Life's about experiences. These are mine.
Our last full day in Edinburgh was the usual frenetic activities followed by and a couple of hours of wondering what to do. It would be hard to fill your day completely and knackering too so you are left with pockets of time sat in coffee shops waiting to move on. It is also quite …
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With so many shows on at the Fringe you take a bit of a punt of what you might like to see and hope it turns out for the best. Today we managed a 66.6% success rate I would say. I paid for this! Our first show, held in the back room of a pub, …
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Our first full day and a morning to fill until our first booked event so we wandered over to the book festival site. We’d already checked before coming up if there were any events that coincided with our time here but sadly there were not. However, it is still an interesting place to visit and …
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Edinburgh has got it all going on in August which is why we keep coming back. The International Festival, International Book Festival, Fringe Festival, The West End Fair and the Military Tattoo, and we’ve pretty much done them all with the exception of the latter. I think that this is our fourth time in Edinburgh …
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I thought that I hadn’t been to the National Museum of Scotland before but as soon as we were inside I recognised it. From a dark and oppresive entrance it opens out into a vast light and airy space. It is a beautiful place packed with interesting objects. However, it is a right old maze …
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We must have been to Edinburgh more than half a dozen times and after so many visits we are still finding new things to see and do. I’m not sure why we have never been to The Elephant House before because it does tick all the boxes for us: Tea & coffee ✓, Caramel Shortbread …
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When we arrived in Edinburgh on Monday I started to see ads on the side of buses for a Ray Harryhausen exhibition and I thought “ooh that would be good to go to”. This happened once before in 2015 when Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art had on a Roy Litchenstein exhibition. Next my thoughts …
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Second day and the sun is still shining! We had a couple of shows booked today but the first one wasn’t until lunchtime. That’s the thing about the Fringe – nothing much gets going until the afternoon leaving you the mornings free to explore the city. Having been to Edinburgh on numerious occasions we have …
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