Edinburgh Hotels - Auld Reekie Comes Up Roses

Historically Edinburgh was once the capital of a British kingdom that served as a buffer state against the Pictish people north of Stirling. Later it was part of the nascent Kingdom of Northumbria. But today the thing that strikes a visitor from South of the border above all is the quintessentially Scottish feel of the place.The reason why it was once so smoky ("reekie") was, in part, down to all