{"id":15147,"date":"2023-08-13T09:08:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T08:08:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=15147"},"modified":"2023-08-07T09:14:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T08:14:04","slug":"festival-edinburgh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-photo.co.uk\/?p=15147","title":{"rendered":"Festival Edinburgh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Festival Edinburgh<\/strong>: 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tourists photograph the sign saying J K Rowling wrote some of her first Harry Potter book here. I’ve not read it<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Old College, the University of Edinburgh<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Nam June Paik show in the College gallery<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Street theatre<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Calton Hill<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Canongate Kirk<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Here’s the short text from My London Diary about what we did that day: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“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.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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The quick path down from Arthur’s Seat<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

But I think the pictures probably make it rather clearer, certainly if you look at the larger set on My London Diary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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More on the street<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Victoria Street<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Many more pictures from the week at Edinburgh & the Festival<\/a> and from the Tuesday here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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