Festival Edinburgh: I’ve only stayed in Edinburgh a couple of weeks over the years and only one of these was during the annual festival. Ten years ago in 2013 we were invited to share a flat for a week a short walk from the city centre with half a dozen of the family of my younger son’s wife who I think were all Scottish.
I’ve written a little about the week on My London Diary with rather a lot of pictures. We did go to a lot of events and performances, some together rather more on our own as our interests are different and there were so many things to choose from. But we also spent a lot of time walking around the city and surrounding areas.
It was a busy week and we enjoyed it. But I’ve not felt it something I particularly wanted to do another year, once seemed enough.
The pictures here are from one day of that week, Tuesday 13th Aug 2013. It wasn’t a typical day as there were no typical days for us that week.
Here’s the short text from My London Diary about what we did that day:
“I walked to the Nam June Paik exhibition, the visual arts high note of the festival, while Linda went to a concert. After that I went to hear poet Danny Chivers giving a great fringe performance. Linda and I grabbed some lunch from a street stall and then walked up Calton Hill and across to Arthurs Seat, rushing back to see a one-man play on the fringe, and after taking a few pictures along the High St before dinner.”
But I think the pictures probably make it rather clearer, certainly if you look at the larger set on My London Diary.
Many more pictures from the week at Edinburgh & the Festival and from the Tuesday here.