Location

Transreal Fiction, 7 Cowgatehead, Edinburgh, EH1 1JY

In the heart of Edinburgh’s old town; you can see the castle from the doorway.

Cowgatehead is half a mile from Waverley Station, a quarter mile from a multi-story carpark, and on a bus route (the #2) with several more routes close by, so it’s very central and also near several of Edinburgh’s best known tourist attractions.

Greyfriars Bobby – 200 yards

Greyfriars Church & churchyard – 200 yards

The Royal Scottish Museum &

The Royal Museum of Scotland – 250 yards

Magdalene Chapel – 100 yards

The Grassmarket – 50 yards – and it’s full of restaurants and pubs if you want something to eat!

Some of my neighbouring shops also have interesting stock. The long established  Mr Wood’s Fossils is on one side and FabHatrix, an independent designer hat shop, is a couple of doors along on the other side. And there’s a comic shop just round the corner as well.

So there’s plenty in the neighbourhood to do as well as visit Transreal Fiction! Check out the Grassmarket Traders’ Association website or our links page for more details.

Maps

Find Transreal Fiction and Cowgatehead on these maps

Google Street View

(taken Summer 2008; the nearby Grassmarket roadworks are finished now; #5 Cowgatehead is actually the shop on the right)

· Multimap

http://www.grassmarket.net/mapsanddirections.asp

(it’s not as good a map as it was; zoom in and drag so you see a bit more of the right hand side. The shop is right under the ‘gate’ of Cowgatehead!

And once you’ve found it the opening hours are:

Monday – Friday 11.00 – 18.00
Saturday 10.00 – 18.00
Sundays (August & Christmas only) 12.00 – 17.00