This underground tour (unfortunately no photos allowed) took us under the Royal Mile where the closes used to house many of Edinburgh's poor and wealthy alike. Appartently Edinburgh had 6 story plus high tenament buildings and of course the poorer you were the lower down you stayed. There were also open sewers and the plague was rife.
It was a great tour - told in cosume by a 'merchant' of the day - complete with ghostly presences. Most amazing for us was a room that used to house a family of 12 - it was smaller than our lounge room and it was the entire house - complete with the bucket in the corner.
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