What The Dickins: West End & Dean

In a few months August will be here again and Edinburgh’s International Festival and Fringe Festival will arrive in our city transforming it into the world’s largest stage for the greatest arts festival in the world! Thousands of performers take to hundreds of stages all over the city to present shows…

There’s something wonderfully relaxing about being on holiday and having the time to curl up with a good book. However, there’s often a struggle to find the space to bring enough books to last your holiday. If that’s the case, Dickins has several beautiful Edinburgh holiday lets that are a…

May is whisky month here in Scotland and we want to honour our beautiful national drink with a blog post and a competition, so we turned to Usquabae Bar & Restaurant since we are no whisky experts. Usquabae that means ‘water of life’ in Gaelic is a sophisticated and atmospheric establishment…

There’s no hiding the fact that we simply love Edinburgh and feel incredibly lucky to live in Scotland’s Capital. Every season has its merits, but our personal favourite is most definitely, Autumn. With the city bathed in warm light, the trees mixed shades of auburn and green and the cobbled…

Welcome to our new blog What The Dickins: A Tale of Edinburgh City. We are ridiculously excited about it. Why? Because there are so many amazing things to do in Edinburgh and we now have a place where we can share them with you! Essentially, it’s going to be a…