Why there really isn’t an off-season for Edinburgh

For centuries, Edinburgh, Scotland’s elegant and lively seat of power, has been admired by native sons and foreigners alike. “Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence,” Robert Louis Stevenson remarked.
Visitors of all stripes imagined themselves living there. Charlotte Bronte loved it. So did Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, who wrote in 1938 that the city “will make a delightful summer capital when we invade Brit