.
- See how the other half live on the Royal Yacht Britannia
- Climb Arthur's Seat or one of the other hills in Holyrood Park
- Be beside the seaside at Portobello (raincoats optional)
- Visit one (or more) of Scotland's national art galleries
- Do a ghost tour or see the underground vaults! Spooky!
- Picnic on The Meadows
- Smell the flowers at the Royal Botanic Gardens
- Do a tour of Holyrood Distillery with discount code HDPHYSICS26
Going out-out
Go to the pub!
- Close to the venue, we like Summerhall, and the location of our outreach event on Friday!
- Small but very authentic - Steel Coulson, John Leslie's Bar, or the Old Bell.
- Lots of outdoor space and sports on a big screen: Pear Tree.
- Once hosted Nirvana in the 90's: The Southern.
- Folk music: Sandy Bell's.
- Views, pizza and their own brewer: Cold Town House.
- There are also many more pubs.
Where in the city to go out
- Takeaways: Newington
- Chain restaurants and tourists:New Town
- Fancy: Stockbridge or Morningside
- Bars and lots of restaurants: Tollcross
- Drunk Australians: Cowgate
- Trendy/boat-themed: Leith
- Scenic but overpriced: Grassmarket
- Capitalist hellscape: St James Quarter
- Cafes and knickknacks: Bruntsfield
Clubbing: Cowgate