Earlier in the year someone said - 'Let's take full advantage of the festival season'. It seemed like a good idea at the time - so we have been at home in Edinburgh for all of August, and to be honest it has not been a bad month.
With a little encouragement and instruction from the boss, I managed to find a reasonable mix of theatre, music, comedy and other events for us to attend - and a couple of good restaurants in amongst the street food.
There were only two events which could be classed as bad choices, while most of the rest were in the excellent category including a great new musical called 'Buried' about 2 serial killers, and some exceptional stand-up from Marcus Brigstocke, Jay Lafferty and of course Frankie Boyle. Cora Bisset's play - 'What girls are made of' - was one of Linda's favourites, while the NYO Jazz orchestra was probably the musical highlight.
However, I now understand the attitude of some of our neighbours to the entire event - journey times across the city are a least 50% longer, it's almost impossible to move freely anywhere between George Street and the High Street, and the queues to get a drink....... It may be boom time for lots of local businesses but I can see that the proposed visitor tax will probably get nodded through on a show of hands
However September is upon us and there are signs that Autumn is fast approaching so we are off on our travels again today - an evening flight to Heathrow and onward through the night to Cape Town.
Spring in the Western Cape should give us some amazing floral displays in the fynbos and reportedly huge numbers of whales off the southern coast. There may be a bottle of wine or two along the way and who knows what interesting fellow travellers we may meet - watch this space.
With a little encouragement and instruction from the boss, I managed to find a reasonable mix of theatre, music, comedy and other events for us to attend - and a couple of good restaurants in amongst the street food.
There were only two events which could be classed as bad choices, while most of the rest were in the excellent category including a great new musical called 'Buried' about 2 serial killers, and some exceptional stand-up from Marcus Brigstocke, Jay Lafferty and of course Frankie Boyle. Cora Bisset's play - 'What girls are made of' - was one of Linda's favourites, while the NYO Jazz orchestra was probably the musical highlight.
However, I now understand the attitude of some of our neighbours to the entire event - journey times across the city are a least 50% longer, it's almost impossible to move freely anywhere between George Street and the High Street, and the queues to get a drink....... It may be boom time for lots of local businesses but I can see that the proposed visitor tax will probably get nodded through on a show of hands
However September is upon us and there are signs that Autumn is fast approaching so we are off on our travels again today - an evening flight to Heathrow and onward through the night to Cape Town.
Spring in the Western Cape should give us some amazing floral displays in the fynbos and reportedly huge numbers of whales off the southern coast. There may be a bottle of wine or two along the way and who knows what interesting fellow travellers we may meet - watch this space.
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