The Apostolic Church offers many activities, such as Alpha course, Kidzone, Inspiration Gospel Choir, Women's event, Men's breakfast, Prayer nights, Life classes and Housegroups. This beautiful Pentecostal church was founded in 1931 and it has recently changed its name to Life Church. It is best known for its large murals depicting archangels, angels, choirs, saints, martyrs and evangelists.

This little café is usually abundant with locals who come to enjoy and experience the tasty tea it has to offer. It provides great tea that smells really good and guests can savor every moment. Those who are in a hurry can buy tea from the Chai Tea House shop. Not far from it is Yum Yum HK Diner, the Southsider pub and Domino's Pizza.

The University of Edinburgh was the fourth university to be established in Scotland and is one of the most important places of learning in the world.

It was originally founded by Royal Charter in 1583 after Bishop Robert Reid left funds for its building in his will. The construction was also funded by the Town Council, making it one of the 1st civic universities to be built.

The first building was designed by Robert Adam and is now called Old College. It was dedicated to anatomy and the budding science of surgery. It had an underground passage from the lecture hall to the anatomy room and Burke and Hare weren’t the first to smuggle bodies there. Today Old College is a prestigious law school.

By the 19th century, Old College was bursting at the seams and in 1845 Robert Rowand Anderson was commissioned to build a new medical school by expanding a Free Church building on the Mound donated by the newly established Free Church of Scotland. The Mc Ewan Hall was added in 1889. The New College as it was called merged with the Faculty of Divinity in 1935.

In 2002 the different faculties were rearranged into three colleges besides Divinity: The College of Science and Engineering, the College of Humanities and Social Sciences and the College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine. The university owns several other buildings in the city. Both Charles Darwin and Alexander Graham Bell studied at the University of Edinburgh.

Grassmarket is located in the Old Town district, not far from Edinburgh Castle, Victoria Street and Candlemaker Row. It has well-preserved cobbled streets and medieval architecture that is of great historical value. Locals usually come here for shopping or to visit the numerous pubs and clubs lining the street. There are also a lot of specialty shops and boutiques located here.

The Royal Mile is a chain of streets which form the main access through the Old Town from Edinburgh Castle to Holyrood Abbey. It is longer than an ordinary mile because at the time it was used by royalty going from the castle to the abbey, the Scottish mile was longer than the English one.

The Mile is full of shops, restaurants, pubs, monuments, museums and other buildings of interest, so it’s not surprising that it is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town. In the order that the streets run from the castle to the abbey, they are: Castle Esplanade, initially a parade ground and where the annual Military Tattoo takes place. Note the cannonball, fired by mistake from the castle, lodged in the wall of Cannonball House.

Castlehill is the home of The Hub building, which was once the Tolbooth Highland St John’s Church. Along this street you will also find Camera Obscura and World of Illusions, the oldest tourist attraction in the city. Castlehill is followed by Lawnmarket which was once a linen market. You will see a new hotel here whose controversial design was won it the “Carbuncle Award” since 2009.

The next section of the Mile, the High Street is the main focal point for the Edinburgh Festival and is full of street entertainers and musicians. It is in this part of the Mile where the Heart of Midlothian is to be found. After the High Street comes Canongate, with the beautiful Moray House and the former Canongate Tolbooth, now the People’s Story Museum.

Finally you will reach Abbey Strand approaching the ruins of Holyrood Abbey. Next to the Queen’s Gallery the remains of the Holyrood Palace gatehouse can been seen and the coat of arms of King James IV of Scotland are set into the wall.

Shopping and sightseeing in Edinburgh’s Royal Mile can be tiring, so if you don’t feel like having lunch in a crowded pub or restaurant, take a pack lunch or pick up a sandwich and take it to Dunbar’s Close Garden near the Canongate Kirkyard.

Dunbar’s Close is one of the 80 narrow lanes left over from medieval times and the garden there is like stepping back in time. Truly a secret garden, even a lot of local people don’t know of its existence, so you will be able to enjoy your lunch in peace.

The garden is surrounded by high ancient brick walls; it is long and rather narrow, its three quarters of an acre are laid out in a 17th century design, with gravel paths and flowers beds neatly bordered by ting hedges. The beds are filled with herbs, flowers, shrubs and conical-shaped bushes. Mature trees, including fig and sycamore, give a welcome shade over the stone benches.

The garden was created by Sir Patrick Geddes, a biologist, who wanted to make many other gardens like it, but sadly he died shortly after Dunbar’s Close Garden was finished. At the beginning of the nineteen seventies the garden was neglected and overgrown, but was taken over by the Mushroom Trust, a charity that promotes the creation of urban gardens. They commissioned the landscape architect Seamus Filor to clean the garden up and then in 1977, the Trust gave it to the City of Edinburgh Council, who opened it to the public in 1978.