Edinburgh, Scotland
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- We spent a couple of days in Scotland's capital city exploring it's picturesque streets, castle and foods it has to offer. The castle is on a volcanic plug!!
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I've been living in Edinburgh the past few years to go to uni here and it just makes my heart warm to see other people visiting the city I've fallen in love with! I have some weird possessive feeling over it even though I'm not from here
I can't thank you for uploading these videos enough. Let me explain, my dad who passed away years ago was from Edinburgh. I used to go up there (from Newcastle) with him all the time. He's been gone for years now and I've never taken the time to go myself. You've brought some evocative memories back to me and well it even made me cry in a good way. Thank you so much.
Oh wow! Thank you so much for sharing. -E
The blackened buildings/architecture you see throughout Britain are due to coal fired industry and industrial smog in the 19th and early 20th century. Some stone types were more susceptible, most of the historic buildings in London have been cleaned.
Google blackened buildings + clean air act. All industrial towns and cities suffered from it, Edinburgh was no exception. Noticed any rural sandstone outcrops that are black?
Lang may yet lum reek! (Translation "long may your chimney smoke" i.e. Have a long life!)
Edinburgh is also known as "Auld Reekie". Reekie in this case meaning smelly, not just smelly smoke but, in the days before sewage systems were a thing, there was a fair old stench!
I remember as a young child driving in our family car through London & past the Natural History Museum, an imposing black gothic edifice. Roll on a number of years and this time it was I who was was driving my Dad past the same building. It had been renovated & cleaned of all it's soot and it was another building entirely with fantastic coloured brickwork and stone that had been totally hidden from sight previously!
This is so funny to watch. Being from Scotland and having visited local landmarks many times it’s just our norm and we probably take it for granted, so seeing tourists visit and feel so excited is so fun to watch.
eff ffecient bb
450 million years ago, Scotland was part of the same continent as North America. Since then it split away as the Atlantic ocean formed. So the extinct volcano the castle stands was created during the early stages of the formation of the Atlantic Ocean.
It’s my dad who does the one o’clock gun 😁😁😊😊 ( others do it to but he does it the most )
I stood behind it before and forgot I was filming and I swore in it and sent it to my dad forgetting I swore and I’m only eleven so he was mad.
Haha, your dad has an awesome job! -E
Yeah my son coming to Edinburgh. He really wants to hear the guns. I'll tell him it's your dad. Famous😀
Andree Egan my dads doing it tomorrow. He should go see it
Pete not going til hopefully November. I tell him about your dad. I been to Edinburgh and Castle. I'll let you know The date. So maybe he can meet say hello to your dad. He going to be delighted. Keep you posted sweetly. We EnglishbI think? We adore Scotland I feel home there. Keep ypumposted. He love to meet your dad xxxx
31:20 “...The (double decker) bus has its ups and downs.” Indeed 😆
Hahha
I'm Filipino native and have lived in Edinburgh. You have gone same place I did. Wow!
I really want to live in Edinburgh, have been 6 times and it's the best city in the UK by far. I wish I could afford to live in the Old Town, there's something so magical about it.
It's paradise on errth....
Edinburgh is Boss. One of the best Citys in the UK for sure. Glad you loved it!
the BEST!!!
I'm a new subscriber. I LOVE your channel. I only discovered it a couple of days ago and have thoroughly enjoyed binge
watching ever since. You're both so likeable and interesting and I'm glad I 'found' you.
We are glad you found us too! Thanks for the kind words. -E
Your descriptions of the various cities, towns and villages you visit are so eloquent. Love the insights you give and I look forward to your future videos. The 'outtakes' are spot on too! Keep up the good work.
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying!
Edinburgh is a great city, great for exploring. Good tip for getting around Scotland, public transport is expensive but you can get some good deals on megabus if you book in advance.
I love watching this because I live like 30 min from Edinburgh (I live in Livingston) and its so cool to see how fascinated you are about the city because it’s totally normal to me HAHAHAHAH
Already love this city from your video.
The vibe is great.
Put this on my to do list.
Not sure I'll make it but this is like a visit.🙂👍🏻
I've never heard of tablet being made and kept in a drawer. I know that (as you say) back in the day, on farms, breakfast was something called brose, which is a form of porridge but thicker. Oatmeal or barley was boiled with water and then poured into a drawer. This was often used in the farm bothy, a sort of dormitory for the unmarried farm workers. They would cut it up for breakfast re-heated or just take it out into the fields to eat as they worked.
That's how we call our sandwich a piece.
Cut a piece of thickened porridge for your piece...
As known as a daud
I went to Edinburgh last week, and it was really sunny. It really set off the place.
Nice! -E
The reason many buildings are black is due to the soot in the atmosphere before The Clean Air Act, after which air pollution was greatly reduced. So throughout the country up until the c 1960's factories and houses used coal fires which meant the air was badly polluted and buildings stained with soot. Many places have cleaned up polluted buildings but a lot remain as with the Scott Memorial.
Edinburgh - Scotland's Capital is known as "Auld Reekie" (old smoky) from the days when it was black with the smoke from coal and wood fires. It is also given the more complimentary title of Athens of the North due to the number of fine buildings with Grecian columns.
Including that unfinished (or rather barely started) building on Calton Hill.
Good video! Was so interesting to see your opinions about Edinburgh. I’m Scottish and always go to Edinburgh. Was cool seeing you explore places that I recognise, and sometimes take for granted
Once again great video guys!
To those interested: Dolly the sheep was basically cloned by obtaining the entire DNA from any cell of the body of the original sheep. This DNA was then inserted into the egg of a “donor” female sheep (original DNA in the egg was removed) using an ultra fine syringe like needle. This modified egg was then implanted into the uterus of the surrogate mother. If all goes well, couple months later a kid is born that is mostly identical to the original. I say mostly because the mitochondria (which is the powerhouse of the cell) also has its own DNA which is structurally similar to that of many bacteria. This mitochondrial DNA is then transferred from mother to all children; males do not transfer this DNA. Therefore, Dolly the sheep is actually is slightly different than the original because that mitochondrial DNA was that of the the egg cell.
Men are doomed. -E
Dolly was so called because the DNA was collected from the mammary gland of the mother sheep. I guess she had big mammaries like Dolly Parton? Anyway that's what the scientist said when asked why they named the clone Dolly.
With the older generation,places like London,Paris,Rome etc were what tourists visited,but now,thanks to "You-Tube",the world has broadened its horizons and places like,Edinburgh,Prague,Bucharest etc are begining to attract attention. Great clip folks!
Amazed at pre-photographic art!!!!!! Fabulous.
close but not quite ( ed-in-bur-A ). if you have the time you might enjoy these places in central scotland, Stirling castle,the wallace monument, the falkirk wheel also in falkirk the Kelpies and the remains of a roman wall ( all right its just a ditch now but its quite a nice ditch )
I love Edinburgh...but have never done that...great job on Edinbrah....thanks.x
Many of the locals would agree with you regarding the price of entry into the Castle. Not many Edinburgers have been inside the Castle. I was lucky, as my job was as a Registrar of Births Deaths and Marriages and I have performed weddings inside Edinburgh Castle. The only place I couldn't perform a ceremony was in St Margarets Chapel as only religious celebrants can perform ceremonies in religious buildings. Marriages are still performed in the Chapel with a few guests. Because Edinburgh is basically overrun with tourists, the council wanted to give something back to the locals. So for 2 days (usually a weekend in September) they have a "doors open" day. Whereby entry to all castles, museums, and many many other places of interest is free on those days. It allows us to appreciate the riches of our fair city.
Some of my fondest memories growing up is when my great aunt Betty would come to visit from Scotland, and she would always bring sweets with her. Tablet was one of them! I’m happy to see you trying all the things lol
The main bus company in Edinburgh is Lothian. If you go to the Travel shop at Waverley bridge you can get a day ticket ( £4.00 ). It is a scratch card where you just scratch of the day , month and year. It s valid on both the bus and tram and you just show it to the driver as you board the bus. It saves a lot of money if you want to nip on and off a lot.
Hey guys! As someone who lives in Edinburgh I want to say you both did a great job of explaining and seeing this amazing city. Obviously it was all the tourist sights and that is fine but all of the back streets with their hidden gems are also worth a look and not to mention the pubs and clubs 😀
I spent a week in Edinburgh, still not long enough! Love the video!
Edinburgh is such a cool looking city. I spent a week there before going on a road trip all around Scotland.
As a bus driver in edinburgh, the best advice I can give you is, ask, ask the driver to let you know where to get off, the driver does know how much money you put in, but you still need to specify what type of ticket you need, or if you need more than 1. There are travel shops around the city to buy passes and it would have been better value for you too.
Thank you guys.... Edinburgh seems to be very beautiful.... gorgeous architecture.
The movie "Mary Stuart queen of the Scots " makes me to travel to Scotland because l would like to visit the region and Edinburgh, Glasgow too
Lol, my neighborhood of Waverly, Baltimore, Maryland, USA was named after a book by that Sir Walter Scott monument fellow, along with a BUNCH of other places it would seem, a REALLY popular writer of his day!)
THATS SO COOL!
Hmm, I used to live in Farnham in the district of Waverley in Surrey. Named for nearby Waverley Abbey, founded by Cistercian monks back in 12th C, now a ruin after the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.
Possibly source for name of your town and Scott's novels. Farnham's a gorgeous, chocolate-box English town, castle and all. Train 55 mins to London, and not far from Jane Austen's cottage. Maybe worth a look if you ever visit England - though you'd have to report how it compares to Baltimore.
That tower looked like all it was missing was a giant emerald dragon perched on top of it 😍😍😍😍 I want to visit Scotland SO BADLY!!!
The best bit of the pasty is the "noggin" the crimped bit at the end. If it's of interest...pasties come from the South West from coal mines, reason for the crimping is that for the miners lunches in the olden days the wives made pasties with the crimped bit so that they could hold the pasties with their coal/arsenic hands without contaminating the pasty. Back then one half would be savoury, the other sweet. Pasties are numerous in the South West with various flavours.
Also.. did you manage to try cream teas whilst you were in the UK?
If you're local and over 60 you get buses free in Scotland. You get a card, you put it on the card reader and that's it. The glitz and glam if Edinburgh. I don't see it but then, it's my local city. I just go fir hospital visits, shopping or nights out. TBH, I see it as pretty shit lol
You've said it better than most Americans, thank you for helping our cause.
Really enjoyed this and learned a lot. Kyde and Eric are just fun, authentic travel companions. Kind of like good friends giving you an heads-up look at these places.
The blue tokens they gave you in Tesco are a thing they do with local charities. They have a box for each charity in the doorway and you put your token in to the one of your choice. Whichever one gets most tokens gets the biggest cut of the donation
I love Edinburgh,I’ve only been once & it was in the middle of August with glorious sunshine ☀️,it was wonderful. I really want to go back.
This is weird seeing people so surprised at stuff we see every day 😮
You're really not seeing Scotland at its best , absolutely stunning in the summer , a bit bleak in the winter though .
The north was still stunning. -E
I use the busses a lot and if I am going to somewhere I haven't been before I always go on google street view to look for landmarks first so that I don't need to be worried about missing my stop. Just a little advice for anyone planning to go to the UK. :) Also on most exact change buses you can ask for a change ticket which can be redeemed at the main stops information desk or used on another bus run by the same people.
Kyde's eaten things that make me woozy just looking at them. But bubble gum is her Kryptonite, LOL!
Haha it really is funny! -E
Followed a good few of your vlogs and like your enjoyment of the ‘old’ things. I also agree that charges are ‘ a rip off’ for the major sites. A tip - there are lots of old churches and buildings that are free. Get out into the Midlands sometime - we have a church near me that was founded in 680 AD ! Free to enter and surrounded by beautiful countryside.
Oh my god I was getting second hand claustrophobia watching you guys climb that monument.
The Wallace monument is the same.There is no room to move on the spiral staircase.
"The Scott Monument" is the original blueprint to thunderbird 3 :D
I much prefer the London transport system. No cash at all, but literally any credit/debit card will work. It's the cheapest method and it's always capped per day and per week so you don't even have to think about payment. Tap your bank card when you get on any bus/train/tram and never overpay or have to deal with change.
I'm going to have to agree with you. -E
Just came across your videos a couple weeks ago. Binge watching now...along with weescottishlass and joel and lia. love all you guys.
Glad you found us and are enjoying! -E
"....not seen anything like this in London" re. Scot memorial, did you miss the Albert memorial next to the Albert Hall??? Like this but clean and shiny.
Must have missed it. But the grit is part of what we mean about having not seen such things in London. -E
I wonder if they also missed 'The Monument' at the northern end of London Bridge? You can climb up inside that as well. It's a monument to the great fire of London in 1666, and is sited right where the fire started.
Dolly is named after Dolly parton because she was cloned from the mammory gland. I am from the town next to where it happened
Adorable couple and very entertaining as always. Love it! Please keep your videos coming :)
xParesh They are. Very chill couple. The right sort of people to go to Scotland in Winter.
I once asked what city was better, and got told that you would have more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding.
Sounds about right, hahahaha
Eh din burra
Easy way to read it
i was in Edinburgh, but made a big detour around Glasgow...
Said by someone who’s never been stabbed in glasgow or at a wedding in Embra
I never made it to Arthur's Seat but the view from Calton Hill is amazing and it's easier to get there.
I live in Scotland and I love it. The thing I hate most about it though is all the hills you need to walk to get around a town or city. But when you get away from the central belt in Scotland or the popular towns/cities then that’s when you get to the most beautiful parts of Scotland.
Yea! We recently uploaded some footage from Northern Scotland, it's stunning up there! -E
When you drop your money into the machine on the bus. All the cash is held in view betwen a flat metal plate and a glass screen. If you do not put enough in the driver can let you see the box and you can count the money held behind the glass. Once the ticket(s) are bought the coins are released into the money box below. Also if the fare had changed from £1.60 to £1.70 only the week before, there is usually a weeks amnesty when the fare increases for a week. Also there are two main shops just off Princes Street where you can buy, day passes, week passes, two week passes and for workers monthly or annual passes. You pass also gets you free rides on the trams.
It's funny listening to you talking about admission prices, especially for the castle, which I agree is exhorbitant. However, I can remember when it was only £0.20 to go up the Scott Monument and there were concerns that tourists thought that because it was so cheap there mustn't be anything worth seeing. So they doubled the price and have kept increasing it ever since.
Haha, funny.
You didn’t meet Scottish people at tourist sites, as the locals don’t go to them! Edinburgh is my second home.💖 Tablet is easy to make,
I make it every Christmas. What you tried had too many additives. It’s just butter, condensed milk and sugar, maybe a bit of vanilla.
The crumbles left over can be used to sweeten your coffee!
Edinburgh has indeed got some nice architecture.
Thanks for the upload
The Craigleith Sandstone attracts the particulates in the air and the monument is beside the railway station, so what you see is mostly from the old steam engines. A decision was made a while ago not to clean it for that reason.
Piemaker is fantastic, as well as super cheap. I used to work just down the street so it was a great 'grab lunch very fast' place, though not the healthiest place to regularly eat
Very much enjoyed this video, you have a new subscriber!
Awesome, glad you enjoyed! More from Scotland soon!
Thanks for uploading this, really enjoyed it. The miniature whisky bottle stuck to the tongue tickled me - I'm going to use that trick to carry extra beer bottles across the pub. :D
The One O'Clock Gun was very important for Britain in developing its maritime supremacy. All major ports within the Empire at one time had a gun which was sounded at one O'clock so that ships could accurately set their cronographs which played such an important role as an aid to navigation. Even though Edinburgh isn't right on the coast it's port Leith is less than 2 miles from the city centre.
Stumbled upon your video by accident and Im very glad I did. You guys are great, im glad you're enjoying visiting our beautiful little country. There's so much to see up north, I hope you have a couple more videos from your adventures in the Scottish Highlands :)
We will have more than a couple! Maybe even a few! -E
The Walter Scot monument reminds me of the Thunderbird 3 rocket in the Thunderbirds puppet show.
Hahaha
The bus drivers can see the amount of money that you’ve put into the machine (it has a glass screen on drivers side)
Oh and Edinburgh is pronounced Edinburu
My hometown
Robert M. Dunn I must come from a posher part then because I’ve NEVER said Edinbruh
I have never heard anyone say edinburu...
Are yees sure it’s no Edin-BRA??? Cos ah think it’s full o’ jumped up tits!!!😂😃😂
@@peterbell3172 It is Edinburra , nothing more nothing less . EdinBRA is for dickheads who cannot even pronounce their own home town , too much internet they use .
Try the pies and pasties with either Heinz Sauce /Ketchup or HP brown sauce.
Excellent video, I hope you enjoyed your time in Scotland! Try get to Edinburgh in August when the festival is on, it's absolutely crazy, very VERY busy and lots to see!
If you guys ever go back to Scotland you should take some down time on the islands. Colonsay is a comfy little island if you just want a quieter/slower pace for a day or two. Literally one hotel on the island and a brewery with like a population of 100'ish people or so. You can rent a bicycle and just explore the island and see the landscape and explore the ruins and other historical things.
Sounds nice! We do have some videos from the north on the way, but the only island we made it to (besides Great Britain, haha) was Isle of Sky. -E
Subscribed and glad I stumbled upon you guys. Seems like I've got a lot of videos to catch up on :)
Glad you found us! Yea, we have a few videos. -E
For the not being able to give out change situation: don't know if you were also talking about Glasgow because I've never used the buses there, but I assume that the major cities here are like that, but elsewhere isn't. In my town, bus drivers are perfectly able to provide change, same with the rest of the villages, towns, and cities in my whole county (Fife). I've only experienced the no-change situation in Edinburgh. Even the buses from here to Edinburgh don't have the no-change policy; it's only within the city. Don't know if any other cities do it.
hey there guys,,hope you enjoyed your trip to Edinburgh, loved watching you sample the local food ,,,yeah got to admit a bit to expensive for the castle,,was born in edinburgh yet only been in the castle once when I was a wee boy,totaly loved your vid folks,Edinburgh loves you,much apreciated,be safe on your travels folks,kc keith,edinburgh👍.peace.
Thanks, Keith! -E
Kyde and Eric . cheers folks,nice reply,thankyou,all the way from edinburghhhh lol folks,be safe now,peace,pure respect,👍.kc keith,Scotland Edinburgh.
You don't eat a whole bar of tablet. You would have a small square after dinner like a piece of fudge rather than a bar. And yes there is a card system for the bus. You can buy them with a certain number of journeys or for a week, a month, a year. Most people have a subscription. Fun fact bus travel is free for retired people. You get a concession card so you can ride the bus services for free and coaches for a reduced fee of £1 (reservation fee).
That card doesn't seem good for people only in town a couple of days. -E
Scotland in the winter? Whatever were you thinking? What possessed you? Having thought about it for a moment, your so interested and interesting, perhaps the weather is a little secondary to the experiences you share together and with us.
We like to see real things, and winter was real. So would be summer of course, but it doesn't discount the value of seeing winter too. -E
Anytime you are in a bus in the UK just ask the driver to teall you when to get off when you order your ticket. Bus drivers love to be helpful and they love your smiles.
The issue being that as visitors we wanted to sit up top to watch the scenery as well. A sign or announcement would be ideal. -E
@@kydeanderic They will shout the destination. Not many buses outside London run the fancy destination system. Leeds has it, Manchester is getting it (we already have it on the tram system). Unfortunately London gets more money to spend on transport infrastructure than the rest of the country so we are slower to catch up with newer transport technologies. I'm glad you enjoyed your time here (apart from the last 2 weeks) and hope to see you back here again soon.
wow I'm shocked that the sausage roll tasted like a hot dog inside. I've never had one like that before. Most sausasge rolls are just filled with sausage meat and some spices, kinda like the scotch pie. How odd.
Maybe we've never had a proper hotdog before. -E
Yes, a sausage roll doesn't actually have a sausage in it, it has sausage meat, minced seasoned pork.
their right you know , thats no sausage roll to us , not proper , you should have went to Greggs lol
It really tastes nothing like a hotdog
I hadn't see your channel before and for whatever reason it was suggested on my UA-cam homepage. I'm from Edinburgh and like others have said, it's really interesting to see how other people experience Edinburgh for the first time! Also I've never tried a pastie from Piemaker before so I might pick one up this afternoon. Thanks guys!
Enjoy it! -E
In London, a lot of transport now allows credit or debit cards with contactless technology to be used just like any Oyster Card. Note - always use the same card to take advantage of daily and weekly caps on total fares charged. If you register the contactless (or Oyster) card on www.tfl.gov.uk, you can even see your journey history and costs, and claim refunds for missed Touch Ins or Touch Outs. This must be available outside of London, but don't know how widespread this is yet.
Yea, London's bus system was amazing. -E
come to Aberdeen we are lovely its the furthest north you can go before entering the highlands
We were there briefly! In our most recent video, but we didn't film much there. -E
Live here my home town proud to be scottish
Sausage rolls are superb but you have to dip them in HP sauce, (in my opinion)for it to work. Another great video, thanks for posting.
HP *fruity* !
You can buy sausage rolls with Hp sauce I. Them at Asda
What's HP sauce? :)
keandric a spicy sauce made from ketchup vinegar and molasses. HP stands for houses of parliament.
HP sauce invented by a grocer in Nottingham (my home town) who also owned a breakfast bar. He said as a promotional that "this is the sauce they eat in the houses of parliament" it caught on - HP Sauce.
I love you guys , thank you for coming to Edinburgh , i am from Edinburgh born and bred and from day one i have loved this place and never stopped loving it , its a pity you didnt visit Rosslyn Chapel thats just outside of Edinburgh to name one thing of many , i hope your journey north goes well for you , it may touch your soul ..
The buses are primarily designed for the locals who know whats what , they used to give you change but a re-think changed all that , at the bus stop there is a graphic showing you stops and if you ask the driver to tell you when your stop comes he will do , i think tourists should know these things if they are travelling on public transport , i live here and even i get off the wrong stop sometimes when going into an unfamiliar part of town ,.
last time and i,ll stop annoying you , did you touch the big meteor in the museum ?
Didn't find the meteor, no! Sounds neat!
its in the room with the rare fluorescent minerals and crystal rocks and such ,huge it is standing in the floor about a foot and a half round , i make a point to touch it when i go to the museum , touching space n all .
Such an awesome video!!!!! Thanks so much guys I loved it!!!! 😍😍😍😍
Can't believe you let Eric talk you into paying to visit the castle - our biggest tourist attraction and our biggest rip-off. We're members of Historic Scotland (the organisation that owns Edin. Castle) and even though we get in for free, we still end up paying a fortune for.... who knows what! LOL. I'd recommend Stirling Castle which is by far the BEST day out in Scotland. Hope you enjoyed your time - unlucky with the weather; we've had it stunningly hot this year.
We visited in March so the weather wasn't hot, but now we are in Tokyo where it is hot! Haha. -E
The card for the busses and trams is called a ridacard and can be purchased in the Lothian travel shop
Great videos guys, I loved it!
In West Yorkshire the driver gives change but you can also buy day tickets (really good value) or use an app.
Fun fact. People do live in the castle, families of those stationed at the castle
If anyone who's not from Scotland sees this comment just to say I'm from Scotland and Scotland's amazing (this comment is for people who aren't from scotland ONLY!)👍😊😊❤️
Guys you are Hilarious!!!
Thanks for Brightening my days Fantastic!
Glad you enjoyed!
At 29:26 i'm thinking you should have been looking at those hidden green roofs straight in front of you and gaining information off that board over Kyde's shoulder, about the plants they have planted and the wildlife that visits.
Hi guys David here a scot living in London those dirt look buldens are made of a soft stone that gets very dirty they sandblast them clean and they get dirty again but thank you for sharing it David
If ever you get the chance, visit Edinburgh during the Fringe
So sad everywhere is closed right now, I miss a pie or sausage roll 😍😍
Brit trivia for you, Barr's used to do doorstep deliveries of soda, the same as the milkmen that were a common sight in the UK.
The no change on buses thing is to prevent the driver getting attacked. If they don't have access to the money they can't be forced in to handing it over.
Agree bus services are a mess in lots of areas. Maggie Thatcher deregulated and privatised them because she was a free market fanatic. Before that each city or local authority had their own bus company with integrated timetables and a conductor on every bus who'd take your fare or check your ticket the same as on the trains. Contactless credit/debit card payments are starting to come in on buses so I can't see Oyster extending out of London. Might not be so useful if you don't have a UK bank account though
Here is the solution to change being made here in Japan. ua-cam.com/video/qEO32tc323o/v-deo.html
Beautiful city!! Fantastic Football team in Gorgie. Small team in Leith.
glad you liked my city guys
Bus travel can be confusing. Two or more independent bus companies can cover the same area each with their own prices and ticket types. Trying to work out the cheapest fare can be a nightmare as it will depend on your journey, number of passengers, time of year, time of day, your age and ticket type. Most companies offer discount prices for things like return journeys, all-day travel and group travel. However, with some companies you have to specifically ask for these whereas others automatically calculate it for you and deduct it from your smart ticket (if you have one). Some tickets can be used with more than one bus operator (and on trams and trains) and some cannot. Some tickets can be purchased from the driver and some cannot. Some tickets can be purchased in advance and some cannot. Some operators give you change and some do not. And every time you visit a different city/area you have to research the ticketing policy and ticket types on the internet before you go. Just to confuse things, some local authorities offer cheap all-day tickets for travel on all buses/trains within their area (such as the Derbyshire Wayfarer). Also, you can sometimes buy a really cheap bus ticket for all-day travel at your destination when you buy a train ticket online.
Haha, yea, it could use some simplification. -E