Edinburgh, Scotland, 2018 - Jan & Jan-Jan's Rejseklubben

The Royal Mile is a succession of streets forming the main thoroughfare of the Old Town of the city of Edinburgh in Scotland. The term was first used descriptively in W M Gilbert's Edinburgh in the Nineteenth Century (1901), 'with its Castle and Palace and the royal mile between', and was further popularised as the title of a guidebook, published in 1920. From the Castle gates to the Palace gates the street is almost exactly a mile (1.6 km) long and runs downhill between two significant locations in the royal history of Scotland, namely Edinburgh Castle and Holyrood Palace, hence its name. The streets which make up the Royal Mile are (west to east) Castlehill, the Lawnmarket, the High Street, the Canongate and Abbey Strand. The Royal Mile is the busiest tourist street in the Old Town, rivalled only by Princes Street in the New Town. Today, the Royal Mile is an eclectic mix of shops, restaurants, pubs and visitor attractions. During the annual Edinburgh Festival, the High Street becomes crowded with tourists, entertainers and buskers. Parliament Square is at the heart of Scotland's legal system, being the home of both the High Court of Justiciary and the Court of Session. The Royal Mile features a number of shops owned by the company Gold Brothers, including Heritage of Scotland, The Scotland Shop, Heritage of Clearance, The Wee Scotland Shop, Dunedin and John Morrison's Kiltmakers. The company was fined for 'misleading' customers by claiming the products imported from China were 'made in Scotland'.