Manchester/Scotland 2025 - Edinburgh Dean Village

 

It was hard to tell when we reached Dean Village. There wasn't a very clear sign pointing you to the place. Probably because this is a residential area more than a tourist attraction, and it was considered one of the hidden gem of Edinburgh. I wanted to come here mainly for the river view. The place we ended up with was Belford Road. There was a church nearly, and some sakura trees too, so we briefly got distracted there. We knew we were nearby, but some places just takes faith to find them!

And by faith I meant that you have to have faith and bravely walked into small alley that seems to lead to someone else's apartment area! Lol. I don't know if this is the official way people usually ended up in Dean Village, but it was definitely ours! We had to walk in via some residential area, and we found these yellow looking Tudor buildings. It kinda looked like a village housing, yet they were concrete, and well, looked like a modern themed apartment.

Walking by them, and finding some stone stairs that seems to lead downwards, we eventually found the river! I believe it was called the Water of Leith, and the was a Waterway that you could follow that lead you all teh way to Leith! That's another place I wish I have more time and money to explore! 

The apartment view, with the bridge and the water below. This alone was already beautiful!

Here is the view from the other side of the review, more apartments. But I've saved the best for last. The view wasn't from either side of the river, it was from the middle of the river looking up!

And here is the morning sunrise view of Dean Village. Yes, I know it's a bit bright to see the beauty, but I will have more photos below. I just wanted to show you the sun ray shinning on the river. And yes, you could make your way all the way to the river to take your photo, or just stay on the bridge or side of it I recommend you just go down the river bank cause the angle is so much better there, and you get better wider view of the river and the buildings. 

Here you go, a nice sleepier photo of Dean Village. It's very old village feel to it. Calm and peaceful. Almost french :P Like perhaps Belle could have lived here, and maybe do her laundry by the river?

The clouds and sky was fabulous that day. 

It almost looked like a painting, doesn't it?

I am not sure if above is still at the same site, but it's definitely the same river! You could see my husband walking up the slope. We were looking to see how to start out walk into the Water of Leith Waterway. I can't say the signs were that helpful. But with the help of Google Map, we eventually found ourselves on the right path.

You little sneaky sign! 

Us at the bank of the river at Dean Village.

Just me with my sun ray <3