The Best Day Trips from Edinburgh

An hour from Edinburgh gets you an astonishing amount. Beaches, volcanic hills with a whale's jawbone on top, a tidal island you can walk to, a gannet colony offshore, castles by the sea and a museum full of aeroplanes. All of it is doable between breakfast and dinner.

We've picked out our favourite day trips from the city, from the East Lothian coast to the hills to the south. Every one of them gets you out of Edinburgh and back in time for a late supper.