Four hours in Edinburgh

At 12:36 my friend and I will arrive in Edinburgh from Fort William.
At 16:30 my friend and I will leave Edinburgh for London.

What should we do in the intervening time?

Go to the newly-restored National Portrait Gallery; it's awesome (and near the train station!).

If it's cold but sunny go to the camera obscura. It seems a bit expensive but it has other stuff in there to amuse.

Have a white hot chocolate at chocolate soup on hunter square.

*makes way for the list of pubs you can visit instead*

LIKE.
I love that place.

Ooh, that could be handy!

Hmm, I do like that kinda stuff. Shall investigate!

I assume this is a hot chocolate made using white chocolate, rather than a hot chocolate that's white hot

The chocolate soup shop is ACE!!! Don't go in with a full stomach though!

it's enough time, weather permitting, to get to arthur seat, quick-march up, admire the view and have a post-summit pint.

is chocolate soup only in Edinburgh? good place.

I go there for breakfast porridge every time I'm in town

I think it is - They were starting to expand/franchise a few years back but had to close their other outlets when the economic downturn hit.

However, Hunter Sq was the original and best of them - The others were very basic by comparison.

Go to Glasgow

DO NOT go to that Costa Coffee just off Princes Street (princes mall) like I did, it's expensive n crappy as per, but the fuckers don't even have a toilet for customers! At least McDonalds treat ya with some dignity...

Good shout on the portrait gallery. Another possibility is to find somewhere with Innis & Gunn on tap n drink lots of that

WTF!? I'll be visiting soon if I tell the Mr!

Bump! I'm not interested in any touristy things, so could anyone recommend a good record shop and any pubs? For pubs I'd rather not have to go to one full of yank tourists. Ta.

There's a few record shops about: Avalanche in the Grassmarket (focuses on scottish indie), Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk (2nd hand book/record shop) and backbeat records on East Crosscauseway (literally boxes and boxes of vinyl, but the guy doesn't let you rake through it - you have to ask him what you're after ). There's also Unknown Pleasures down the bottom of the Royal Mile.

Pubs: Halfway House right behind the train station: real ale, beardy dudes, and a faint smell of urine
Brauhaus on Tollcross, they have abeer menu with 300 different beers or so
The Royal Oak - old men and folk music

My brother works for Innis & Gunn. Free beer

That sounds plenty, ta mate!

Go and drink whisky in the Bow Bar on West Bow