Linda Bates of Edinburgh's Mercat Tours talks us through their immersive walk through the city's dark history
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00:00I am a storyteller here at Merkitt Tours and this year we're celebrating our 40th anniversary.
00:07We started with History Walks on the Royal Isle on the 1st of July 1985.
00:12And to celebrate that, we're innovating.
00:15We've got new things to add to make it a multi-sensory experience for you.
00:19Not only are you seeing the sights of the old town,
00:23downstairs in the vaults below Southbridge,
00:26you're going to be smelling things as well.
00:28Leather, wood smoke, candle wax.
00:31And hearing things, the noise of the tavern,
00:34hammering of the workshops that were down there as well.
00:38The sickly cry of an infant who was living down there.