High 5: Steve Mitchell

STEVE MITCHELL, a Leith Festival organiser and Leith Museum campaigner, lists his most thought-provoking places in Edinburgh.

1 Deacon Brodie's Tavern, Royal Mile In a window thinking – where next? The Castle; the Palace; the Museum; the Library; the Parliament? Or just thinking: was Brodie really executed?

2 The Ross Bandstand – thinking when will the council start using this criminally neglected, idyllically set venue properly?

3 Poet's Glen, Pentlands – thinking Scots literature; RLS knew this water; Sir Walter Scott too. And Edinburgh's bard Fergusson wrote of it as it reached its end

4 The prom between Silverknowes and Cramond - thinking Scottish engineering; the horizon filled with the iconic Forth Bridge, spanning not just the river but engineering history.

5 The Shore, Leith - thinking: 'Oh wad some pow'r, The Custom House gi'e us, For a Leith Museum, Whaur a' could see us'.