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The Waters of Leith

Edinburgh’s Water of Leith flows through the city on its course from the Pentland Hills to the Firth of Forth. We walked along its banks today, enjoying the dappled shade and the sound of birds and water. There were many moments when we could have sworn we were in Woodhaugh, Dunedin, walking along the banks of the southern city’s Water of Leith. Dunedin’s Water of Leith originates high above the city and finds its way to the harbour basin by...

A Tale of Two Book Cities

George Street, Princes Street, Leith Street, Hanover Street, Canongate. Waverly, Leith Valley, Corstorphine, Carlton Hill, Mussleburgh and Portobello. Names, to steal a line from Lauris Edmond, that ‘sing softly across the water’. And what a long stretch of water it is, between Edinburgh in Scotland and its wee sister city Dunedin in the south of the south. I glimpsed the sea from cobbled High Street, and thought of the sailing barque Philip Laing setting off from nearby Greenock in November...