As spooky season casts its spell, one writer headed to the Scottish capital for a weekend of ghoulish antics, spooky cocktails and Gothic splendour
As the evenings draw in and with Halloween on the horizon, what better place to visit than Scotland’s bewitching capital, Edinburgh?
We checked into the impressive Prestonfield House and then its sister property, aptly named The Witchery by the Castle – both serving up Halloween with class. A host of celebrities have crossed their thresholds over the years, too.
We explored underground Edinburgh, too, at The Real Mary King’s Close . It’s home to the city’s only preserved 17th-century street and you can imagine the noise and stench as people lived cheek by jowl. The guided tour covers everything from the bubonic plague to the ghost of a child, “wee Annie”, who is said to have died there.After all that ghostly activity, it was time to relax and enjoy spirits of a different kind at the first of our hotels.
The Witchery is a one-minute walk from Edinburgh Castle and right on the Royal Mile. It is also minutes from George Heriot’s School, said to be the inspiration for Hogwarts. Sure enough, the café where JK Rowling created Harry, Ron and Hermione, and since renamed The Elephant House, is just a stone’s throw away. But sadly the building was one of several properties badly damaged in a blaze on George IV Bridge in 2021 and the café remains closed.
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