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Pubs and poems | Edinburgh literary pub tour review

The Edinburgh Literary Pub Tour combines beers in historic Edinburgh pubs with stories about Robert Burns, Sir Walter Scott and Robert Louis Stevenson. Poetry in the Beehive Inn, Grassmarket In the upstairs room of the Beehive Inn on Edinburgh’s Grassmarket, a gathered crowd sits utterly…

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Vailima, Robert Louis Stevenson's house in Samoa.

Vailima, Samoa: Visiting Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave

Robert Louis Stevenson in Samoa Visiting Robert Louis Stevenson’s grave is quite the trek. Somewhat surprisingly, the Scottish author is buried in the Pacific nation of Samoa. Stevenson, who wrote the likes of Treasure Island and Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde, was a sickly chap…

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