The Museum of Edinburgh, on the Royal Mail gives a great insight into life from a bygone time in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Trinkets, furniture and room set-ups bring the museum to life, costumes for the kids help fuel their imagination. Just being in the seemingly untouched building is fascinating, the rooms getting smaller with every flight of creaking steps.

Free to get in, or as I did today, you can simply take in the lovely exterior from one of the benches opposite.