Edinburgh is one of the most walkable cities in Britain, and I mean that in a specific way rather than as a generic compliment. You can genuinely walk almost anywhere in it, if you are prepared to. From the Meadows to the foot of Leith is roughly an hour on foot, and that distance is entirely doable if the mood takes you. The real question is not whether you can walk it. It is whether what you are looking for is somewhere along the way. That question is the whole point of thi