4 things not to do when visiting Edinburgh

Dont rub the Boabie!!!

When I saw Bobby's grave it broke my heart ❤❤

We all love bobby xx could we pay to touch bobby xx then we could pay for a new nose xx bobby is close to my ❤️

That's what da said

Good man

Thanks Tony. I totally agree with the #4. There is a "#4" in almost every city in the world where you do not do that "thing that ALL tourists do." Just...... don't be that tourist! Keep up the great stuff Tony. Thanks!

The toughest thing for me when I visited Scotland was driving on the opposite side of the road lol. It was really challenging. I did figure out how to say Edinburgh correctly before I went to Scotland.
I was warned not to go to an old man’s pub but somehow ended up in one in Dunbar and was adopted by a local group of folks my age and we were up singing at the top of our lungs in the back of the pub till the wee hours of the night. I never saw that group again but we had a blast! They were locals but I was happy they took me under their wing that night. I traveled alone and never felt an ounce of danger the entire time I was there.

I visited Scotland in 2006 and LOVED it so much. I never bought a kilt but would want to buy the correct one for my last name not some guess. I DID buy some gorgeous handmade locally weaved ponchos/wraps/blankets at the gift shop at Sir Walter Scots home and they were costly but beautiful and I still have them to this day and they are lovely.

Oops I rubbed his nose. Sorry. I didn't know about it till the person I was with said it's s thing. Definitely will remember this next time. Sorry.

these ones annoy me as well!

Hi Tony, I watch all your videos and enjoy every one. Before you told everyone 'not to rub Bobby's nose', I hang my head in shame because I used to rub his nose myself. I'm genuinely sorry. Gordon Taylor, Methil, Fife.

Not am enjoyable video,, I am Scottish near Edinburgh, what a lot of piddle

I was living in the Canongate when the movie was being made many many years ago. It was very exciting. Some of the children the street were in the movie as urchins. Ppl were quite poor and the children didn’t need costumes they just wore their normal cloths. Now the area is quite posh. Not tenements anymore.

Phew! Made it to the end and I’m not guilty of any of these. Love Edinburgh! Had a look at the wee dog and it was surrounded by tourists touching it’s nose ;-)

I am visiting Edinburgh more often now that the weather is improving. A few weeks ago, before discovering this channel, I was heading to Greyfriars kirk and witnessed 2 young girls ( twins I think ) about 8 year old climbed on booby's plinth and both rubbing the statues nose vigorously like it was Aladdin's lamp. No genie appeared but I really saw a red mist. Instant anger. The kids I can forgive but they were being egged on by their adults for the sake of a video.

Edinburrow makes me 😬

Whit aboot Edinbruh. Not just Americans many Scot’s can’t say Edinburgh correctly including broadcasters. De ye hear me BBC Scotland

A few comments with respect. ONE: maybe YOU SCOTS should lighten up on your pronunciation of EDINBURGH, since it is YOU WHO pronounce it WRONG, given the spelling. So, since YOU insist on calling it one way that does not match the spelling, maybe instead of criticizing tourists who may spend three whole days in the city, and who MISTAKENLY THINK THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE does not mean BORO when it spells it BURGH, you could be FAR less judgmental. NOTE: you TOO SAY PittsBURGH, the way it is spelled. If I were traveling to a nation that spoke a different language I might investigate pronunciation, but why would you do that in an English speaking nation and MORE, WHY would you expect those always critical of the USA, to display such silly nonsense? IF YOU DO NOT LIKE HOW OTHERS PRONOUNCE THE NAME, SPELL IT RIGHT. TWO: I LOVE THE TALE OF GREYFRIARS BOBBY, BUT YOUR COMPLAINT IS EVEN SILLIER, GIVEN YOUR OWN VIDEO! You show an Asian man rubbing Bobby’s nose! OBVIOUSLY THE TALE HAS VERY WIDE DISTRIBUTION! Complaining about a world wide fantasy belief is “punching waves with the expectation of turning back the oceans”. This is wasted effort and frustrating for NO RESULT! INSTEAD, why not simply wrap a nice thick piece of plexiglass around Bobby, AFTER RESTORING THE NOSE? TOO MANY MERE COMPLAINTS….. NOT ENOUGH PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS! Complaining is easy…. Fixes require effort.

I've shouted a few times - dinnae touch the boaby.

Dinnae no step on the heart!

Great info again, 👍

I do not say Edinburgh like Pittsburgh. We do have an Edinburg in South Texas that is pronounced like Pittsburgh. Also, I feel your angst, because non-Texans especially those people on TV who don't take the time to learn how to pronounce names of cities and rivers in Texas. Ugh!

Awww man, when I was about 3 or 4 I used to pass Bobby every morning on my way to nursery and give him a kiss and a cuddle. That was 50 years ago and I still glow inside when I see a picture of his statue.

Bobby was stolen about 1998, thats the replacement.

Not Edinburg nor Edinbrough

The hat and wig combo just seems a bit demeaning... I feel like me wearing one is mocking people. I totally understand why locals don't love them.
burg, burgh and borough... they share roots obviously. But always say a city name as the locals do when you can. Just respectful. I visited Sarajevo in 2012, and found that I said it with one more syllable than most locals and I adjusted. Sar-aye-vo rather than Sara-yay-vo... it was actually something sort of in between the two, but you get the idea.

Agree 😊

Rubbing the wee dogs nose does not bring you good luck, Everyone knows you have to sniff his butt for good luck.

Hey, Tony, London is abused daily by tourists. The king's guard always gets abused by idiots who don't read traditions up. Just be grateful it's only about 4 to 5 things. We English have become massively abused by people's who do not respect themselves or anything

And I’m from Gettysburg (Pronounced Gettis Berg). But we will be respective of the proper pronunciation of Edinburgh.

Ur great and I’ve been to the mash shop because of u but why do u look at yourself instead of us when filming? It’s quite disconcerting

Please when wearing a Kilt. Pleats to the back. Not the front.

Thank you for the information. Coming this month, can't wait!

Extremely important to be respectful when you are visiting a city. 100% with you Tony and thank you for sharing this valuable information with all of us. I really appreciate it..

I have just bought a kilt a week ago.I did exactly that .I knelt down to measure with a tape measure .When my kilt came perfect fit.👍

I lived in Edinburgh in the 1980s and worked part time in a number of hotels. I rarely managed to get Americans to correctly pronounce the name of our capital city. Another thing to avoid is walking on the Heart of Midlothian set in the pavement outside St Giles’ Cathedral in the Royal Mile. Personally I wouldn’t patronise any of the shops there: they sell nothing but tartan tat which certainly isn’t made in Scotland. Nor do I know when people started touching Greyfriar Bobby’s nose: it wasn’t done when I lived in Edinburgh.

I have zero patience with people touching the Boaby. I will bark loudly at anyone I see touching the Boaby when I am near him and I am almost 2 meters tall and over 100kg, so dinae touch the Boaby or you might have me to answer to! Most of my life the wee dug had a lovely black patina nose and in the last 20 years its been ruined by people touching it. Big thanks to Tony for having this bug bear too and educating a wider audience than my mad rants around the statue will ever have ;)

Just found your channel and subscribed. Great video.

Another thing not to do in Scotland is don't call the people 'scotch' when they are Scottish.

Absolutely love this video. I'm from Mull and have an absolute passion about all of these things. Daft cheap kilts, jimmy hats (totally insulting), mispronunciation of our capital city's name and our second city....it's not Glascow!!!
And definitely DO NOT RUB BOBBY

I made the mistake of touching Bobby's nose in 2018, but I have restrained since! I often ponder if I could bring a metal sealant to protect Bobby's nose...we have some fancy wheel polishes and the such in the U.S. i would also say: treat waitstaff and bartenders/staff properly even though tipping is not common. And tip anyway!

Nice restraint on the dude touching Greyfriars Bobby. As an American who watched a lot of videos like this before coming to Edinburgh, I too had a little freak out moment when I saw how many people were doing it.

As usual, an awesome video. Great info for tourist to know. I to have incurred the look of disdain when I told a group of tourist to stop rubbing the nose. The city needs to raise Bobby up a fee more feet out of reach of tourist.

Instead of rubbing Greyfriars Bobby's nose try rubbing his arse - it's a proven cure for haemeroids.

I visited last year and (thankfully) didn't do any of the things on your list :)

I was born in Edinburgh, live in Bc I remember how I learned to spell my home land where I was born … here it is Edward die in November buried under Robert graham’s house lol .. Oh when we were there last year I found my nanny’s house on the Royal mile and big blue door and I hugged it so as my grandparents lived there and my nanny brought my mom home after she was born

Loving your educational vids of Edinburgh.
Watching these videos really makes me miss it there so much. We have visited twice to the city and surrounding areas.
Hoping to bring my mom back next year. ❤

Thank you! Seriously!